'Extraordinary' 500-year-old library catalogue reveals books lost to time

Sat, 11 May 2019 23:51:29 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/10/extraordinary-500-year-old-library-catalogue-reveals-books-lost-to-time-libro-de-los-epitomes>

"It sounds like something from Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s The Shadow of the
Wind and his The Cemetery of Forgotten Books: a huge volume containing
thousands of summaries of books from 500 years ago, many of which no
longer exist. But the real deal has been found in Copenhagen, where it
has lain untouched for more than 350 years."

Via Esther Schindler.

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