Europe’s Oldest Intact Book Was Preserved and Found in the Coffin of a Saint

It's a play on the title Meetings with Remarkable Men?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079542/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Personally, I'd call what came out of the Nag Hammadi remarkable. Another edge case that I'm reading is The Kolbrin (it's authenticity is in question, but it's words are very inspiring) [0]

And of course, the Pistis Sophia, whose opening line is:

"IT came to pass, when Jesus had risen from the dead, that he passed eleven years discoursing with his disciples, and instructing them..." [1] [2]

The first few chapters are full of hard to read symbolism, but there's a lot to absorb in there.

[0] https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/hercolobus/kolbrin_00.htm

[1] http://gnosis.org/library/pistis-sophia/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistis_Sophia

>In case it's not obvious, the book in the photo at the top of the article is NOT the St. Cuthbert Gospel. (You don't hold a thousand-year-old book in your bare hand.)

I don't think it's true. It looks identical: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?order=b&ref=add_ms_...

Recent preferences are for clean dry bare hands for old books: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_890...

The book in the article is approximately 70 to 100 years older than the Book of Kells. There are many books that are even older. What makes this one special is that it has not been rebound, as the Book of Kells and most medieval codices have been.

Wouldn't want to deprive their great*36 grandchildren their rightful profit from this work, nobody would have any incentive to create at all otherwise

It's been in the public domain for over 1000 years. (Hopefully.)