Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1918 — The Most Valuable Book. [ARTICLE]

The Most Valuable Book.

The Medico Lauren tian museum of Florence, Italy, has 4n its possession what is said to be the most valuable book In the world. This book Is called the “Codex Amiatinus” and is pronounced by some scholars to be perhaps the oldest and by all odds the best ancient Latin manuscript of the Bible. The work is believed to have been copied from the translation by St Jertgne, which he made direct from early Greek and Hebrew scripts. Its origin is placed in thi ninth century, and is thought to have been the handiwork of English priests.