Mishneh Torah sold in private deal

The Mishneh Torah was withdrawn from a recent Sotheby’s sale at the eleventh hour after vendors Michael and Judy Steinhard struck a private treaty sale with The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

One of the finest illuminated Hebrew manuscripts ever created, the Torah was completed c.1457 in Nor…

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