Bookish Diversions: Book Robbers
Stolen Manuscript Returned after a Century, Store Shrinkage, Creative Theft, Book Borrowing, More
¶ Literary larceny. Bulgarian soldiers stole it from a Greek Orthodox monastery in 1917. It then traded hands over the decades until it ended up at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. And what was it exactly? A medieval gospel manuscript with distinctive rubricated stars adorning the story of the woman caugh…
