Talk:Libro de los Epítomes

A couple of misinterpretations
If you follow the Guardian's link to https://manuscript.ku.dk/news/a-new-discovery-in-the-arnamagnaean-collection/ it makes clear that:


 * It's not that 20 entries were in Spanish, it was ignored because it's one of only about 100 foreign language books in a massive collection of Scandinavian manuscripts, of which approx. 22 were Spanish.
 * It is one of 16 such tomes, 14 of which are known and housed with the rest of the remaining collection. Still, that means ~1000 manuscripts that might be lost today are summarized within.

SilverbackNet talk 05:50, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Good point. Attempted a fix.  sirlanz 06:05, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

Did you know?
... that in 2019, Libro de los Epítomes, a library catalogue by Ferdinand Columbus, was rediscovered after nearly 500 years? – But I can't find this fact in the article? The article says 2013, not 2019? Jens Lallensack (talk) 05:04, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

In 2013, Associate Professor Guy Lazure of the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada visited Copenhagen, and (amongst other things) examined the manuscript in situ. He came to a conclusion that the manuscript (that lacks the first ~140 entries) was both originating from Spain, and that he thought that this was a volume from Libro de los Epítomes. In 2019, when the Danish collection was being reexamined, University of Copehnagen reached out to all scholars who visited over the last 10 years, asking if they discovered anything about the books they studied, and if any publications resulted. That's when findings of Guy Lazure became widely known.

So yes, both 2013 and 2019 are correct.

More information here: https://manuscript.ku.dk/motm/hernando-colons-book-of-books/

--Urokugaeshi (talk) 09:24, 23 April 2021 (UTC)

Manuscript images
Images of the entire manuscript are available here: This should probably be added as an external link.

The current 'fair use' photograph fails WP:F, has no fair use rationale and should be deleted. A 2-D scan from the above link could serve under a PD-Art license. Or you could write the institute and ask for a freely licensed image - they might well oblige. Haukur (talk) 22:19, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I followed my own suggestion and uploaded a photograph of one page. I picked one with some corrections and marginal notes. Haukur (talk) 23:09, 24 June 2019 (UTC)