E-resources - dance

Old Danish dance instructions
Dance descriptions in full text, mostly from the beginning of the 19th century by J.G. Lund, Aug. Bournonville, J.F. Martinet, P.J. Kaastrup and O.G.F. Bagge - and an anonymous from the 18th century: Maître de Danse oder Tantz-Meister

Bournonville's ballets (music)
Piano scores for the ballet music - to bee seen online af printed out.

Programme articles from The Royal Theatr e in Copenhagen (in Danish)
REX-database with the articles in full text. Search on authors, plays, operas, ballets and years etc.

Theatre collections

The collections of the Drama Collection contain aprroximately 36.000 manuscripts and prints of Danish and foreign theatre texts. Several other theatre collections in the National Library provide documentation and information about Danish theatre history

The composer Michael Praetorius' dedication to king Christian 4th

Web exhibitions - mixed materials

See the gems of the online library and the dangers threatening some of the objects

Features in Focus

Digital presentations of treasures from the library, Hans Christian Andersen and Søren Kierkegaard, The Poma manuscript, plates from the Danish flora and Archive of Danish Literature

Electronic resources from The Royal Library

The Royal Library has a considerable collection of digital resources based on its own collections, including both digital facsimile editions, web exhibitions and guides to information searches.

Prayer Book from the 17th century in silver binding

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