Collections

Danish Collections (The National Collections)

Danish books and periodicals acquired by legal deposit or purchase

Danish newspapers

Danish newspapers and local papers

Manuscript Collections and Archives

Manuscripts from the Middle Ages, papers, diaries and letters, notes and drafts.

Copenhagen

The Collection of Prints and Photographs

Collection of Prints and Photographs

Denmark 1570

The Map Collection

Map Collection

Signature from J.S. Bach's cantata 'Mein herze schwimmt im Blut'

Music Collections

Online music, scores, sheet music, the orchestral collection and sound recordings in The Royal Library.

Da Capo illustration

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

Batak tube

The Oriental Collection

Orientalia in the National Library

Cod. Heb. 37, fol. 202a

The Judaica Collection

Judaica in the National Library

Publications of International Organisations

EU/EF, Council of Europe, UN, GATT/WTO, ILO, NATO, OECD, OSCE, UNESCO, UNIDO and WIPO

Old bindings

Old collection of foreign prints

Exiting old books about all subjects and special collections of books in many fields.