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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?
Ah, in that case, yes, but not so much European libraries. Most European collections are pretty well-categorized and catalogued at this point, including private collections. However, some places, like Mali, still have massive archives that we can read (or rather, at least specialists can read), and have access to, but much of the material is unknown and uncatalogued simply because of decentralized storage and a lack of scrutiny until relatively recently.
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 )
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.