Department of Manuscripts & Rare Books

Centre for Manuscripts & Rare Books

Catalogues and registers, reference, information desk. 27 reader's desks. Mon-Fri 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Wed 12 a.m.-7 p.m., Saturday closed.

REX, letter base, acquisitions 1924-87, online catalogues, systematic and alphabetical catalogue etc.

Latin manuscripts and fragments, selected Danish and other manuscripts from the middle ages till modern times.

e-facsimiles of rare printed books, Danish and foreign, particularly from the 16th and 17th centuries

Treasures in the Royal Library, Danish bookbindings, Flora Danica, Monsters, Constellations, Anatomy, etc.

The Royal Library
Manuscript Department
or Department of Rare Books
Box 2149
1016 Copenhagen K
Denmark

Tel. +45 3347 4429 (manuscripts), +45 3347 4460 or 3347 4428 (rare books.)

E-mail: cmb@kb.dk (manuscripts), bhs@kb.dk (rare books)