£9m keeps oldest book in Europe
A seventh-century book that lay buried in a saint's coffin for hundreds of years has been saved for the nation.
The British Library raised £9m to buy the St Cuthbert Gospel, the earliest surviving European book. It was buried with St Cuthbert on Lindisfarne and found in 1104 when it was moved to Durham.
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