Hermetic texts come out of the Nag Hammadi jar

An Egyptian farmer digging for fertiliser opens a sealed jar of thirteen codices. Alongside the Gnostic gospels are three Hermetic pieces, including the Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth.

Physical proof that these libraries were one library. Whoever buried that jar in the fourth century did not think of ⁂ and ✧ as separate shelves — and this annex's arrangement of doors is, at that point, a modern convenience with an ancient counter-example.