[MR] BBC: Leonardo MS discovered

[Marybeth Lavrakas]

And after all, a lot of time I've seen archive catalog entries that say 
"collected documents." Not entirely helpful. Plus I've done document requests 
where the archive would deliver to me not a document, or a bound group of 
documents, but a giant cardboard box containing, yes you guessed it--collected 
documents. Nothing like unfolding items from the 12th - 15th century while 
looking for that 16th c piece of parchment you've been assured is in that same 
box, somewhere! Very distracting...(grin) And very easy to put the wrong item 
back in a box if you were foolish enough to have two such boxes on the table in 
front of you at the same time.

Kateryn Rous

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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