The world's oldest book in private ownership has been sold at auction in London for more than three million pounds.
The Crosby-Schoyen Codex has been sold by Norwegian book collector Martin Schoyen and contains some of the earliest copies of two texts from the Bible: the Book of Jonah and the First Epistle of Peter.
The codex is a Coptic manuscript and was discovered by Egyptian farmers in a vase in the sand in the 1950s. It was written by a monk in the 5th century and is now double-sided with glazed pages.
The bidding at Christie's auction house was won by an anonymous bidder via telephone, for a sum equivalent to approximately 40.9 million kronor.
