No :D

But then my question is, do we feel there are a lot of such collections? Or rather not?

To rephrase a little bit:
“Are there places where someone could pull off another Petrarch today?”

• yes
• no
• a few
• a lot
• only in Africa (see the answer in AskHistorians)

That went dark very fast. I appreciate :D

I’ve never considered someone buying books as status symbols. But I can see that happening

Ok, sure. But you still buy them to read them

🤔 Isn’t reading them the point of collecting?
You seriously made me wonder :D

But still, even if they don’t read them, they know they have them. So the collector and the seller know that such book exists and is somewhere out there and the owner knows they have such title in their stash

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 )

Yes, for sure. But then that’s a “lost cache”. Similar to the works we’ll find in a few years buried somewhere under the ground. But what about “active collections”?

Interesting indeed

But also those two are cases when we discovered more or less “working copies” of interest.
Has there been a similar find of a text that was copied and given (I’m trying to broadly cover a meaning of “published” here)

Thank you!

I guess the community of private collectors might have (doesn’t have to be institutionalized, centralized nor digital, just the fact of knowing is enough) as a group some kind of grasp on who has what. But is that fact known?

Thank you, but not exactly. I am more wondering if in general we know what texts we have. Being unable to read does not mean we don’t know about it

To rephrase the question: do we know that for example most of collections are catalogued, we just are not sure what some texts are
or maybe we know that there are many/few where some work might be just lying on a shelf without anyone aware it is there

Huh, that’s an example of what I’ve been looking for

What phrase should I search for to learn more about the archive?

But do we know if those have been generally indexed?

Yes, but that is a case when we knew we had them, we just couldn’t read them. I’m wondering if at least “index” of readable contents of most “libraries” is for sure known, mostly known or maybe there are many we don’t know what’s inside

Yes, but that is a case when we knew we had them, we just couldn’t read them. I’m wondering if at least “index” of readable contents of most “libraries” is for sure known, mostly known or maybe there are many we don’t know what’s inside

I also switched to scripts. Aliases tend to break in loops with modified IFS

I think that having any kind of recognizable email is against the idea of privacy. So I would set up the following layering:

1. Mozilla Relay/TempMail (randomized email accounts)
   for most of shops, job applications, etc. If it leaks you can easily disable the account and/or rotate it on periodic basis to limit the cross-database matching (the privacy part)
2. a few separate domains for things where you can’t stop receiving mails or having an account is really worth it

• one for banks
• one for government
• one for the few shops where the first layer is not enough
• one for private exchange

1. the provider that can change

No, on work laptop

“Tell me it’s Friday without saying it’s Friday” ;)

But to the point, yeah, my current job tried to convince me to switch to Windows. I tried, it was miserable experience, it broke in 3 days and all that was even before the current Windows ludicrousness

Oh, it’s a “type your pick”, not a list of choice. Interesting

Um, Is this just me,
or the title kip-ups like
hadouken Bruce Lee?