The catalog of the library of son of Christopher Columbus was just found!

[thewayne]

This is really cool! Hernando Colón was a huge collector, he bought all sorts of books, not just Plato and high-brow stuff, so this will be quite an insight into books of the time. Obviously a lot of those books no longer exist, it will be interesting to see how many still do.

But the cool part is that it is HUGE - over 2,000 pages! And Hernando hired people to read all the books and write summaries! It's a descriptive catalog! And the photos in the catalog are gorgeous!

The book is in the process of being translated, and when done, it will be released publicly so anyone can read it. Should be quite interesting.

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/24/716600905/christopher-columbus-son-had-an-enormous-library-its-catalog-was-just-found

Comments

[dewline]

....just...wow.

[thewayne]

That's what I said!  Going to be REAL interesting when the translations are finished and released!  A coffee-table book a foot thick!  Man, I'd love to see this for myself, I hope they put it on display.

[kellan_the_tabby]

ohhhhhhh WOW

[kellan_the_tabby]

*reads the article* oh FUCKIN WOW

[thewayne]

LOL! Yeah.

[silveradept]

That will be very interesting to see the results of. I wonder what volumes he was trying to collect, and how any of them might still have an existence today, whether in reprints or excerpts or other situations.

[thewayne]

It will be interesting.  Hard to say how many books that he cataloged still exist, I guess we'll know eventually.  I'm curious if there are books that he cataloged that exist but are of unknown authorship that will be identified because of this project.

[silveradept]

That would also be very cool.

[howsmyenglish]

this does sound cool!

[thewayne]

I am so looking forward to seeing what the book contains!