Following the introduction of new legislation at the beginning of 2010 which permits certain British institutions to deaccession for the purposes of meeting recommendations of an appointed panel (presently the Spoliation Advisory Panel) and the approval of the Secretary of State for the restitution of cultural items ‘lost’ in the Nazi era, the Archdiocese of Benevento made a renewed application for the return of an important medieval missal, written in Beneventan script, in the possession of the