[MR] BBC: Leonardo MS discovered

[Sandra Rangel]

Well, in their defense, it was among 5,000 other documents AND was
written backwards in code ;) It will be interesting to know what it
says.

Now think of how many times you lost a piece of note paper scribbled
with something important and couldnt find it among the less than 100
documents one might have in possession. ;0)

Rohesia Anven of Thessalonica



On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Garth G. Groff <ggg9y at virginia.edu> wrote:
> Noble friends,
>
> Here's an interesting little BBC piece on the rediscovery of a lost Da Vinci
> manuscript: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11936080 . Amazing that a
> public library in France should not know that they had this treasure (at
> least from a librarian's perspective). After this and a lost Mozart score,
> one wonders what other rare works are among this forgotten collection. What
> are catalogs for anyway?
>
> Kind regards,
>
>
> Lord Mungo Napier, Shire of Isenfir's Unofficial Librarian
> (mka Garth Groff, UVA Library cataloger
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