Here's my question of the day. If the monastery officially claims that the Voss edition of Ignatius didn't belong in the monastery in the first place and was only brought from outside into the library, why are they so keen to prevent the book from leaving their possession. I have already offered them a new mint condition copy of the same book to compensate them for the loss of the book, which Tselikas claims, was never belonged in the library in the first place. So what's the big deal? I doubt very much anyone can even use this battered old book that's missing its cover and whose pages are already turning yellow (see images in Tselikas's article).
If someone left a beaten up old book in my car and then over fifty years later someone else came along and told me that they needed to conduct tests on the book and offered me a new copy to replace it, why wouldn't I take them up on their offer? There is something fishy about the claims of the monastery in toto. First, they take the manuscript out of the Ignatius book and claim it got lost. Now they won't release the book to be examined. It should be surprising that a strong xenophobic attitude would be present in a monastery (i.e. a place where people come to 'leave the outside world behind').
