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Trying to keep your books from being stolen in the Middle Ages? If all else fails, include a curse against thieves!

Books were important and expensive items in the Middle Ages, which could take years to write, and those who owned them wanted to make sure they would be kept safe. However, security options were limited, and it could be very easy for a book to get taken from a monastery’s library. Medieval scribes had one form of protection that we don’t use anymore – curses.

At the end of a Bible, written around the year 1172, the scribe added this statement:

If anyone take away this book, let him die the death; let him be fried in a pan; let the falling sickness and fever seize him; let him be broken on the wheel, and hanged. Amen.

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Marc Drogin’s book Anathema! Medieval Scribes and the History of Book Curses, was published in 1983.Want to know more about Mediable book Please Download