Speaking in Polish at the handover, George Windsor, the great grandson of King George V, revealed he had bought the book at a street market in Cambridge before realising its connection to Poland.
Regarded as poet Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński’s only play, the work was performed for the first time ever after the unfinished manuscript was rediscovered inside the National Library.
The 1522 King Solomon’s ‘Ecclesiastes’, part of the Old Testament’s didactic writings upon which the first printed book in Polish was translated, was discovered by a Polish lawyer on an auction website in Austria.
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