posted by (anonymous) at 04:39am on 13/10/2011
It would be interesting to know how a given reliquary got from church to museum. For the church, St Jerome's left thumb was presumably more valuable than the thing that housed it, so if a british collector offered good money for the reliquary they might be willing to sell it provided they could keep the thumb. Or was a housing bought with relic included, which latter was then thrown out because it was yucky?

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