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Oldest privately owned book sold at British auction

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.
Oldest privately owned book sold at British auction
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