Text size 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 million. The codex is said to be the earliest and most complete example of a Hebrew Bible, dating to the late ninth or early 10th century. The manuscript “radiates such power,” says Sharon Mintz, Sotheby’s senior Judaica specialist in its books and manuscripts division. “It’s exciting to see and turn the pages, and to imagine the hands that have passed through it and...
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