This celebrated art repatriation case centered upon a number of medieval objects belonging to the Lutheran Church of St. Servatius in Quedlinburg, Germany, about 100 miles southwest of Berlin. The objects included the Samuhel Gospel, a ninth-century illuminated Latin manuscript with a jewel-encrusted cover; the Evangelistar, a printed manuscript with jeweled cover dating to 1513; five crystal reliquary flasks with gilded and jeweled mounts; a small silver reliquary box; a carved ivory comb; and a reliquary casket decorated with jewels, gilt copper repousse plaques, and carved ivory inlays that belonged to Henry I, the first Saxon king who unified the...