'The codex has an incomparable presence and gravitas that can only be borne from more than one thousand years of history.'
The oldest and nearly complete version of the Hebrew Bible, The Codex Sassoon, will be sold at auction in the coming days, according to British-founded American multinational corporation Sotheby’s., a more than one thousand-year-old book is estimated to sell $30 million to $50 million on May 16.
"Codex Sassoon has long held a revered and fabled place in the pantheon of surviving historic documents and is undeniably one of the most important and singular texts in human history," said Richard Austin, Sotheby's global head of books and manuscripts."With such eminence, the codex has an incomparable presence and gravitas that can only be borne from more than one thousand years of history.
that is used across the globe still today," Sharon Liberman Mintz, a senior Judaica specialist in Sotheby's books and manuscripts department, told
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