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English information on the casehttp://listserv.uiuc.edu/wa.cgi?A2=ind0609&#38;L=medtextl&#38;T=0&#38;P=11816Rebecca LR Garber:This came from our medieval colleagues in Germany.  I have included theoriginal post, which includes the article from the Stuttgarter Zeitung,because I can not find an English reference to this atrocity on the net.In summary:The house of Baden in Germany has fallen on hard times, and has decidedthat, in order to pay for renovations to the family castle in Salem,that they will sell a number of paintings, coins, and manuscripts toraise 70 million Euros.The manuscripts are currently housed in the Badische Landesbibliothekin Karlsruhe, where they have been available to scholars, and areconsidered part of the European cultural heritage.  The director of thecollection found out *in the public press* that his collection was tobe sold piecemeal to the highest bidder.There is some debate as to who actually owns the collection, the familyor the state of Baden-Württemberg.  This is keeping the lawyers busy,but may not keep the manuscripts safe.Among the manuscripts at risk:The Book of Hours belonging to Christoph 1 of Baden, and the prayerbook of Susanna von Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach.  This collection alsoincludes the manuscripts from religious houses secularized in 1803,including the collection from Reichenau, which includes mss from the 11thC.See alsohttp://listserv.uiuc.edu/wa.cgi?A2=ind0609&#38;L=medtextl&#38;D=0&#38;T=0&#38;P=19259List EXLIBRIShttp://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byform/mailing-lists/exlibris/2006/09/msg00273.htmlMessage from Bettina WagnerSharp-Lhttps://listserv.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/wa-iub.exe?A2=ind0609&#38;L=sharp-l&#38;T=0&#38;P=14723Message from Bettina WagnerA&#38;A listhttp://forums.archivists.org/read/messages?id=238Message from Klaus Graf