Ancient Hebrew Bible sells for record-breaking $38.1M at auction.
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The Codex Sassoon, the oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible, has been sold for $38.1 million at Sotheby's in New York, making it the most valuable manuscript ever to be sold at an auction. The 1,100-year-old manuscript is named after renowned Judaica collector David Solomon Sassoon and was bought by US lawyer and former ambassador Alfred Moses for the ANU Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv, Israel. The Codex Sassoon is the earliest surviving manuscript of the Hebrew Bible that has all 24 books with punctuation, vowels, and accents.
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