Thousand-year-old Hebrew Bible is bought for £30m by a man called Moses
A 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible that is one of the world’s oldest surviving biblical manuscripts sold for 38 million US dollars (£30 million) in New York on Wednesday.
The Codex Sassoon, a leather-bound, handwritten parchment volume containing a nearly complete Hebrew Bible, was purchased by 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 a statement.
