Not all spectacular discoveries are the result of digging through dirt with a trowel. Scholars from the Austrian Academy of Sciences "digging" through the Bibliotheca Amploniana in Erfurt, Germany, made a remarkable discovery when they turned up six previously unknown sermons attributed to St. Augustine.
The sermons, dating to the 12th century, were concealed in a medieval parchment manuscript they were studying. Some of the sermons were know only by their titles cited in Possidius' Indiculum.
Three sermons are on the topic of brotherly love and alms-giving, one is on martyrs Perpetua and Felicitas, and another on the martyr Cyprian who condemned alcoholic indulgence on saints' feast days. Another sermon discusses resurrection of the dead and biblical prophesies.
The manuscript, which may have originally been produced in England, was part of an enormous collection of 630 books donated in 1412. Click for more color images of the manuscript.
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