The oldest and almost complete version of the Hebrew Bible, The Codex Sassoon, will be sold at auction
“The Sassoon Code has long been reveredand a legendary place in the pantheon of surviving historical documents. Without a doubt, it is one of the most important and unique texts in human history,” said Richard Austin, Sotheby’s Global Head of Books and Manuscripts.
The Code is named after the businessman and philanthropistand Judaica collector David Solomon Sassoon, who owned the book. Its current owner is the heir to a banking fortune, Jake Safra.
The Sassoon Code contains comments from scholarsearly Middle Ages. They tell you how to write and read the texts of all 24 books of the Hebrew Bible. The book also contains annotations, transcriptions, comments and notes from various owners of the manuscript over a period of thousands of years. According to Sotheby's representatives, they help to understand how the Abrahamic religions developed and spread throughout the ancient Levant in the Middle Ages.
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