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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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[–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago

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"?

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