Dawn,
Many thanks for your reply, and especially for that vivid account of the
Chartres MS. sheets burning in the air, a finale worthy of Eco's blazing
library. Another story I heard from an informed diocesan source while I was
working in the Chartres archives was that a (Canadian?) team had arrived
shortly before the war to film--microfilm?--some important MSS. After doing so,
they left, only to discover that their equipment was faulty.
Gary Dickson
University of Edinburgh
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