It's a 700-year-old Bible, and it went missing from its home over 500 years ago. But now it's coming home. 

The Canterbury Cathedral reports on their website that the Lyghfield Bible as it is known was recently purchased at an auction for £100,000.

The Lyghfield Bible is a small illuminated Bible and is thought to have been produced in Paris in the 13th century. The Bible was part of the monastery's library in the Cathedral which was broken up during the Reformation, according to the report. It is thought to be just one of 30 works that survived the past 500 years, out of a collection that once totalled thousands of volumes.

It is named after the monk whom it's believed originally owned the small Bible. Because of its small size, it's thought that the Bible was designed for personal use while travelling.

It's not known where the Bible originally went, but it eventually wound up in the library of a private collector. The Cathedral was able to buy it at auction thanks to a "grant of almost £96,000 from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) and further funding from the Friends of the National Libraries, the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral and a private donation."

It is now back at the Canterbury Cathedral, which is known as the mother church of the Anglican Communion.

Canterbury Cathedral Head of Archives and Library, Cressida Williams, told the Cathedral “We are very grateful to the support from funders. It is of the utmost significance to us to have here in our collections a copy of the core Christian text which was owned by one of the last monks of the medieval monastic community. The Bible bears witness to the upheavals of the Reformation, a time which defined what the Cathedral is today, and will have a key role in telling visitors our story.”

The Cathedral also reported that the Lyghfield Bible is the only complete Bible which survived from the original collection.