One of the oldest surviving biblical manuscripts, a nearly complete 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible, could soon be yours — for a cool $30 million.
The Codex Sassoon, a leather-bound, handwritten parchment tome containing almost the entirety of the Hebrew Bible, is set to go onIts anticipated sale speaks to the still bullish market for art, antiquities and ancient manuscripts even in a worldwide bear economy.It has put the price tag at an eye-watering $30 million to $50 million.
The Codex Sassoon is a leather-bound, handwritten parchment tome containing almost the entirety of the Hebrew Bible.Starting a few centuries before the Codex Sassoon’s creation, Jewish scholars known as Masoretes started codifying oral traditions of how to properly spell, pronounce, punctuate and chant the words of Judaism’s holiest book.
“It’s like the emergence of the biblical text as we know it today,” Mintz said. “It’s so foundationalThe manuscript is to be displayed in the United Kingdom for a week before being sold in the USA.Though it’s certainly ancient and rare, scholars say the Codex Sassoon doesn’t match the pedigree and quality of its contemporary — the Aleppo Codex.
A man named Khalaf ben Abraham gave it to Isaac ben Ezekiel al-Attar, who gave it to his sons Ezekiel and Maimon. David Solomon Sassoon was a Bombay-born son of an Iraqi Jewish business magnate who filled his London home with a massive collection of Jewish manuscripts. Sassoon’s estate was broken up after he died and the codex was sold by Sotheby’s in Zurich in 1978 to the British Rail Pension Fund, which had started investing in art several years earlier, for around $320,000.
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