A TREASURE trove of German and Roman Dutch legal texts, many three or four hundred years old, has been discovered as the Namibian Supreme Court moves into a new building. The collection of 3700 books, some of which are printed on rice paper, has been stuffed away in boxes in a cellar, for an unknown length of time. Among the treasures are a 1608 edition of a Hugo de Groot’s (Grotius) text. Many have a range of names written in them, indicating successive owners. Some were printed on the famous Wittenberg press. “I have no idea how to deal with them as many will have to be restored,” said Supreme Court librarian Jill Stringer.