How exciting to find hoarded/forgotten texts in an age when non destructive palimpsest analysis through modern imaging techniques has improved leaps and bounds.<p>Who knows what lies underneath the top layers of usage?<p>Texts were copied laboriously by hand. Each one carrys stories of where it came from. It could inform trade links from monastic scribe houses across the globe. It could have DNA fragments of value.<p>It almost certainly has pictures of cats in it, somewhere. Doing strange things with snails.
The next step would be digitizing the books and manuscripts so scholars can collectively research the finding.<p><a href="https://www.medievalists.net/?s=digitizing&submit=Search" rel="nofollow">https://www.medievalists.net/?s=digitizing&submit=Search</a><p>I wonder what the cost of this digitization process would be and what research labs can render this service.
I love smoky old churches. Sadly so many of them (especially in off-the-beaten-path places) were constructed with wood and various accidents (candles, short-circuits) burned them to the ground. Not the same even if fully reconstructed...
When I saw "Romanian" I figured the medieval texts were Byzantine and therefore might contain ancient Greek fragments. Since the library belonged instead to Transylvanian Saxons, that's probably not the case.