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. Manuscript Theft

For centuries people have been cutting single pages out of are manuscripts for profit. The trade of the panel paintings and miniatures on hese pages is causing alarm among the curators and researchers who maintain and se libraries and archives. David D'Arcy reports from New York that this age-old ct of vandalism is still ruining priceless works of art.

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