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 ...

David Solomon Sassoon was the owner of one of the most impressive private collections of Hebrew manuscripts. Among his manuscripts was an early and complete Hebrew Bible, which was called the Codex ...

One of the world's oldest Hebrew Bibles goes up for auction today. It's expected to command bids of, well, biblical proportions - tens of millions of dollars. Marisa Mazria Katz has the story. MARISA ...

Codex Sassoon, a rare 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible, will be displayed April 18-20 at SMU’s Bridwell Library. It will be auctioned at Sotheby’s in New York this May for an estimated $30 to $50 million.

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 for "The ...

The oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible, described as “one of the most important and singular texts in human history,” has become the most valuable manuscript ever to be sold at an auction. The ...

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-bound, handwritten parchment ...

The Codex Sassoon is an ancient tome containing almost the entirety of the Hebrew Bible and is set to go on sale at Sotheby's in May. First created by Masoretes in the 10th or 11th century, the ...

The world’s oldest, most complete Hebrew Bible, which dates from 1,100 years ago, was auctioned Wednesday for US$38.1 million—setting a new record for the most expensive manuscript ever sold at ...

March 22 (UPI) --Sotheby's is auctioning what it describes as "the earliest most complete Hebrew Bible" in May. The item is expected to attract between $30 million and $50 million. The Codex Sassoon ...

It was a bittersweet moment for ANU — The Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv. After centuries away from the public eye, the Codex Sassoon, the world’s earliest surviving copy of the Hebrew Bible, ...