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The U.S. professor and the Danish publisher fell to talking about Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, a subject of deep interest to both. Kemp Malone, Professor of English Literature at Johns Hopkins University, confessed that he was worried. The major manuscripts in his field, said he, were few, and they led a precarious existence. Many had been exposed to fire and bombardment, and might be again. It was time, said the professor, that these documents be protected, once and for all.
The publisher promptly agreed, and the conversation, held in 1948, led to an ambitious scheme.The Danish firm of Rosen-kilde & Bagger took on the...
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