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Frederik II King of Denmark 1559-1588. |
Crowned monogram, FS, here placed on the front cover. FS can mean either Fridericus Secundus (Frederik the Second) or Frederik and Sophie, Sophie (1557-1631) being Frederik II’s queen. Andreas Hondorff: Historien unnd Exempelbuch (1582). |
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Frederik II King of Denmark 1559-1588. |
Portrait on the front cover. Bruder Felix: Eigentlich beschreibung der hin unnd wider farth zu dem Heyligen Landt ... (1557). |
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Christian IV King of Denmark 1588-1648. |
Crowned monogram, C4, here placed on the front cover. Christoff Dambach: Büchsenmeisterey (1609). |
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Christian IV King of Denmark 1588-1648. |
Initials, C IIII R D ET N (Christianus Quartus Rex Daniae Et Norvegiae), here placed on the front cover, above and below the royal coat of arms. Johannes Georg Godelmann: De magis, veneficis et lamiis, recte cognoscendis & puniendis (1591). |
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Christian Prince Elect of Denmark (1603-1647). |
Monogram, C5, encircled by a crowned wreath of oak leaves. Here placed on the front cover. La Bible, qui est toute la saincte Escriture du Vieil & du Nouueau Testament (1610). |
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Frederik III King of Denmark 1648-1670. Founder of the Royal Library. |
Crowned monogram in gold, F3, placed in the top compartment of the spine. Two types exist (see below). Eusebius: Euangelicæ præparationis Lib. XV (1544). |
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Frederik III King of Denmark 1648-1670. Founder of the Royal Library. |
Crowned monogram in gold, F3, placed in the top compartment of the spine. Two types exist (see above). [Ch. de Souvigny-Sorel:] L’histoire de la monarchie francoise sous la regne du Roy Louis XIV (1662). |
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Christian V King of Denmark 1670-1699. |
Crowned monogram, C5, placed in the top compartment of the spine. Samuel de Pufendorf: De rebus a Carolo Gustavo Sveciæ rege gestis (1696). |
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Christian V King of Denmark 1670-1699. |
Crowned monogram, C5, with the motto “Pietate et justitia”, here placed on the front and back covers. Peder Jensen Morsing: Exempla literarum typographicarum ... (1691). |
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Frederik IV King of Denmark 1699-1730. |
Crowned back-to-back monogram, F4, here placed on the front cover. The dedicatory copy of Tormod Torfaeus: Rerum Norvegicarum historia (1711). |
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Christian VI King of Denmark 1730-1746. |
Crowned monogram, C6, placed in the top compartment of the spine. Julius Pollux: Onomasticon (1541). |
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Christian VI King of Denmark 1730-1746. |
Crowned back-to-back monogram, C6, placed in the top compartment of the spine. Johann Jacob Mascou: Geschichte der Teutschen ..., Vol. I (1726). |
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Frederik V King of Denmark 1746-1766. |
Crowned monogram, F5, here placed in the top compartment of the spine and on the front as well as the back cover. The binding may be ascribed to Jacob Wilhelm Boppenhausen. M. Outhier: Journal d’un voyage au nord, En 1736 & 1737 (1744). |
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Frederik V King of Denmark 1746-1766. |
Crowned back-to-back monogram, F5, placed in the top compartment of the spine. Collectio scriptorum rerum historico - monastico-ecclesiasticarum variorum religiosorum ordinum, Tom. I-IV (1756). |
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Christian VII King of Denmark 1766-1808. |
Crowned monogram, C7, here placed in the top compartment of the spine. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Beyträge zur Optik, Stück 1-2 (1791-1792). |
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Christian VII King of Denmark 1766-1808. |
Crowned monogram, C7, here placed on a title panel in the top left corner of the front cover. Dares: Historia exidio Troie (1518). |
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Christian VII King of Denmark 1766-1808. |
Crowned back-to-back monogram, C7, here placed in the top compartment of the spine. Les Frères de Merian: Recueil de cent et vingt vues et villes de France gravees (1777). |
