From Julilla1@aol.com Sat Apr 1 08:50:03 2000 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id IAA15196 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2000 08:50:02 -0800 From: Julilla1@aol.com Received: from imo17.mx.aol.com (imo17.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.7]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id IAA24302 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2000 08:50:01 -0800 Received: from Julilla1@aol.com by imo17.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v25.3.) id d.98.34debec (4546) for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2000 11:49:51 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <98.34debec.261782ae@aol.com> Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 11:49:50 EST Subject: Re: Lost Manuscript To: classics@u.washington.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL for Macintosh sub 146 In a message dated 4/1/00 4:10:02 AM, dmeadows@idirect.com writes: << The book itself was discovered when shelving was being replaced in one of the many reading rooms of the Vatican Library. "We knew the book existed because it appears in catalogs dating from the fourteenth century, but it seems to have fallen behind some shelves years ago and forgotten." >> This is the best news I've heard in ages!! I can't believe it. How does one just 'lose' something like this? What the hell else is behind shelves sitting for centuries? Can someone please just go poking around under the floorboards and behind more shelves for whatever else might be sitting there? I'm volunteering! K O'Ceriann .