Did the Church steal it to hide old lies and replace them with new ones?
400-year-old Bible stolen from US is found in Netherlands
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#12> Wearing blue latex gloves, [the FBI agent] displayed the Bible, carefully opening its weathered pages. Don't archivists dealing with old books use their bare hands as they are kinder on the paper?
Hands contain oils, mold spores, bacteria, etc. and are certainly not good for fibrous media. Strategies depend upon what kind of media you have. Disposable cotton gloves are very popular. If you are interested in further research, the Getty is one of the world authorities on antiquities handling, they probably have a page or guide about it someplace. (Source: I have an art collection on antique paper myself, and hav…
For books, clean, dry, bare hands is recommended by the Library of Congress, the British Library, and Library of Canada. They explicitly recommend against using gloves.
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#13On the topic of stolen books, an employee at the Royal library in Sweden stole a number of ancient books, some of which turned up in the US. The case ended with him blowing himself up.
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/27/books/swedish-royal-libra...
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#14Once upon a time I unassumingly pondered upon my university library's sale. This type of thing happened every term and every term I would skip a class or so to pore over the treasures.
And this time, indeed there was a treasure. The first thing that struck me was the big sticker on the first page that said "DO NOT REMOVE FROM LIBRARY" and "DO NOT THROW OUT". Well, I am not sure exactly what it said, but that was the general drift.
As the honest, hardworking, minimum wage person that I am... I promptly alerted the librarian on shift. The librarian (and his team of white walkers) then rather alarmedly started digging through the books in search of similar labels.
At the end of the day I wasn't even thanked. Honesty goes a long way to making one a poor student and without booze money.
So you want to know what the book was? I'll give you a hint. There were two volumes. And the writer was "more modest than Newton".
I estimate that the two volumes are worth about USD 8000 together.
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#15On the topic of stolen books, an employee at the Royal library in Sweden stole a number of ancient books, some of which turned up in the US. The case ended with him blowing himself up. https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/27/books/swedish-royal-libra...
Wow, crazy :-) thanks for posting
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#16Once upon a time I unassumingly pondered upon my university library's sale. This type of thing happened every term and every term I would skip a class or so to pore over the treasures. And this time, indeed there was a treasure. The first thing that struck me was the big sticker on the first page that said "DO NOT REMOVE FROM LIBRARY" and "DO NOT THROW OUT". Well, I am not sure exactly what it said, but that was the…
At the end of the day I wasn't even thanked.
Sounds like the librarian is yet another person trying to cover his own ass. Instead of showing gratitude, he probably wants to pretend the whole incident never happened.
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#17Here is another case for anyone interested. Sadly in this instance the court decided to let the thief keep and auction it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes_Palimpsest
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#18On the topic of stolen books, an employee at the Royal library in Sweden stole a number of ancient books, some of which turned up in the US. The case ended with him blowing himself up. https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/27/books/swedish-royal-libra...
An asshole to the very end. His suicide injured 11 other people.
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#19On the topic of stolen books, an employee at the Royal library in Sweden stole a number of ancient books, some of which turned up in the US. The case ended with him blowing himself up. https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/27/books/swedish-royal-libra...
If you read the “Deep Sleep” article, there’s a story about a guy that steals a Gutenberg bible from Harvard and meets a similar fate.
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#20Once upon a time I unassumingly pondered upon my university library's sale. This type of thing happened every term and every term I would skip a class or so to pore over the treasures. And this time, indeed there was a treasure. The first thing that struck me was the big sticker on the first page that said "DO NOT REMOVE FROM LIBRARY" and "DO NOT THROW OUT". Well, I am not sure exactly what it said, but that was the…
Once when I was visiting a technical library, I saw that they had many volumes of a particular 1940s Russian engineering journal (Izvestiia Akademii nauk SSSR, Otdelenie tekhnicheskikh nauk, rare in the US, probably common in Russian) that had several articles I was trying to find copies of. I opened the index to the journal from the early 1950s to determine the volumes to check, and must have found that they didn't have the right volumes. So I put the index in the reshelving spot.
A few days later I saw the index in the free book pile. I took it and showed the librarian on duty. As I recall they said that the journal wasn't in the online catalog, so they didn't think the book was theirs (despite the markings on the book clearly saying it was). They seemed quite alarmed that they nearly threw out the index. I imagine the journal is now in the online catalog.
Later, I scanned the entire index just in case it disappears for similar reasons in the future...