“When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas, also the books, and above all the parchments.” (II Timothy 4:13, ESV)
– Apostle Paul, writing to Timothy as an old man imprisoned in a hole in the ground for spreading Christianity.
The Mamertine Prison is now a tourist destination included on many guided [...]

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I realize the title of this post sounds more like a Poirot novel, but I am actually refering to another example of mysterious book provenance I found in our library today. In 1851, the London publisher Thomas Bosworth published a second edition of Cases of Conscience; or, Lessons in Morals: for the Use [...]

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