Book of Lost Books Discovered in Danish Archive: The First Search Engine?

The illegitimate son of Christopher Columbus, Hernando Colon, collected somewhere between fifteen and twenty thousand books over the course of his life in the 16th century and employed a group of scholars to create an index of all the works, Libro de los Epitomes. 14 of the 16 indexes survived in Seville, however, 2 remained missing. Until now, when 1 of the books was found at the University of Copenhagen.

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