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Oldest Privately Owned Book Sells For GBP3mn At UK Sale

The Crosby-Schoyen Codex is one of the earliest books in existence (Credit: AFP)

The world's oldest book in a private collection, and one of the earliest books in existence, sold at auction in London on Tuesday for more than GBP3 million.

The Crosby-Schoyen Codex was previously owned by the Norwegian businessman and rare book collector Martin Schoyen, and contains the earliest complete copies of two texts from the Bible -- the book of Jonah and Peter's first epistle.

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