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Month: April 2019

645 Books with a Happy Ending

16 April 2019 / dottietales / Leave a comment

The library of my alma mater, Bonn University, has reason to celebrate:  645 books, which had been missing since WWII, have returned home.  Among the books, many of them unique, are 11 medieval manuscripts, 2 medieval documents and 39 incunabula. Continue reading →

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