Codex Sassoon, oldest near-complete Hebrew Bible, set to fetch up to $50m at auction 1,000-year-old codice, likely to become most expensive book or historical document ever sold, ...

The Codex Sassoon, however, represents a key advance in recording technology: While the ancient Hebrew Bible was written using consonants only, medieval scribes known as the Masoretes developed ...

The Codex Sassoon is the the earliest most complete Hebrew Bible, which dates back to the late 9th or early 10th century, and contains all 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, but is missing 12 leaves.

The Codex Sassoon, which dates back more than a thousand years, could break records when it hits the auction block in May. Oldest Hebrew Bible Could Be Most Expensive Historical Document Ever ...

The "Codex Sassoon," an ancient Hebrew Bible written in the late 9th or early 10th century, was purchased Wednesday at Sotheby’s in New York City for $38.1 million.. For the record: The price ...

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 Aleppo Codex, dates from 930 but ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — 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 ...

The Codex Sassoon is more than 1,000 years old, dating from the late 9th or early 10th century, and sold for $38.1 million at Sotheby's in New York on Wednesday.

JTA) A 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible became the most expensive book ever sold when it drew a price of $38.1 million at auction at Sotheby’s in New York City. The buyer of the item, known as the ...

A copy of the Hebrew Bible, thought to be 1,100 years old and one of the world's oldest intact books, has been sold at auction for $38m (£30m). The Codex Sassoon, a leather-bound, handwritten ...

The Codex Sassoon, a late ninth- or early 10th-century book Sotheby’s has dubbed the “earliest, most complete copy of the Hebrew Bible,” was sold for $38.1 million Wednesday afternoon to American ...

Codex Sassoon: 1,100 year-old Hebrew Bible sells for £30m at auction and heads to Israel. The price for the handwritten parchment volume, one of the world's oldest surviving biblical manuscripts ...