David Solomon Sassoon was the owner of one of the most impressive private collections of Hebrew manuscripts. Among his manuscripts was an early and complete Hebrew Bible, which was called the Codex ...

The owner of an Irish hotel is set to sell a book described as the most influential in history for a fee of up to $50 million at an auction in May. Jacqui Safra, a Swiss-Lebanese investor who co-owns ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — One of the oldest surviving biblical manuscripts, a nearly complete 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible, could soon be yours — for a cool $30 million. The Codex Sassoon, a leather-bound, ...

A more than 1,000-year-old Hebrew bible known as the Codex Sassoon is being sold by Swiss investor and collector Jacqui Safra in May at Sotheby’s in New York for an estimated US$30 million to US$50 ...

A Hebrew Bible more than 1,000 years old sold for US$38.1 million in New York on Wednesday, setting a record for the most valuable manuscript ever sold at auction. The Codex Sassoon — which dates to ...