RL Archive E 8: Willum Worm, Catalogus 1671

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RL Archive E 8: Willum Worm, Catalogus 1671

Paper, 20ff., ca. 30,5 × 20,3 cm; Copenhagen 1671

E 8 in the archive of the Royal Library allegedly is a catalogue of the accession of printed books and manuscripts in the king’s library while Peder Schumacher (later Griffenfeld) was its curator, i.e. from 1661-1670. The catalogue was made by Willum Worm, the successor of Schumacher, and signed and dated by him on January 4th, 1671. However, a substantial amount of books and manuscripts that had been recorded by Schumacher himself in 1665 (cf. RL Archive E 8 a) were not included. Thus Worm’s Catalogus of 1671 enlists printed books that were acquired for the library from 1666 to 1670, as well as 127 manuscripts, dating from ca. 1200 to 1670, that were received or recorded in the library in the same period

Bibl.: Chr. Bruun, Det store kongelige Bibliotheks Stiftelse under Kong Frederik den Tredie og Kong Christian den Femte, København 1873, passim. - Harald Ilsøe, Det kongelige Bibliotek i støbeskeen. Studier og samlinger til bestandens historie indtil ca. 1780, København 1999, p. 574-581 & passim. - Erik Petersen, Wulfstans kodex og Schumachers liste. Om den ældste fortegnelse over håndskrifter i Det Kongelige Bibliotek, in: Fund og Forskning 48, København 2009, p. 7-56 (Summary p. 54-56: Wulfstan’s Codex and Schumacher’s List. On the Oldest Record of Manuscripts in the Royal Library) [offprint online]

Erik Petersen