Biblical auction: Early Christian Scripture and ancient codices draw collectors’ eyes to Paris
The starring role in an upcoming auction at Christie’s will be taken by the Crosby-Schoyen Codex, the oldest known book in private hands. CATHERINE PEPINSTER, of Religion News Service, reports that it contains the oldest complete version of the First Epistle of Peter and the Book of Jonah…
Hebrew Bible purchased for $US38.1 million for display at Jewish museum
New York, USRNS The Codex Sassoon, a late ninth or early 10th-century book Sotheby’s has dubbed the “earliest, most complete copy of the Hebrew Bible,” was sold for $US38.1 million on Wednesday afternoon to American Friends of the ANU, Museum of the Jewish People. It will become part of the museum’s core exhibition and permanent collection in Tel […]
Sotheby’s hopes for record sale of ancient Hebrew Bible
JerusalemAP One of the oldest surviving Biblical manuscripts, a nearly complete 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible, could soon be yours – for a cool $US30 million. The Codex Sassoon, a leather-bound, handwritten parchment tome containing almost the entirety of the Hebrew Bible, is set to go on the block at Sotheby’s in New York in May. Its […]