Book of Lost Books Discovered in Danish Archive (2019)
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Book of Lost Books Discovered in Danish Archive (2019)
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#2Extraordinary find! (While also heartbreaking to read that so many literary works have been lost.)
For another list of lost books, check out:
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#3Extraordinary find! (While also heartbreaking to read that so many literary works have been lost.) For another list of lost books, check out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_literary_work
Makes me think of the Library of Alexandria. Such a great, great shame to think of all the knowledge lost forever.
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#4> and plan to collaborate with the Arnamagnæan Institute to digitize the newly discovered volume.
This just makes me want to scream. When finding an irreplaceable book, the first thing to do is take a photo of each page with a phone. It'll take a whole hour or two. Then there's a backup.
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#5> and plan to collaborate with the Arnamagnæan Institute to digitize the newly discovered volume. This just makes me want to scream. When finding an irreplaceable book, the first thing to do is take a photo of each page with a phone. It'll take a whole hour or two. Then there's a backup.
There is a world of difference between “phone snaps of pages in library lighting” and a proper digitization of an antique book.
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#6Am I reading this right that they now have 15 volumes out of the 16 total volumes? Have they looked around in Denmark to see if the last ones is there also?
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#7> and plan to collaborate with the Arnamagnæan Institute to digitize the newly discovered volume. This just makes me want to scream. When finding an irreplaceable book, the first thing to do is take a photo of each page with a phone. It'll take a whole hour or two. Then there's a backup.
There is a world of difference between “phone snaps of pages in library lighting” and a proper digitization of an antique book.
Also this book is nearly 500 years old, and is a foot thick and 2,000 pages. Just turning all the pages might cause serious damage. (But yes, the sooner it's digitized the better.)
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#8Am I reading this right that they now have 15 volumes out of the 16 total volumes? Have they looked around in Denmark to see if the last ones is there also?
It seems the index was incomplete.
From [a link from inside https://icolombina.es/ that doesn't work if there isn't a session, I removed it]:
Of 3500 epítomes that were mentioned in Memorial al Emperador (report for the Emperor) Biblioteca Colombina keeps the following numbers: 509-576 (h.1r.-24v.), 697 (incomplete beginning)- 723 (incomplete ending) (h. 25r.-42v.), 881 (incomplete beginning)-956 (h. 43r.-74v), 957-1207 (h. 75r.-180v.), 1208- start of 1258 (h. 181r.-202v.), final of 1258-1316 (h. 203r.-227v.), 1317-1364 (incomplete ending) (h. 228r.-252v.), 1412-1550 (incomplete ending) (h. 253r.-516v.), 1576-1605 (incomplete ending), 1989 (incomplete begining)-2024 (incomplete ending?) (h. 527r.-538v.), 2183-2205 (h. 539r.-550v.), 3107-3130 (incomplete ending?) (h. 551r.-562v.)
Also in http://www.icolombina.es/colombina/bibliograficos.htm there's a more complete story of copies and how they tried to create a systematic index... as an example, you can read a reference to 1635 books of the collection that were lost when a ship sunk from Venice to Seville.
The part in Seville was recorded in microfilm years ago and it's possible to consult there. It doesn't seem to be online.
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#9> and plan to collaborate with the Arnamagnæan Institute to digitize the newly discovered volume. This just makes me want to scream. When finding an irreplaceable book, the first thing to do is take a photo of each page with a phone. It'll take a whole hour or two. Then there's a backup.
There is a world of difference between “phone snaps of pages in library lighting” and a proper digitization of an antique book.
Not if your goal is to capture the text. I've used a phone for this purpose many times with nothing more than room lighting.
Don't believe me? Try it yourself, right now!
Remember that the HP archives burned down while waiting for a "proper digitization". Oops.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is a world of difference between “phone snaps of pages in library lighting” and a proper digitization of an antique book.
Also this book is nearly 500 years old, and is a foot thick and 2,000 pages. Just turning all the pages might cause serious damage. (But yes, the sooner it's digitized the better.)
I'm sure they already opened it and looked through it to see what it was. After all, there's a picture of it, open, with the article.