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The Library 2005 6(1):76-79; doi:10.1093/library/6.1.76
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Bibliographical Notes

Bibliographical Note: Books Stolen from Ely Cathedral Priory and Found in Paris, c. 1330

R. Sharpe

Oxford

A letter from the monks of Ely cathedral priory, datable c. 1330, requests the king's help in recovering three books belonging to the priory that had been sequestered by the official of the bishop of Paris. The monks knew that they were part of a group of four books stolen from the cloister that had been found and recognized in Paris. How the stolen books came to be recognized, why they were in the hands of the bishop's official, how the monks of Ely knew they were there, and why they were not more readily restored are all unknown, but the letter reveals a considerable capacity for the recognition of book-ownership and for communication that one might have assumed did not exist


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