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

Comments

[thespian15]

Very cool. :o
Hugs, Jon

[chaquir]

oh wow! That's really cool!
I wonder if they can find out new details and all.

[thewayne]

It'll be interesting, they'll certainly learn about books and authors lost to history, and some of that info will be useful because that information can be cross-referenced to other information that was known but couldn't be corroborated. But a lot of the info will only be interesting for its own sake as it will be simply self-contained as the only information will be what is in the entry as the book is lost. Some day a copy of the book may be found, but for now, the entry will be all that remains.