Manuel Fernandez Castineiras, an electrician who worked for the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain, has been sentenced by a Spanish court to 10 years in prison for theft of money and documents, most notably the Codex Calixtinus, as well as money-laundering. Castineiras and his wife have also been ordered to pay a fine of…

German officials in Munich returned over 600 books previously stolen from the Girolamini Library to Italian officials. The books were stolen by former Girolamini director, Marino Massimo de Caro, in 2011 and 2012, and were sold to a Munich-based rare books dealer. De Caro is believed to have stolen around 4,000 books total from the…