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Frederik Crown prince of Denmark, the future King Frederik VI (1808-1839). (Alternatively, Frederik (1753-1805), son of Frederik V). |
Crowned monogram, F, here placed at the top of the spine. M. Noverre: Lettres sur la danse, sur les ballets et les arts, Vol. 1 (1803). |
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Frederik VI King of Denmark 1808-1839. |
Crowned monogram, FR (Fridericus Rex) VI, placed at the top of the spine. Theodorus Gazas: Grammaticae institutionis libri duo, sic translati per Erasmum Roterodamum … (1521). |
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Christian Frederik Crown prince of Denmark, the future King Christian VIII (1839-1848). |
Crowned monogram, CF, here placed on the front cover. Fürstenspiegel (1798). |
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Christian Frederik Crown prince of Denmark, the future King Christian VIII (1839-1848). |
Stamped crowned monogram, C.F., here placed on the title page. P.-A.-Ascension Garros: Esprit de la morale universelle (s.a.). |
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Christian VIII King of Denmark 1839-1848. |
Crowned monogram, CR (Christianus Rex) VIII, placed in the top compartment of the spine. Klopstock: Werke, Vol. 1: Oden 1-2 (1798). |
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Frederik VII King of Denmark 1848-1863. |
Crowned monogram, FR (Fridericus Rex) VII, placed in the top compartment of the spine. Ernestus Guilielmus Weber: Demosthenis Oratio in Aristocratem (1845). |
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Christian IX King of Denmark 1863-1906. |
Title panel of the Royal Library, placed in the top left corner of the front cover, with the crowned monogram of Christian IX, CR (Christianus Rex) IX. Erasmus of Rotterdam: Epistola de Causa Lutheri (1520). |
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Christian IX King of Denmark 1863-1906. |
Title label of the Royal Library, placed in the top left corner of the front cover, with the crowned monogram of Christian IX, CR (Christianus Rex) IX. Ayn Sendbrieff von wegen der lutherischen Ler etc. (1524). |
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Frederik VIII King of Denmark 1906-1912. |
Crowned monogram, FR (Fridericus Rex) VIII, here placed in the top compartment of the spine. Found in different variants. See examples of variant 1 and variant 2. Max Dvořák (ed.): Kunstgeschichtliches Jahrbuch der K. K. Zentral-Kommission für Erforschung und Erhaltung der Kunst- und Historischen Denkmale (1907). |
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Frederik VIII King of Denmark 1906-1912. |
Crowned back-to-back monogram, F8, here placed in the top compartment of the spine. Found in different sizes. Here is an example of a smaller one. Paul Heitz (ed.): Christus am Kreuz. Kanonbilder der in Deutschland gedruckten Messbücher des fünfzehnten Jahrhunderts (1910). |
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Frederik VIII King of Denmark 1906-1912. |
Crowned back-to-back monogram, F8, here placed in the top compartment of the spine. Also found on title labels of the Royal Library, placed in the top left corner of the front cover. Th. Westrin (ed.): Nordisk familjebok. Konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi, Vol. 14 (1911). |
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Christian X King of Denmark 1912-1947. |
Crowned back-to-back monogram, CX, here placed on a label at the top of the spine. Nicolaus de Lyra: Historie van den heilighen Joseph (c. 1550). |
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Christian X King of Denmark 1912-1947. |
Crowned back-to-back monogram, CX, here placed on the pastedown. Ildefonso Ioseph Flores: Arte de la lengua metropolitana del reyno Cakchiquel o Guatemalico ... (1753). |
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Christian X King of Denmark 1912-1947. |
Title panel of the Royal Library, placed in the top left corner of the front cover, with the crowned back-to-back monogram of Christian X, CX. Martin Luther: Wider die sturmenden Bawren (1525). |
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Frederik IX King of Denmark 1947-1972. |
Crowned monogram, FR (Fridericus Rex) IX, here placed in the top compartment of the spine of a book box. Lafcadio Hearn: Japanese Fairy Tales, 4 vols. (1898-1903). |
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Margrethe II Queen of Denmark 1972-. |
Crowned monogram, M2R (Regina), here placed in the top left corner on the front of a book box. P.-A.-Ascension Garros: Esprit de la morale universelle (s.a.). |