The renowned late-19th and early 20th-century collector of Hebraica and Judaica David Solomon (Suleiman) Sassoon, born in Baghdad in 1880, led a lifelong quest across the Middle East to build the ultimate religious library, whose codices and incunabula provide the world with a crucial, largely medieval view of the origins of what are called the Abrahamic faiths, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The “Ohel Dawid,” Sassoon’s catalogue of his stunning collection, is the record of his life’s work, and one lodestone in that catalogue is what’s known as “Sassoon 1053,” or more commonly as the Sassoon Codex, one of the most complete Hebrew bibles in existence. Sotheby’s has announced its
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