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Are there any "text caches" that we still are not sure what's inside? (en.wikipedia.org)
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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?

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[โ€“] INeedMana@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

A-ha! That's what I've been looking for :) Thank you

Do we know about other such chronicles? (Do we have an index of such chronicles? ;D )

[โ€“] PugJesus@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

I don't know of any list or index of such resources, unfortunately. I do know that there are similar caches of texts in Ethiopia, especially Ethiopian monasteries, and, though less expansive, also on the Swahili Coast.