More than 1000-year-old collection of sacred scriptures of Judaism has been auctioned at an auction in New York. Codex Sassoon is the most expensive auctioned religious Jewish piece in history.
It contains all 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, only twelve pages are missing. The work is named after its most famous owner, the collector of religious writings, David Solomon Sassoon, who died in 1942. The buyer of the printed work was the US billionaire and head of the investment firm Citadel, Kenneth Griffin.