Codex Sassoon. It's the oldest, most complete Hebrew bible, and it's set to be sold by Sotheby's for [View all]

Codex Sassoon. It's the oldest, most complete Hebrew bible, and it's set to be sold by Sotheby's for $30 to $50 million.

A more than 1,000 year-old copy of the Hebrew bible will be put up for auction by Sotheby's in May for somewhere between $30 to $50 million.

It's known as the Codex Sassoon — named after its former owner, David Solomon Sassoon, a collector who amassed a significant collection of Judaica and Hebraica manuscripts in the 20th century.

What's most notable about the Codex Sassoon is that it's almost complete. The book is missing a handful of pages — twelve full leaves to be exact — which also makes it the oldest, and most complete copy of the Hebrew bible to exist, according to Sotheby's.

The Codex Sassoon is one of two surviving codices dating back to the tenth century that can be considered an "almost complete" Hebrew bible, according to Sotheby's.

The other, known as the Aleppo Codex, "mysteriously" lost roughly 40% of its pages between the 1940s and 1950s, Sotheby's noted. The oldest, fully complete Hebrew bible, known as the Leningrad Codex, was written at least a century later.

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Go to the link. Fascinating pictures.