10th century Bible could soon sell for astronomical sum at auction—most ever for a book
Old Shul: One of the Codex’s early owners was the synagogue of Makisin in modern-day Syria, where it resided until the 13th or 15th centuries.Since Sassoon purchased the Codex, it has appeared at auction only twice, both times at Sotheby’s: In 1978, when Sassoon’s heirs sold it to the British Rail Pension Fund for around $320,000 , and in 1989 when it fetched $3.2 million, or nearly $8 million today.
Hand to God: When it comes to touching ancient texts, the gloves come off, says Sharon Liberman Mintz of Sotheby's. The preferred method: Clean, bare hands.Though 15 of its 929 chapters are missing, mostly from Genesis, that pales in comparison to another famed 10th-century Bible, the Aleppo Codex, which lost forty percent of its pages in the late 1940s under mysterious circumstances.
Its fine condition—combined with its vowel and cantillation marks—means that the Codex Sassoon is as readable as a modern Bible,
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