1100-year-old Hebrew Bible sells for record-breaking $38 million at auction.

The Codex Sassoon, the oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible, has been sold at Sotheby's New York for $38.1m, becoming the most valuable manuscript sold at auction. The manuscript is thought to have been written about 1,100 years ago and is the earliest surviving example of a single manuscript containing all 24 books of the Hebrew Bible with punctuation, vowels, and accents. The winning bid exceeded the $30.8m paid by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates in 1994 for the Codex Leicester, Leonardo da Vinci's scientific notebook. The Codex Sassoon is named after a previous owner, David Solomon Sassoon, who acquired it in 1929 and assembled the largest and most important private collection of Hebrew manuscripts in the world at his home in London.