News from The National Library 2011

Detail from Cod. Sim. Heb. 70, fol. 278b

The David Simonsen Manuscripts

Browse more than 170 manuscripts in Hebrew, Yiddish, Italian, Judeo-Arabic ... online!

Music manuscripts registration now online

Registration of about 700.000 - among them about 5,000 from The Royal Library - music manuscripts now available online

Aerial Photos of Denmark 1944

Aerial Photos of Denmark, taken in 1944 by the German Luftwaffe, have now been digititzed, georefered and are available to everyone on the net

Modelling the cost and quality of preservation imaging and archiving

PhD defense by Ulla Bøgvad Kejser August 19, 2010

The Waldere-fragments online

The two so-called "Waldere-fragments" originates from an epic poem in ancient English, dating from about the year 1000. The fragments were discoverede in 1860 by the head of The Royal Library, E.C. Werlauff, and can now be seen online

The Offices and Masses of St. Knud Lavard

In connection with The Royal Library, Prof. John Bergsagel has published this famous manuscript from the beginning af the 13th century in Kiel's University Library containing the oldest written piece of Danish church music.

Atlas Sive Cosmographica Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura Gerard Mercator 1595.

Maps, Myths and Narratives

Exciting exhibition about the cartography of the Far North. See colourful maps, breathtaking pictures and have a look at the fauna of the Arctic area.

Astronomiæ instauratæ mechanica

The astronomical instruments of Tycho Brahe as he described them in his book from 1598.

Manuscripts from the Søren Kierkegaard Archive at The Royal Library

Samples of drafts and fair copies, reflecting the author's own viewpoint on his work.

'Catalogue' by Fuzzy

An artistic decoration for The Black Diamond with 52 electro-acoustical works, played every day at 1.00 p.m. for 3 minutes and inspired by treasures in The Royal Library

Copy of Virtus Schade's biography of Danish artist henry Heerup, bound by Ole Lundberg after a motive by Heerup

Modern art of bookbinding in The Black Diamond

See the exhibition near the concert hall (Dronningsalen) with prolific examples from Denmark and abroad: foreign artists Paul Bonet and Thérèse Moncey - Danish artists Preben Bech, Per Svendsen, and Ole Lundberg.

Round church from the island of Bornholm

Travelling through Denmark

Exhibition at The Royal Library (entrance through The Black Diamond) with maps and pictures from the whole of Denmark.

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

Collections

Extensive, fascinating collections of manuscripts, books, newspapers, pictures, maps, music, theatre, drama texts and a lot of other materials and subjects