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På bedre papir … Belysning af en slags bogkultur
Authors: Ilsøe Harald
Published: March 2020

NB: Artiklen er på dansk, kun resuméet er på engelsk. Harald Ilsøe: On better paper … Elucidation of a book culture of some kind. During the years 1916-20, the Danish book market was characterized by a boom in the production of both paperbacks and by books, which were – or were passed off as being made of sumptuous “bibliophile” material by e.g. being printed on better paper or printed in a limited number of copies, which were numbered and some­times signed by the author. The paperback production has previously been treated in volume 45 (2006), whereas the bibliophile aspects, in particular the production of books on better paper such as Dutch or Japanese paper, were previously neglected in the literature on book history. This also applies to the previous course. The inves­tigation period stretches from approx. 1888 to 1921, but reviews the development since the 1600s when an overall decrease in paper quality caused selected books to be printed only in minor sub-editions on so-called writing paper or similarly to an extent which seemingly peaked around 1760-1810. A booklist stated in the appendix is in part compiled on the basis of book auctions and antiquarian catalogues. Besides documenting the prevalence of books in special material in general, it also shows that since the mid-1880s quite a few books were printed in minor sub-editions on special paper, which never entered the ordinary market.
C.F.E. Hornemans “Aladdin” – en mishandlet opera
Authors: Sørensen Inger
Published: March 2020

NB: Artiklen er på dansk, kun resuméet er på engelsk. The Danish composer C.F.E. Horneman (1840-1906) was himself of the opinion that his talent as a composer was particularly for dramatic music. And he had good reason. He began his undisputed masterwork, the opera “Aladdin”, when he was little more than 20 years old, having just returned home from studying in the music metropolis of Leipzig. He worked on the score for most of his life. There are several reasons for this. During the early years, the work proceeded well but, when Horneman’s father died in 1870, he had to put the score aside, take over their music publishing house and set about earning his living. Finally, after several failed endeavours as a concert organiser and conductor, Horneman found his place in Danish music life in 1879, as the head of his own music institute. But this took up so much of his time that he only rarely had the opportunity to compose, even though he considered this to be his main calling. It was only in 1883, when various personalities in the Danish music world, and Horneman’s friend, Edvard Grieg, arranged to have him granted a yearly state subsidy, that he was once again able to take up the “Aladdin” score. And yet it took another five years before he could submit the finished score to the Royal Theatre. Even though the sensors were satisfied with the music, Benjamin Feddersen’s libretto, based on the story from “A Thousand and One Nights”, caused problems. And so the production was shelved. Then, in the fall of 1888, the theatre decided to stage the opera at a gala performance on the occasion of Christian IX’s jubilee. This decision proved to be catastrophic for the opera. Only six weeks were allocated to rehearse this large and complicated work, resulting in various rash cuts. The opening night was a fiasco. The royal audience had no appreciation of this new Danish opera and the production left much to be desired. It was only 14 years later that Horneman achieved satisfaction, when a new, severely revised version was produced in 1902. It enjoyed full houses but, in spite of its success, the opera has never since been professionally performed in its entirety. The sheet music archived in the Royal Library clearly shows how much Horneman worked on the material from the onset. The four-volume score contains so many corrections and deletions that it could hardly be used as a production score. At the time of writing, the score from the 1888 production, which was in a terrible state of preservation, is being restored. The archived material is in such bad condition that a new, practical, scholarly version of “Aladdin” is needed if Horneman’s masterwork is to regain its rightful place in the Danish opera repertoire.
‘Den mest danske nordmand’? Breve til og fra Sigurd Hoel
Authors: Hertel Hans
Published: March 2020

NB: Artiklen er på dansk, kun resuméet er på engelsk. In the shape of a posthumous letter addressed to the Norwegian novelist, critic and editor Sigurd Hoel (1890-1960), the author’s personal mentor in his youth, this essay polemicizes against reductionist views of Hoel as a kind of neurotic reactionary. His achievement and his intellectual anabolism with Danish cultural life from the 1920s to the 1960s are reconstructed via newly found letters to three Danish correspondents: the artist Anton Hansen (1891-1960) and the writers Johannes V. Jensen (1873-1950) and Tom Kristensen (1893-1974), the first critic to fully appreciate Hoel’s art (in the daily Politiken). Sketching the Danish reception of Hoel, the essay aspires to a more just evaluation of him as a libertarian, anti-totalitarian cultural critic. An epilogue discusses the use of letters as a historical source and as a key to understanding how – in the words of the French critic Tzvetan Todorov – ”context becomes text”.
Justinus-håndskriftet i Det Kongelige Bibliotek GkS 450 2º : På sporet af dets scriptorium
Authors: Andersen Merete Geert
Published: March 2020

