*Gaude Mater Polonia is Rejoice, Mother of Poland. My big mistake, sorry.
The fragment of Gaude Mater Polonia – an anthem of medieval Poland. The date of the anthem is unknown, but this fragment was problably made between 1350-1380 so it’s crearly one of the oldest preserved fragments, maybe even the oldest one. Before the WW2 it was placed in Biblioteka Seminaryjna in Płock with other medieval and renaissance religious texts from Poland. It has a big stamp of Płock’s library. Nowadays, robbed texts from the library are found in the entire world. This text with few others also from Płock was found in 2023 in Staatsbibliothek in Berlin. The way from Płock to Berlin is still unknown but we have a proof that the text is in german hands at least since 1968. More data about the fragment here: https://czasopisma.ispan.pl/index.php/m/article/view/3423/2831
It’s very hard to recover stolen polish things from Germany because they fortified themselves with laws giving tools to current "owners". 932-934 from their civil code are the "good faith" laws so it’s possible to buy things from illegal owner if you do this in a "good faith" (whatever it means). 935.1 theoretically cancels all transactions from illegal owners but 935.2 gives an exception to things sold at public auctions and/or commisioned by federal or local administration (979.1).
https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_bgb/englisch_bgb.html#p4521
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Posted by chinkalichaczapuri
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Never trust a German to do the right thing.
Why wouldn’t they return this stuff? How can we lobby them (not as governments but as regular people) to return looted treasure & artefacts?
Gaude Mater Polonia is not Bogurodzica
Good faith means you have a justified and real faith that what you are doing is legal. When you buy headphones from apple store for example you act in good faith since you are justified in believing that your act was fully legal in every way.
Not today in Berlin, it has been returned to Plock already.
[https://www.gov.pl/web/niemcy/niemcy-zwrocily-polskie-dobra-kultury](https://www.gov.pl/web/niemcy/niemcy-zwrocily-polskie-dobra-kultury)
Kind of questionable post, considering the facts.
British Museum moment