With some books at least, sufficient heat is evidently enough to wreck them without them having to actually catch on fire. Apparently this particular manuscript actually did get transcribed before the war, so it’s not like anything in it is irretrievably lost, but it’s still a kind of distressing sight somehow… I wonder where it came from (Kassel University, where it apparently resides, was only founded in 1971 so it obviously came from somewhere else) and how many of its fellow manuscripts ended up in the same state but their contents weren’t saved…
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