Merete Geert Andersen: Le manuscrit de Justin de la Bibliothèque royale du Danemark, GKS 450 2º. Sur les traces de son scriptorium   Quand on fait référence au XIIe siècle, on parle également de “la renaissance du XIIe siècle”. C’était une période de relance artistique et culturelle et de renouveau pour les classiques latins qui furent largement copiés au XIIe siècle. Des testaments nous ont appris que les auteurs classiques étaient appréciés et étudiés dans le Danemark du Moyen-âge. L’introduction de la Réforme luthérienne en 1536 a néanmoins balayé les auteurs classiques, dont les ouvrages furent convertis en feu d’artifice ou en reliure pour des dossiers d’archive. Nous avons toutefois la chance qu’un ouvrage d’auteur classique ait survécu à la Réforme, à savoir la copie manuscrite d’un texte de l’historien romain Justin comprenant l’Epitoma historiarum Philippicarum Pompei Trogi. Daté paléographiquement du XIIe siècle, le manuscrit est conservé à la Bibliothèque royale à Copenhague sous la cote GKS 450 2º. Il est d’autant plus passionnant qu’il servit à l‘historien danois Saxo Grammaticus lors de son élaboration de l’Histoire des Danois (Gesta Danorum) datant de l’année 1200 environ.   Pendant des siècles, les chercheurs se sont divisés sur la question de savoir si la copie fut réalisée en France ou au Danemark. Dans mon article, j’argumente en faveur d’une élaboration dans un scriptorium cistercien. La couleur du parchemin et la remarquable qualité calligraphique indiquent que le manuscrit n’a pas été copié au Danemark, mais à l’étranger. Cîteaux et Clairvaux entrent en ligne de mire. En 1144, l’archevêque Eskil de Lund fît venir des moines cisterciens de l’abbaye de Cîteaux à l’abbaye de Herrevad en Scanie. Puis en 1151, l’abbaye bénédictine d’Esrum dans le Nord du Seeland fut transformée en abbaye cistercienne habitée par des moines de Clairvaux.   Le main de GKS 450 2º ne ressemble pourtant à aucune main datée et associée au scriptorium de Clairvaux au XIIe siècle. En revanche, elle rappelle fortement des écritures de copies provenant du scriptorium de Cîteaux du XIIe siècle, et plus particulièrement le main de Dijon, Bibliothèque Municipale, 77, ms. 41, datant du milieu du XIIe siècle. Étant donné que le rédacteur de la copie de Justin utilise l’esperluette et la note tironienne à la place de la ligature du “e” et du “t”, il convient probablement de dater le manuscrit GKS 450 2º de 1175–1200.
Palaeographical observations on four medieval fragments of the Gesta Danorum of Saxo Grammaticus in The Royal Library
Authors: Gullick Michael
Published: March 2020

Michael Gullick: Palaeographical observations on four medieval fragments of the Gesta Danorum by Saxo Grammaticus in the Royal Library.   The four fragments of a total of three parchment sheets from one or more Saxo manuscripts from the 1300s, found and published between 1855 and 1877, and now archived in Capsule NKS 570 2º, were for a long time considered to belong to the same codex, but Ellen Jørgensen pointed out in 1926 that Fragment III, the Plesner fragment, represented an independent codex. The common origin of Fragments I and II, the Kall Rasmussen fragment and the Lassen fragment, respectively, was further substantiated by Erik Kroman in 1962 and Karsten Friis-Jensen in 1988. This paper demonstrates that, in spite of the fact that all three fragments share many codex-related and palaeographical characteristics, especially punctuation, very likely placing them in a Cistercian environment (there were 10 monasteries of this order in Denmark, including the Sorø Monastery established by Absalom), there are basic but overweighing reasons to assume that the three wholly or partially preserved leaves derive from three different manuscripts of the same size and make-up and that they were produced in the same environment, a possible indication of a specific project in the century after Saxo in the interests of promoting his work. The author points out that detailed palaeographical studies of the considerable number of manuscript fragments in the Royal Library and in the National Archives, many of which may be assumed to derive from manuscripts of Danish origin, could presumably shed more light on book production in Denmark in the 1300s and hence also on the questions discussed in the paper.
A Curious Harpour in Helle : An Edition of the Commentary on the Orpheus Metre of De consolatione philosophiae in Manuscript Thott 304 2º
Authors: Takala Aapo
Published: March 2020

