The Codex Sassoon, believed to be over 1,000 years old, could fetch up to $50 million at an auction handled by Sotheby's.
copy of the Hebrew Bible from around 1,000 years ago — missing only a few pages — will go up for auction in New York in May. The price tag? An estimated $30 to $50 million, said Sotheby’s, which is handling the sale.The “earliest, most complete Hebrew bible ever discovered,” Sotheby’s said, could also “become the most valuable historical document ever sold at auction.” In 2021, the auction house sold a first printing of the U.S. Constitution for $43 million, setting a record for that category.
It is one of only two surviving codices from that period of history that comprise “almost the entire Hebrew Bible,” Sotheby’s says. The other, known as the, dates from 930 but is missing roughly 40 percent of its pages. Carbon dating confirmed the Codex Sassoon is of a similar age, but “significantly more complete.
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