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| | Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library: Recent Acquisitions 1998 |
 | | The manuscript was heavily read and annotated, and appears to have traveled widely: though produced in the Ukraine, it was later in Russia, and then in Poland by the 18th century. |
 | | The first text also has a Polish connection, in that Pibrac, the 16th-century French jurist and poet, was sent to Poland in 1573 by Charles IX as chancellor to his brother Henry, who had been elected king of that country. |
 | | Born in Lodz, Poland, in 1933, Jerzy Kosinski was educated in his native country, where he read sociology and history. |
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