Aapo Takala: A Curious Harpour in Helle. An Edition of the Commentary on the Orpheus Metre of De consolatione philosophiae in Manuscript Thott 304 2º   The article presents an edition of the commentary on the Orpheus Metre in Ms. Thott 304 2º. The manuscript is located at the Royal Library in Copenhagen and it contains an English verse translation of Boethius’s De consolatione philosophiae and an accompanying prose commentary. The manuscript, the translation, and the commentary are rare examples of literary culture in late medieval England. The manuscript can be dated to the early fifteenth century and it probably is the copy made specifically for the patron of the translation, the noblewoman Elizabeth Berkeley. In the sixteenth century it was used as exemplar for a printed edition of the translation: the printer’s markings can still be seen in the manuscript. The commentary is the most comprehensive medieval English commentary on De consolatione philosophiae, and only extant in this manuscript and in the sixteenth-century printed edition.   The manuscript has previously been studied in a handful of articles and one Master’s thesis. Thus far, there has been no extensive research on the commentary. In addition to the edition, the article includes a discussion of the manuscript’s background and an overview of previous research on it.
Speaking of Irony: Bournonville, Kierkegaard, H.C. Andersen and the Heibergs
Authors: Roth Colin
Published: March 2020

Colin Roth: Speaking of Irony   The purpose of this article is to draw attention to the ironic and satiric intent of a speech that the choreographer, August Bournonville, made in October 1861, and, in exploring its references, to shed light on the friendship-circles to which he belonged. Extensive quotations from contemporary documents – diaries, letters and published works – are employed to establish the character and concerns of the players, some of whom may not be familiar to specialists in the different disciplines represented here.
Saxos boginddelinger og deres ideologier
Authors: Boserup Ivan , Riis Thomas
Published: March 2020

In the first part of this joint paper on book divisions and their ideologies in the Gesta Danorum of Saxo Grammaticus (ca. 1200), Ivan Boserup points out that the edition of Saxo published by Karsten Friis-Jensen in 2005 is the first since the discovery of the Angers fragment in 1879, which is not in any way dominated by the endeavor to use the Angers fragment as a stepping stone for radical textual criticism of the Paris 1514 edition, i.e. the Editio princeps which is our main textual source to Saxo’s work. In contrast to the 1931 edition of Jørgen Olrik and Hans Ræder, and to scholars that have postulated that the Paris edition of 1514 was more or less rewritten throughout by a medieval or renaissance editor, Friis-Jensen has defended the text of the Paris edition by showing that it coincides basically with all medieval fragments (except the Angers fragment) and with medieval quotations and paraphrases. Although agreeing with Friis-Jensen’s approach, Boserup argues that Friis-Jensen has been misled to believe that the Compendium Saxonis stems from this ‘medieval Saxo-vulgate’ rather than from the manuscript of which the Angers fragment is a part, as argued in 1920 by Emil Rathsack.According to Boserup, the recognition of the Paris 1514 edition as Saxo’s last and final version of his work invites to a reconsideration of the alternative book division found in the Compendium Saxonis and, supposedly, in its archetype, the ‘Angers manuscript’.In the second part of the paper, Thomas Riis re-visits the book divisions which he previously treated in his dissertation in 1977. Combining a close textual analysis with evidence from seals, coins, imagery, and the arengae of charters, Riis suggests that the ‘original’ book division found in the Compendium Saxonis manuscripts reflects an “aggressive” royal ideology orchestrated by archbishop Absalon in the second half of the twelfth century. In contrast, the book division of the ‘medieval Saxo-vulgate’ represented mainly by the Paris 1514 edition can be interpreted as the result of the impact on Saxo of the ecclesiastically focused ideology of Absalon’s successor as Archbishop of Lund, the renowned theologian Anders Sunesen (Andreas Sunonis).
Kongens Stol i Domus Anatomica Hafniensis
Authors: Bruun Niels W.
Published: March 2020

The scientifically-minded King Frederik III often witnessed Thomas Bartholin’s anatomical demonstrations in the anatomy theatre at the University of Copenhagen. On these occasions the monarch, together with his courtiers, occupied what is called a conclave superius, which has been translated as ‘a private apartment on the first floor’.However, the accuracy of such an interpretation may be questioned, particularly because another source describes it as Kongens stol, ‘the king’s chair’. One must therefore inspect the meaning of this stol, which clearly corresponds to the Latin conclave. It consequently appears that stol here signifies a box, which is located aloft, that is, raised above the rest of the seats in the auditorium. Moreover, the king’s box was enclosed, inasmuch as it was provided with a lattice, so that the king and his attendants could survey the anatomical demonstrations unobserved.
Den mangfoldige Hume
Authors: Koch Carl Henrik
Published: March 2020

