British Library prepares £9 million book bid
15th July 2011
The British Library is attempting to raise the money to buy the St Cuthbert Gospel, the oldest intact book in Europe.
The book, which is palm-sized and still leather-bound in its original cover, is believed to have been buried with St Cuthbert on Lindisfarne in 698, before the saint and his tome were later reburied in what would become Durham cathedral.