destruction of the synagogue, the codex was owned by a Salama ibn Abi al-Fakhr as the synagogue awaited reconstruction, which never happened. Public Re-emergence 600 years later, the codex resurfaced when David Solomon Sassoon purchased it for £350 in 1929 and added his bookplate to inner binding of the manuscript. Though known to scholars in the 20th century, the book stayed under private ownership. It was owned by his descendants until 1978, when they sold it to the British Rail Pension Fund through Sotheby's Zurich. S1 was exhibited just once, in 1982 at the British Museum. The manuscript was auctioned again through Sotheby's on December 5, 1989, when it sold to a dealer for £2,035,000, who sold it to investor Jacqui Safra that same year. Safra will sell it through Sotheby's on May 16, 2023, with an lot estimate between $30–50 million, with public display in London, ANU - Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv, Dallas, Los Angeles, and New York City. See also List of Hebrew Bible manuscripts Aleppo Codex Damascus Pentateuch Leningrad Codex Dead Sea Scrolls References External links High resolution color images of Codex Sassoon 1053 from the National Library of Israel. (Also available at archive.org) 10th-century books 10th-century biblical manuscripts Biblical manuscripts Hebrew Bible manuscripts Judaism in Syria Jewish medieval literature Jewish manuscripts Jewish prayer and ritual texts Jewish Syrian history