A tiny Bible the size of a pound coin has been discovered at Leeds City Library seemingly out of nowhere. The 1911 copy is not much bigger than a £1 coin, and billed as the smallest Bible in the world when it was printed, although historians dispute this.
Librarians are baffled as to where it came from, with its origins and how it came to be in the library a mystery. Originally discovered during a Covid lockdown, the librarians hope it will be cherished by visitors and amateurs, not just academics and researchers.
It is a 1911 replica of a so-called Chained Bible, also known as the Great Bible, which is the first authorised edition of the Bible in English from 1539. The replica contains both Testaments printed on 876 gossamer-thin India paper pages which can only be read with a magnifying glass.
