Dear Michael,
Thanks for the URL! Yet what I find a bit difficult to understand is
1) why anybody should be particularly excited about finding a ms fragment
of the Sententiae and having to pay $60 for it. Manuscripts or the
Sententiae are not exactly rare, are they? "The head of the rare books
collection, Mr Denis Rowe, said the manuscript was one of the university's
most important acquisitions": does this indicate a particularly undeveloped
state of the rare book collection at Newcastle (in which case we might want
to send them some of our used books), or am I missing something essential?
2) why it needed "an Indiana Jones story" of sleuthing plus the help of
several members of the classic department to identify the text. Aren't
there any scholars of the medieval persuasion at Newcastle (I thought we
had even some of them on our list)?
Puzzled, but sincerely yours,
Otfried
At 23:37 17.11.00 -0800, you wrote:
>Dear Esteemed Colleagues,
>
>for a lovely example of "when good things happen to good people,"
>here, via the New York Carver Newsletter,
>is the tale of the unearthing of a part of the Libri Quattuor Sententiarum.
>Come see what $60 can buy, on a particularly good day.
>
><http://www.smh.com.au:80/news/0011/15/text/national13.html>http://www.smh.com.au:80/news/0011/15/text/national13.html
>
>jmichael
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