The Codex Sassoon: 1,100-Year-Old Hebrew Bible Sells for $38 Million

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The Codex Sassoon, a 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible and one of the oldest surviving biblical manuscripts, was sold for $38 million at an auction in New York. The leather-bound parchment volume contains a nearly complete Hebrew Bible and was purchased by former U.S. Ambassador to Romania Alfred H.