Major Manuscript Find in Romania

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Secret Alias
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Major Manuscript Find in Romania

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Epoch discovery in the bridge of the Evangelical Church in Mediaș: old books and documents, some of them 1,200 hundred years old
ARTICLES • SEPTEMBER 17, 2022 • EDITORIAL • 25 COMMENTS
More than 150 volumes, old documents, manuscripts, some estimated to be hundreds of years old, were discovered in the attic of a church in Mediaş by Prof. Dr. Adinel Dincă, from "Babeş-Bolyai" University in Cluj, reports Agerpres .


The professor from Cluj declared, on Saturday, for AGERPRES, that the discovery was not accidental, but there was information about the respective book depository.


"It is about an old library, which was stored in one of the church towers. We now had the opportunity to start research in a project that will last two years. We had indications from the old literature, from the 19th century, that some books would be preserved. We estimate that it would be 30-40, maximum 50 volumes and we have already exceeded 150 discovered volumes, plus old documents. It was known that there was an old book there, but it was not known what exactly and in what volume. So, it is not a random discovery, that we would have looked for something else and found an old book. I knew there was something, I had vague indications, but I didn't know the details", said Adinel Dincă for Agerpres.

He added that it is a humanistic, scholarly, very refined library, with books mostly in Latin.

"The local community knew about the existence of the book fund, but they did not know the details, the scientific value, they did not know the details of a professional nature. The book was protected, it was in a closed space. It is a library with books in the Latin language in the vast majority, school texts, related to the local school and to theological education", stated the teacher from Cluj, who added that their state of preservation is generally very good, although there are some parts that would require restoration.


The Batthyaneum Library announced that the book collection is part of the archive of the Evangelical Church of St. Margaret in Mediaş and that the discovery "resembles one of the stories of Indiana Jones."

"A team of specialists, led by university professor Dr. Adinel C. Dincă (UBB Cluj), discovered a whole collection of books, manuscripts and documents in the archive of the Evangelical Church of Saint Margaret in Mediaş. The discovery resembles one of the stories of Indiana Jones, more precisely, a completely forgotten archive, the fight with the kingdom of pigeons to recover it, the amazement in front of the discoveries made, their importance for the history of the circulation of ideas in the medieval period in Transylvania", it is stated in a Batthyaneum Library Facebook post.

According to the representatives of the library, it is about 139 volumes, printed (before 1470-1600), two manuscript volumes, the first decades of the century. XVI, approximately 60 original documents from the XIV-XVI (with some original pieces and copies from the XVII century), about 10 administrative registers of the parish of Mediaş from the century XVII-XVIII which preserve fragments of medieval manuscripts (they have been preliminarily identified – mss. 9th-10th centuries, mss. 12th century fin., mss. 13th century Paris, liturgical mss. 14th-15th centuries).

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Re: Major Manuscript Find in Romania

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Ironically Romanian is one foreign language I do speak. Not that it helps much here.

The question is, some implication that "Biserica Evangelica" might be Germanic, obviously Catholic at the time.

This means these could be old Teutonic Catholic texts which survived the turmoil of reformation and counter-reformation in a German enclave at the edge of the world.
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