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But one codex survived. Hidden behind a loose stone in the monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, it slept for 250 years. In 1789, a French soldier of Napoleon’s army pried the stone open. He did not see a holy book; he saw tooled leather and gold. He sold it to a London book dealer, who sold it to a Russian count, who lost it in a poker game to a German antiquarian.

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By 1500, the Church grew uneasy. A Bible in the vulgar tongue? Unsupervised? In 1551, the Index of Forbidden Books quietly listed “ Biblia romanceada atribuida al Rey Sabio ” as suspect. Copies were ordered to be stripped of their illuminations—gold-leaf angels scraped off like heretical skin. But one codex survived