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English: Bible: Creation story, l. 6.

Polski: Biblia: Historia stworzenia, k. 6.

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UnknownUnknown (Meuse School)
Title
English: Bible: Creation story, l. 6.
Polski: Biblia: Historia stworzenia, k. 6.
Date End of the 12th century
Medium ink and color on parchment
Dimensions height: 50.4 cm (19.8 in); width: 36.7 cm (14.4 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,50.4U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,36.7U174728
182 pp
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1176 (Puławy), 5.1.2 (Hermitage in St. Petersburg), 2 (Imperial Library)
Object history

16th century: transferred to Cardinal Andrew Bathory
1599: transferred to Jesuits Collegium in Sandomierz (Collegii Sandomirie Soc. Jesu, p. 1 and 118)
1773: transferred to Library of the Tarnowski family
1809: transferred to Czartoryski Library in Puławy (gift of Jan Tarnowski)
1831: transferred to Hermitage and Imperial Library in Saint Petersburg (confiscation)
1921: transferred to National Library in Warsaw (revindication)

October 1944: Burned deliberately by the Germans during the Planned destruction of Warsaw.[1]
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"Catalogue of stolen and missing cultural achievements" / comp. Jan Świeczyński; Ośrodek Informacyjno-Koordynacyjny Ochrony Obiektów Muzealnych. Warsaw 1988 Editor: Wojciech Jaskulski, Piotr Ogrodzki.

See also Department of National Heritage, Wartime losses (an official webpage of Polish Ministry of Culture, Art and National Heritage)
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  1. English Rebecca Knuth (2006). Burning books and leveling libraries: extremist violence and cultural destruction, p. 166. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 02-75990-07-9
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