Sotheby’s Action House, wat sedert 1744 in kuns handel, het onthul dat die indrukwekkendste artefak van die menslike geskiedenis en kultuur op ‘n veilling in Mei 2023 opgeveil gaan word.
Dit staan bekend as die Codex Sassoon Bybel in Hebreeus en is meer as 1 000 jaar oud. Dit is die oudste en mees volledige Hebreeuse Bybel nog.
Hierdie Bybel word op veiling in New York sowel as Londen aangebied.
Dit word op Sotheby’s se webblad beskryf as een van die grootste skatte ter wêreld. Daar word geskat dat hierdie unieke en enig in sy soort Bybel moontlik R900 miljoen op ‘n veiling kan haal.
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Unveiling one of the most impressive artifacts of human history and culture: More than 1,000 years old, the Codex Sassoon Hebrew Bible puts an end to the great “silent period,” during which virtually no Hebrew literature survives—from the last of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the second century until the ninth century.
“Codex Sassoon marks a critical turning point in how we perceive the history of the Divine word across thousands of years, and is a transformative witness to how the Hebrew Bible has influenced the pillars of civilization–art, culture, law, politics—for centuries.” says Sharon Mintz, Senior Judaica Specialist.
This vital touchstone of human history comes to auction this May at #SothebysNewYork and carries the most valuable estimate ever for a historic book or manuscript.
Sotheby’s is proud to offer Codex Sassoon: The Earliest Most Complete Hebrew Bible during this year’s marquee New York Sales.
The Bible is one of the world’s greatest treasures and holds powerful resonance for the three monotheistic religions and thier billions of adherents. For thousands of years its sacred words have been closely studied, analyzed, and meditated on. The Hebrew Bible is composed of twenty-four books divided into three parts: the Pentateuch, the Prophets, and the Writings. Christians call these texts the Old Testament, and Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant sects all incorporate them into their biblical canons. Muslims, too, regard the Torah and the Psalms as divinely revealed books, and many biblical stories made their way into the Qur’an and later Islamic works. Copied, printed, and translated into scores of languages the world over, the Hebrew Bible arguably constitutes the most influential book of human history and the bedrock of Western civilization. Codex Sassoon, created circa 900, is the earliest surviving example of a single codex containing all the books of the Hebrew Bible with their punctuation, vowels, and accents.
The codex is named for its prominent modern owner, David Solomon Sassoon (1880-1942), who assembled the largest and most important private collection of Hebrew manuscripts in the world and had a special affinity for Bibles in particular. Some of the most valuable and important items in his library belonged to this genre of Hebrew literature. His collection catalogue, Ohel Dawid, begins and ends with biblical material, and Codex Sassoon is its very last entry, giving pride of place to this monument of world civilization.
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