1,400-year-old Bible ripped off
Thursday 06 April 1995 23:02 BST
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1,400-year-old Bible ripped off
Stockholm - Police have found no trace of two men who stole two pages from the sixth-century Silver Bible, one of the world's most historic manuscripts, at the Uppsala University library. The thieves smashed the glass case containing the book, looted by Swedish troops from Prague in 1648, and sprayed library staff with tear-gas. AP
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