Libro de los Epítomes

[3] To create the Libro de los Epítomes, Columbus used a team of readers and writers to prepare a summary of each book in his library.

[4][5] The catalogue was positively identified in 2019, after Guy Lazure of the University of Windsor in Canada suggested it could be a "bibliographical tool" from Ferdinand Columbus's library.

[4][5] N. Kıvılcım Yavuz suggests that the volume might have arrived in Denmark together with a collection of manuscripts brought by Cornelius Lerche, an envoy to the Spanish court.

[7] According to University of Cambridge academic Edward Wilson-Lee, author of a recent biography of Columbus and account of his library, The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books, "It's a discovery of immense importance, not only because it contains so much information about how people read 500 years ago, but also, because it contains summaries of books that no longer exist, lost in every other form than these summaries".

[4] In December 2019, Matthew James Driscoll from the Arnamagnæan Institute at the University of Copenhagen was awarded a three-year research grant by the Carlsberg Foundation to conduct further studies on the manuscript.