- cross-posted to:
- askhistorians@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- askhistorians@lemmy.world
In 1345 he personally discovered a collection of Cicero’s letters not previously known to have existed, the collection Epistulae ad Atticum, in the Chapter Library (Biblioteca Capitolare) of Verona Cathedral
So basically a guy goes into a library, rummages for a while, and finds ~1400 years old text no one knew was there
Do we still have places that store texts (like libraries, but doesn’t have to strictly be a library) where we don’t have everything catalogued and we don’t know what might be inside?
It’s like pets or kids. Some people collect them as objects or status symbols and don’t really care about them.
That went dark very fast. I appreciate :D
I’ve never considered someone buying books as status symbols. But I can see that happening