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The Western manuscripts collections of The Royal Library, Copenhagen, total approximately 30.000 manuscripts and archival deposits, beside more than 100.000 autograph letters. Acquisitions of Manuscripts and archival deposits have since 1987 been catalogued in MARC format in the library's OPAC. Older collections are catalogued (retro) since 2006. In all, 24.000 records are currently available, representing such collections as Gammel Kongelig Samling, Ny Kongelig Samling, Thott, E don. var., Additamenta, Fragmentsamlingen, and Acc.
The retro project is due to be completed by 2009.
The collections span 1400 years, from 600 to 2000, feature all Western languages, and include the holdings of the Copenhagen University Library that was re-established after The Great Fire of 1728. The modern holdings include the totality of the papers of Søren Kierkegaard, and very rich collections of manuscripts of H.C. Andersen and Henrik Ibsen.
Complete digital facsimiles of medieval and modern manuscripts have been published on the web since 1998, with links from the records.
The following portals to our particularly important holdings may be of general interest:
Codices Latini Haunienses (CLH)
Fragmenta Latina Hauniensia (FLH)
H.C. Andersen Online (in Danish)
Per Højholt: Manuscripts of modernistic poems (in Danish)
The Guaman Poma Website (illustrated Peruvian manuscript, with transcription; in Spanish)
The digital facsimiles - more than 150 in number - can also be overviewed and accessed here
The collection of autograph letters can be searched here