The Codex Sassoon dates from the late ninth or early tenth century. It includes 792 pages of parchment and weighs about 26.5 pounds.
The last manuscript to break records was Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Leicester, which sold for $30.8 million in 1994. The Hebrew Bible is the basis of the three Abrahamic religions — Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It is considered the oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible, according to the publisher of the book. It has been described as "one of the most important and unique texts in human history"