Special collections in the Map Collection

Frederik V's atlas:
3535 engraved and manuscript maps and prospects, from all parts of the world, in 55 volumes bound in the 18th century. 4 volumes concern Denmark.
The manuscript maps are described in: Ib Rønne Kejlbo: Manuscript maps in the Frederik den Femtes Atlas. 1969, ICCK Kejl. Read the book here.
The digital facsimile allows the user to browse through the volumes.
If a map in the atlas has a record in the librarys online catalog: REX, the title information appears beneath the digitized map.

Atlas Major:
Engraved and manuscript maps and prospects, from all parts of the world, in 64 volumes, collected before 1750.

The Engineer Corps Collection:
Manuscript maps of fortifications etc. in the Duchies of Schleswig-Holstein and the former Danish colonies and some foreign localities from 17th-19th century.

The Hinrich Rink collection:
The collection of manuscript maps of Greenland from the 19. century contains about 140 maps drawn by Rink and other cartographers. Described in: Merete Nibak: Bibliografi over Rinks Samling af kort over Grønland på Det Kongelige Bibliotek. 1982. ICCK MEM Niba. The collection is digitized and are available in REX.

Manuscript map of Greenland drawn by Hans Egede 1737.

The Lauge Koch collection:
Maps from the arctic area.

Lafreris' Atlas, a loose-leaf-atlas, printed ca. 1550:
The Danish collection of 70 maps is digitized and available as a link from the record in REX.

Map of Corfu from Lafreris' Atlas.

The globe collection:
32 old and new globes, terrestrial and celestial. Some of the globes are described in: Ib Rønne Kejlbo: Rare globes. 1995. ICO Kejl

Maps in large size:
About 150 maps in very large formats are stored in special drawers, these maps are digitized, and are available as a link from the record in Rex.