Aleppo Codex Recreation. A page from the Aleppo Codex recreated on vellum paper (not real animal skin). A magnificent display piece.A good example for teaching on the Masoretic Text. Size is about 13 by 11 inches. The codex was written in the 10th century AD and was endorsed for its accuracy by Maimonides. It is considered the best and oldest text of the Hebrew Bible. The Karaite Jewish community of Jerusalem purchased the codex about a hundred years after it was made. During the First Crusade, the synagogue was plundered and the codex was transferred to Egypt, whose Jews paid a high price for its ransom. It was preserved at the Karaite then Rabbanite synagogue in Old Cairo, where it was consulted by Maimonides, who described it as a text trusted by all Jewish scholars. It is rumoured that in 1375 one of Maimonides' descendants brought it to Aleppo, Syria, leading to its present name. The Codex remained in Syria for five hundred years. In 1947, rioters enraged by the UN plan recommending the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine burned down the synagogue where it was kept. The Codex disappeared, then re-emerged in 1958, when it was smuggled into Israel by Syrian Jew Murad Faham, and presented to the president of the state, Itzhak Ben-Zvi. On arrival, it was found that parts of the codex had been lost. The Aleppo Codex was entrusted to the Ben-Zvi Institute and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. It is now on display near the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Wikipedia