In 1996, Hanna Heath, a young Australian book conservator is called to analyze the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a priceless six-hundred-year-old Jewish prayer book that has been salvaged from a destroyed Bosnian library. When Hanna discovers a series of artifacts in the centuries' old, she unwittingly exposes an international cover up.

Illuminates the extraordinary people who have spent their lives making, collecting and preserving manuscripts of the Middle Ages, which are among the greatest works of European art and literature, through the centuries, revealing how manuscripts have survived and been used by very different kinds of people in many different circumstances.

"Liesl Weiss has been (mostly) happy working in the rare books department of a large university, managing details and working behind the scenes to make the head of the department look good. But when her boss has a stroke and she's left to run things, she discovers that the library's most prized manuscript is missing. Liesl tries to sound the alarm and inform the police about the missing priceless book but is told repeatedly to keep quiet to keep the...

Nongbri challenges beliefs about ancient Christian papyri in this readable account of their gaps and the suppositions regarding them. He challenges the fixation on their content at the expense of considering them as objects. He provides clear explanations of the production of ancient codices, the imprecise methods of dating them, and the complicated history of their reemergence: For the Beatty Papyri, Nongbri uses the wide range of dates assigned...