A 1,100-year-old Hebrew bible has sold for US$38.1mil (approximately RM172mil) at Sotheby’s in New York.

The Codex Sassoon, which the auction house says is the oldest nearly complete example in the world, was purchased by the American Friends of the ANU - Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv, as a permanent gift to the museum. Funds for the acquisition were supplied by a donation from Alfred Moses, an attorney and diplomat, and the Moses family.