Jewish Press

The History Of The Codex Sassoon

Codex Sassoon sells for $33.5 million, a record for a book sold at auction, at Sotheby's in New York on May 17. Codex Sassoon, the oldest Tanach in private hands, was sold last week Wednesday, May 17, ...
Artnet

The Codex Sassoon, an Ancient Hebrew Bible, Raked in $33.5 Million at Sotheby’s, Making It One of the Most Valuable Manuscripts Ever Sold

The Bible may be the world’s most produced book, but there are few—if any—quite like the Codex Sassoon. Produced by a single, unknown scribe in the Levant around 1,100 years ago, it disappeared for ...
Barron's

A ‘Crucial Bridge’ to History, the Codex Sassoon Could Fetch $50 Million

A more than 1,000-year-old Hebrew bible known as the Codex Sassoon is being sold by Swiss investor and collector Jacqui Safra in May at Sotheby’s in New York for an estimated US$30 million to US$50 ...