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The Schoyen Collection is one of the largest collections of ancient and medieval manuscripts in the world, and has a nifty web page devoted to it. There is something wonderful about the thought that the books of today might survive two or three thousand years hence, and be the objects of a collector’s passion. So much of the human heritage is transitory, being plowed under to make room for the new, that the handful of items that survive are truly priceless.