The Scot David Hume (1711–1776) and Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) in Holland were two of the greatest philosophers of the European Enlightenment. Whereas Spinoza’s Bible criticism was the inspiration behind the often clandestine tradition known as radical Enlightenment, Hume tried with all his might to wrest the science of mankind from the grip of theology and religion. Since the mid 19th century Hume’s philosophy has been interpreted as either scepticism, naturalism or first and foremost criticism of religion. In my article I describe these three very different interpretations and argue that, although Hume was in a certain sense a sceptic and strongly concerned to criticize the clergy and Christianity, yet both these traits of his thought are connected with his naturalistic and secularist philosophy. The title of the article is explained in its introduction, which describes his manifold interests.
Produktivitet og moral. Almanakkens anmærkninger og skillingsviser omkring 1800
Authors: Skouvig Laura
Published: March 2020

During the last decade a new research area, information history, has focused on the conceptualization of information as a cultural phenomenon in the broader historical framework. In my contribution, I explore the potential of information history in a Danish context at the beginning of the 19th century using two different kinds of texts: the notes by the royal Danish agricultural society in the almanac and broadside ballads. The main theme is to investigate how information was dispersed through the two different genres and how as genres they helped people orientate themselves in the informational landscape that produced the texts.The information in the notes of the almanac was strongly influenced by rationalistic and utilitarian thoughts of enlightenment in order to reform the agricultural sector in Denmark. In order to convince the farmer of the advantages of the new farming methods the information was linked to the notion of experience. However, it was a specific definition of experience as something that was systematic and tested as opposed to a perceived understanding of the farmer’s reliance on experience based on superstition.Furthermore, the notes in the almanac used information as instructions that could easily be transferred to the daily work on the farm thus sustaining the productivity of the farmer.Discussing the concept of information in relation to broadside ballads might at first glance appear to be a far-fetched endavour because the ballads are often associated with bloody descriptions of murder and crime; leaving the question of reliability open. However, the very poetic configuration was often accompanied by prose descriptions of the actual event based on newspaper reports. Thus the broadside ballads demonstrated a unique mixture of information as news and facts and information on morality. The poetic parts of the broadsides showed a keen interest in describing the deviations from normal social behavior and how these digressions were punished. In essence, the broadside ballads were part of a public negotiation of how the event in question should be interpreted.Finally, it should be stressed that there are no intentions as to make connections between the almanac and the broadside ballads. They have been examined in order to give a broad framework for discussing information contexts historically.
Bernadottenes boksamling i Norge, 1814-1905
Authors: Eide Elisabeth S.
Published: March 2020

In 1905 the union between Sweden and Norway was dissolved. Oskar II of Sweden. decided to donate parts of his private belongings to the Norwegian state, including the book collections at the Palace and in a building called “Paléet”. The Royal University Library (UBO) was granted permission to take out whatever books they wanted.In 1905 the book collection amounted to about 5,500 volumes. The origins of the two book collections are traced, with special reference to the royal preferences of the kings Oskar I, Karl 15. and Oskar II. Possible Norwegian preferences in regards to the selection of books, and the role of the Norwegian keepers of the books are discussed.What function the royal collections had in Norway, and why the books were not kept together is also an issue in this article.The 4,000 volumes selected by UBO today form the “Slottsbiblioteket” at The national Library. At the Royal Palace the 1,500 volumes are kept together under the name of “Bernadottesamlingen” (The Bernadotte Collection). An investigation into what considerations played a part in the then librarian’s selection of books, and why the two collections have come to take the form they have today, takes place in the last part of the article.
“Jeg er altid Herman Lynges Ven og Client!” C.F. Wegener som biblioteksbygger
Authors: Larsen Svend
Published: March 2020

C.F. Wegener (1802–1893) was a Danish historian and archivist. His activities as historian and as leader of the Danish national archives (1848–1882) are well known and described in literature. Wegener is also known as owner of a big private library, and he is one the very few Danish book collectors who had built a separate building for his collection. Wegener’s library was bought by the state in 1898 to be transferred to the new State Library in Aarhus which was being built at the time. The 40.000 volumes are still housed in the State and University Library.There is a printed catalogue of the library Bibliotheca Wegeneriana (1897; 4 vol.). It has a short introduction by Christian Bruun, head of the Royal Library, who had known Wegener. But otherwise Wegener’s activities as a library builder have not been described. This article is an attempt to remedy this. The articles is based on the 573 letters Wegener sent to his preferred bookseller Herman H. J. Lynge (1822–1897). The letters (now in the Royal Library) were written between 1853 and 1891 and they give insight in the character of Wegener’s book collecting.
Revolutionens morgenrøde. Kinesiske plakater i Det Kongelige Bibliotek
Authors: Lerbæk Pedersen Ben
Published: March 2020

