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[–] Kattie [S] 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

The oldest known Bible written in Latin, one of the great treasures of the Anglo-Saxon world, is to return to Britain after more than 1300 years.

Codex Amiatinus was written by monks at Wearmouth-Jarrow monastery, in the north-east of England, in the early eighth century.

It was one of three produced: one is lost, one exists only in fragments. The surviving Bible was carried to Rome as a gift for Pope Gregory II - quite an undertaking, as the book weighs 35kg and measures a foot thick.