Rothschild Prayerbook

In 2014 it was purchased by Australian businessman Kerry Stokes from Christie's New York[3] and is on display in the National Library of Australia.

[4] It contains the work of several leading miniaturists of the final flowering of the Ghent-Bruges school of Flemish illumination, who also co-operated on the Grimani Breviary, the Spinola Hours (Getty, Malibu) and other major manuscripts of these years.

The manuscript belonged to the princely Wittelsbach family in the 16th century, and then to the library of the counts palatine in Heidelberg, leaving that collection before 1623.

[10] It was confiscated from Louis Nathaniel von Rothschild immediately after the March 1938 German annexation of Austria.

After the end of World War II, the new Austrian government used legislation forbidding the export of culturally significant works of art in part to pressure the Rothschilds into "donating" a large number of works to Austrian museums, including the prayerbook, which went to the National Library.

[12] Under international pressure over this and similar disputes, the government of Austria returned the book and other works of art to the Rothschild family in 1999.