The oldest and most complete Hebrew bible, over a thousand years old, will be auctioned in May and could reach 50 million dollars (about 46 million euros), announced this Wednesday the auction house Sotheby’s.
The Codex Sassoon, named after its best-known owner, David Solomon Sassoon, the greatest collector of Hebrew and Jewish manuscripts of the 20th century, who died in 1942, dates from the year 900 and represents “the most complete Hebrew Bible”.
The value is estimated at between US$30 and US$50 million, and could be among “the most expensive manuscripts ever sold,” Richard Austin, head of Sotheby’s books and ancient manuscripts, told Agence France-Presse (AFP).
The auction will take place in May, during the classic spring auction season for contemporary, modern and impressionist paintings, organized by the giants of the sector in New York: Sotheby’s, owned by French-Israeli tycoon Patrick Drahi and Christie’s, his competitor controlled by the ‘holding’ Artémis of the French billionaire François Pinault.
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