Get ready to put in those bids because this is going to be the auction of a lifetime.
at the Israel Museum is older than the Codex Sassoon, almost two-fifths of its pages are missing.
“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,” Richard Austin, Sotheby’s global head ofand manuscripts, said in a statement. “With such eminence, the Codex has an incomparable presence and gravitas that can only be borne from more than one thousand years of history.
The Codex Sassoon has Masoretic notes from early Middle Age scholars on how words in the Hebrew Bible’s twenty-four books should be spelled, read and accented. It also contains more than a millennium of annotations, transcriptions, commentary and ownership records. Sotheby’s said the latter provides even greater detail on how Abrahamic religions developed and spread across the ancient Levant area in the Middle Ages.
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