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So, the solution is to remove it from public access so it cannot be used in disrespectful practices. Not to destroy the artifact. Especially not by a university or any institution supposedly preserving knowledge and culture. (And yes, most of human history is nasty.)

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It's a strange warping of preservation that means you'd rather the book be inaccessible but complete than accessible but complete in content.

It isn't a strange warping of preservation, it's EXACTLY what preservation means. Destruction is always and everywhere the opposite of preservation.

Especially when it is not the content, but the nature of the object that make it unique and historic. I could understand if this was only copy in the world of the text inside, but that does not seem to be case.

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