"'Extraordinary' 500-year-old library catalogue" Topic
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 11 Apr 2019 10:25 p.m. PST |
…The Libro de los Epítomes manuscript, which is more than a foot thick, contains more than 2,000 pages and summaries from the library of Hernando Colón, the illegitimate son of Christopher Columbus who made it his life's work to create the biggest library the world had ever known in the early part of the 16th century. Running to around 15,000 volumes, the library was put together during Colón's extensive travels. Today, only around a quarter of the books in the collection survive and have been housed in Seville Cathedral since 1552… link |
| dwight shrute | 12 Apr 2019 11:18 a.m. PST |
wonder what happened to the other 3/4 of the collection |
| SOB Van Owen | 12 Apr 2019 3:08 p.m. PST |
Looks like a lot of fines out there for overdue books. |
| Zephyr1 | 12 Apr 2019 9:07 p.m. PST |
"wonder what happened to the other 3/4 of the collection" Probably lost to water damage, bugs, and other people stealing the books for their own libraries… |
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