David Solomon Sassoon was the owner of one of the most impressive private collections of Hebrew manuscripts. Among his manuscripts was an early and complete Hebrew Bible, which was called the Codex ...

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BEDFORD, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The 1,100-year-old Sassoon Codex, the oldest, most complete Hebrew Bible in private hands, is scheduled for auction at Sotheby’s on May 17, 2023. The Sassoon Codex is ...

The Codex Sassoon, which measures 12 by 14 inches, dates to the late ninth or early tenth century. Sotheby's At more than 1,000 years old, the Codex Sassoon is the world’s earliest near-complete ...

An ancient Hebrew Bible, which is more than 1000 years old, is being sold at auction. The Codex Sassoon is "the earliest, most complete text of its kind," auction house Sotheby's said. It's estimated ...

The "Codex Sassoon," an ancient Hebrew Bible written in the late 9th or early 10th century, was purchased Wednesday at Sotheby’s in New York City for $38.1 million. For the record: The price for "The ...

The oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible, described as “one of the most important and singular texts in human history,” has become the most valuable manuscript ever to be sold at an auction. The ...

The earliest, most complete Hebrew bible ever discovered is being sold at auction Wednesday at Sotheby's in New York City. It's estimated to go for between $30 and $50 million. MARISA MAZRIA KATZ: In ...

In the context of the 9th century, the biblical text was an expensive undertaking requiring well over 100 animal skins, 400 sheets of parchment, and countless hours of labor as an expert scribe ...

The Bible may be the world’s most produced book, but there are few—if any—quite like the Codex Sassoon. Produced by a single, unknown scribe in the Levant around 1,100 years ago, it disappeared for ...

The renowned late-19th and early 20th-century collector of Hebraica and Judaica David Solomon (Suleiman) Sassoon, born in Baghdad in 1880, led a lifelong quest across the Middle East to build the ...