A thousand-year-old Hebrew Bible, the oldest known near complete, was bought at auction Wednesday in New York for $ 38.1 million by an American philanthropist. It took four minutes of auction, "between two determined buyers", at the headquarters of Sotheby's in Manhattan, to conclude the sale at this record price for a handwritten book.
The Bible was purchased by former U.S. ambassador and philanthropist Alfred Moses and his family, "for the benefit of the American Friends of the ANU-Museum of the Jewish People"