Fate of The Stolen Manuscripts
In 1888, the heirs of Lord Ashburnham sold a part of the documents stolen in France to the French national library including the Ashburnham Pentateuch. Some 2,000 manuscripts which Libri had stolen in Italy and sold in London to Lord Ashburnham were repurchased by the Italian Government in 1884 and are back in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana. In 2010, one of the stolen items, a letter from Descartes to Father Marin Mersenne concerning the publication of “Meditations on First Philosophy”, was discovered in the library of Haverford College. The college has returned the letter to the Institut de France on June 8, 2010.
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