Taming the beast: Transcribing Hernando Colón’s Libro de los epítomes
In 2019, manuscript AM 377 fol. of the Arnamagnæan Collection in Copenhagen was identified as the fair copy of the Libro de los epítomes, one of the main catalogues of the 16th-century library of Hernando Colón. This finding prompted the development of a research project centered on the Libro as a k...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2025 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Sevilla (US) |
| Repositorio: | idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:idus.us.es:11441/180202 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/11441/180202 https://dx.doi.org/10.12795/PH.2025.v39.i02.01 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Libro de los Epítomes transcripción de manuscritos codificación TEI Hernando Colón Libro de los epítomes manuscript transcription TEI encoding Biblioteca Capitular Colombina |
| Sumario: | In 2019, manuscript AM 377 fol. of the Arnamagnæan Collection in Copenhagen was identified as the fair copy of the Libro de los epítomes, one of the main catalogues of the 16th-century library of Hernando Colón. This finding prompted the development of a research project centered on the Libro as a key source for the understanding of the functioning of Colón’s library, possibly the largest in the world at the time. This article introduces the project and describes the Copenhagen copy of the Libro de los epítomes, its nature, the circumstances of its arrival and preservation in Denmark and its role in Colón’s library. It further reports on the TEI transcription of the manuscript developed as part of the project, focusing on a few noteworthy methodological and technical aspects of the enterprise and on the insights gained in the course of the project. |
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