Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,

so that you may be able to prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 12 2. This is resistance and reformation on the Fight, laugh,

Feast Network. If you had to guess who might have built the greatest library in the world

during the 16th century high Renaissance and Magisterial Reformation,

you can hardly be faulted for supposing that it would have been the Medici's of Florence or the

Sforzas of Milan, the tutors of Westminster, or the Capetians of Paris. Perhaps you would hazard a hunch that it would have been one of the

popes in the Vatican or the Dons from a great university at Bologna, Oxford, Cambridge, Salamanca, Padua,

Krakow, or Siena. All good guesses, but all incorrect.

The greatest library in the world was financed, built, and meticulously maintained

by a relatively obscure Andalusian scholar, lawyer, ambassador, lexicographer, etymologist, adventurer, and cosmographer Hernando Cologne, the youngest son of

Christopher Columbus. He attempted to collect and catalog every single printed book in the world,

along with every printed poster, pamphlet, broadside, and flyer, and he very nearly

succeeded. It was an astonishing feat. It is an astonishing story. And until less than a decade ago,

it was a feat and a story that could not be told.

But thanks to a chance discovery of the dusty archives of the University of Copenhagen,

it is a story that we ought not overlook.

What some scholars have dubbed the Holy Grail of Books was found in the archives at the

University of Copenhagen, a massive handwritten bibliotheca Columbia manuscript. It is more than a foot thick,

contains more than 2,000 folio pages, indices, and summaries from the library.

It was accidentally found and identified in 2018 by the Canadian researcher Guy Lazar from the University of Windsor. Apparently untouched for more than

350 years, the catalog documenting tens of thousands of books, many of which no longer exist,

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