Impressive Hebrew library (movie by Sotheby's)

The Valmadonna Trust Library

http://www.sothebys.com/video/movies/index_valmadonna.html

*gasp*

There's a link here to the brochure - well worth looking at.

I can't find any information as to whether it sold.

I think you can still make an offer :-)

I'm not sure it was up for sale. It's a trust library managed by Sotheby's, but the comments in the video clip suggest that they maintain it for scholars' access. Then again, they comment on how they hope it ends up in a good home, so it's a little fuzzy.

Os.

Oh, it was definitely for sale, but with the stipulation that the library not be broken up.

See the article here:

Sotheby’s has put it on sale as a single collection. Through next Thursday it is being handsomely displayed to the public, while luring the large institutional libraries and collectors who might be prepared to pay at least $40 million for what Sotheby’s, echoing scholars in the field, describes as “the finest private library of Hebrew books and manuscripts in the world.”