From Afghanistan to European Auction houses: the smuggling and sale of stolen manuscripts.

The seminar will first survey the historical losses of manuscripts in recent times and the current situation of manuscript trafficking in Afghanistan. Then pictures of manuscripts that have been stolen in the last three years and successfully confiscated will be shown. In the end, based on the examples proposed, an analysis will be proposed of the tricks that smugglers use to hide that a manuscript is stolen and to sell manuscripts through auction houses.

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