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1,100-year-old Codex Sassoon, one of world’s oldest surviving biblical manuscripts, will be donated to museum in Israel
A 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible that is one of the world’s oldest surviving biblical manuscripts sold for $38m in New York on Wednesday.
The Codex Sassoon, a leather-bound, handwritten parchment volume containing a nearly complete Hebrew Bible, was purchased by the former US ambassador to Romania Alfred H Moses on behalf of the American Friends of ANU and donated to ANU Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv, where it will join the collection, Sotheby’s said in statement.
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