The Valmadonna Trust Library contains some 10,000 items including a 15th century copy of the Hebrew Bible and one of the only two surviving copies of a 16th century Passover manuscript from Prague.
The collection, assembled over decades by London collector Jack Lunzer, was entrusted to Sotheby's auction house in New York in 2009. Lunzer initially hoped the U.S. Library of Congress would acquire the collection, worth millions of dollars.
Instead, some gems of the collection were sold last year to private collectors for about USD 12 million. In recent weeks, the rest was acquired by Israel's national library and an Israeli private collector for an undisclosed sum.