At the center of this tale is the fate of a stolen medieval illuminated manuscript.

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He acquired the second volume of a 15th-century illuminated manuscript of Jewish laws, the Mishneh Torah. (The first volume had already been taken by the Vatican.) And he kept buying tzedakah boxes.

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The manuscript from circa 1465 was illuminated with large miniatures for Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy.

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