Treasures in the Royal Library


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NEWS AUGUST 2004

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The book in the Middle Ages

The Bible in Latin. c. 800-820. Biographies of Anselm and Malachias. c. 1200.
The Martyrdom of St. Edmund. c. 1050. The “Roskilde Psalter”. 13th c.
Menologion for November. 1050-1100. Livy translated into French. c. 1500.
Evangelistary from Munkeliv Monastery. 12th c. Holiday prayer book in Hebrew. 1506.

 

Printing in the Renaissance

Apokalypsis Sancti Johannis. 15th c. P. Aemilius Veronensis: De rebus gestis Francorum. [c. 1517].

 

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The books of Frederik III – the oldest Royal Library

Martin Luther a.o.: Concordia. 1580.

 

The East in Europe

Salâh al-Dîn al-Safadî: Kashf al-hâl fî wasf al-khâl (Uncovering the circumstance in describing the mole in poetry). 17th c. (?).

 

Manuscripts, letters, diaries …

G. Brandes: Lecture on the Emigrant Literature.

 

Music and theatre

Gabriel Voigtländer: Erster Theil Allerhand
Oden Vnnd Lieder. 1642.
The Danish royal anthem. c. 1770.

 

Bookbindings

J. de Bourbon: La ... oppugnation de ... Rhodes. 1527. Peter Lautrop and Kristine Suhr: The Pop-Up Book. 1998.
S.L. Giraud (ed.): Bookano Stories. [c. 1937]. The Perfection of Wisdom … Nepal 1511.
Une histoire des images. 1995.

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