by ggm on 5/25/23, 12:04 PM
How exciting to find hoarded/forgotten texts in an age when non destructive palimpsest analysis through modern imaging techniques has improved leaps and bounds.
Who knows what lies underneath the top layers of usage?
Texts were copied laboriously by hand. Each one carrys stories of where it came from. It could inform trade links from monastic scribe houses across the globe. It could have DNA fragments of value.
It almost certainly has pictures of cats in it, somewhere. Doing strange things with snails.
by dailyplanet on 5/25/23, 3:43 PM
by nickpp on 5/25/23, 1:17 PM
I love smoky old churches. Sadly so many of them (especially in off-the-beaten-path places) were constructed with wood and various accidents (candles, short-circuits) burned them to the ground. Not the same even if fully reconstructed...
by aizyuval on 5/25/23, 4:33 PM
It’s so refreshing to be reminded that history is still lying around us, waiting to be found. Waiting for the right folks.
by listenfaster on 5/25/23, 2:16 PM
Exciting to see so much music notation in one of the shots in the article. Maybe we’ll hear something from someone undiscovered?
by luxuryballs on 5/25/23, 3:02 PM
I collect old books and I am drooling right now. My oldest are only 1860s.
by xhevahir on 5/25/23, 9:36 PM
When I saw "Romanian" I figured the medieval texts were Byzantine and therefore might contain ancient Greek fragments. Since the library belonged instead to Transylvanian Saxons, that's probably not the case.
by nologic01 on 5/25/23, 7:39 PM
Coincidentally on other news today people in Emilia Romana are rushing to salvage old books stored in the basements of flooded churches.
by pvitz on 5/25/23, 4:52 PM
It is a pity that Aristotle's second book of "Poetics" doesn't seem to be among the books found there.