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https://www.univie.ac.at/voeb/blog/?p=48883 macht auf ein neues Buch (Auszüge) aufmerksam, das sich mit der Bibliothek des unehelichen Sohns von Christoph Columbus, Ferdinand/Hernando Colon (gestorben 1539) beschäftigt, der 15.000 Bücher zusammentrug und von ihnen Zusammenfassungen im "Libro de los Epitomes" zusammentrug."After Colón’s death in 1539, his massive collection ultimately ended up in the Seville Cathedral, where neglect, sticky-fingered bibliophiles, and the occasional flood reduced the library to just 4,000 volumes over the centuries. Luckily, 14 of the volumes of the Libro de los Epítomes index survived, and are now held at the Biblioteca Colombina in Seville, an institution that manages the collection.Thousands of miles away from Seville, though, one of the lost copies survived, tucked away at the Arnamagnæan Institute at the University of Copenhagan, which houses the vast library of Icelandic scholar Árni Magnússon. Professor Guy Lazure of the University of Windsor in Canada was there when he realized the foot-thick, 2,000-page tome he was looking at may have been one of the lost volumes."Read more: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/book-lost-books-was-discovered-danish-archive-180971943/#buchgeschichte