The Royal Library’s collection of Chinese posters was acquired by purchases in 1978, 2004–2007, 2010 and 2012. In 1998 the Danish society Friends of China donated to the library its collection of exhibits and the remaining items from its sales collection of Chinese posters from the years 1968 to 1978. The Royal Library’s collection of Chinese posters now consists of 458 different posters and 278 duplicates. Some of the posters are made up of several parts, which together form a continuous story. The collection has one item which consists of 24 posters. The oldest poster is from 1950 and shows a black and white portrait of the minister of state Zhou Enlai (1896–1976). The most recent items are from 1983 and one of these is a portrait of the rehabilitated president Liu Shaoqi (1898–1969). The best represented period is from the “Great revolution in proletarian culture”, with about 400 different designs.The collection comprises three types of poster art. The first type consists of a unique design, while the second type is a reproduction of an already existing image, such as an oil painting, aquarelle or a woodcut. The third type is made by adding a text to a photograph.Nearly all of the posters have a title or accompanying text. Mostly these are placed outside of the image, but in some cases one or more short texts constitute part of the visual motive. The posters are for the main part in colour, even the photographs may be shaded blue or green to make them more visually arresting.The motives can be divided into four main groups:1. Politically important persons, where especially Mao Zedong (1893–1976) dominates2. Political agitation, a theme which is very obvious in the period of “cultural revolution”3. Campaigns, particularly for socialism4. I nformational and instructional posters, where the aim is to provide practical information, e.g. about all the products that one can make from a pigApart from the instructional posters, the posters are designed to convey a political wish of the ruling elite. This should be so clear and plain that the viewer is left no room for misunderstanding. All the motives are therefore naturalistic and convey their message together with a title, which usually takes the form of a slogan, e.g. “Long live the socialist proletariat”. The motives of the posters allow one to follow political developments from the first optimistic years before the “cultural revolution”, through the aggressive and hectic years of the “cultural revolution” itself, to the ostensibly idyllic times after Mao Zedong’s death in 1976. The posters also illustrate the place of women in socialistic China from the proclaimed equality to their actual role as servants of a maledominated society.
Anmeldelser
Authors: Jakobsen Jesper , Røllum-Larsen Claus , Monrad Kasper
Published: March 2020

Jesper Jakobsen anmelder:

Jakob Malik: Vilkår for offentlighet. Sensur, økonomi og transformationen av det offentlige rom i Danmark-Norge 1730-1770, 2011.

 

Claus Røllum-Larsen anmelder:

Jørgen Erichsen: Friedrich Kuhlau/Ein deutscher Musiker in Kopenhagen/Eine Biographie nach zeitgenössischen Dokumenten, 2011.

 

Kasper Monrad anmelder:

C.W. Eckersbergs dagbøger 1810-1853. Udg. af Villads Villadsen, 2008.
Maternity and Faith in the Copenhagen Bohun Women Saints’ Lives (Royal Library, Ms Thott 517 4º)
Authors: Vidas Marina
Published: March 2020

Ms Thott 517 4° is a small illuminated fourteenth century English manuscript thatprincipally contains three Anglo-Norman French texts composed by different authors,each narrating episodes from the life and afterlife of one of the three most popularfemale saints in England at that time - Mary, Christ’s mother, Margaret, the virgin martyr,and Mary Magdalene, the repentant harlot. One of the lives, that of Saint Margaret,is followed by an antiphon, a versicle, and a prayer. The manuscript was illuminatedin a very distinctive style associated with two artists working for the Bohun family, probablysome time after the death of Humphrey de Bohun (1342-1373), the seventh Earlof Hereford, sixth Earl of Essex and second Earl of Northampton. This article discussesthe reasons why this manuscript may have been intended for a female audience,perhaps for one or more of the close female relatives of Humphrey de Bohun - hiswife, Joan (1347-1419), his daughter, Eleanor (1367-1399), who married Thomas ofWoodstock, Edward III’s youngest son, in 1376 or his daughter, Mary (1370-1394), whoin 1381 wed the king’s grandson, Henry of Bolingbroke, the future Henry IV.I argue that Ms Thott 517 4° contains texts and images that would be appropriate forthe contemplation and instruction of a female audience. I show that the texts that wereselected for inclusion in the manuscript narrate the lives of two holy women who wereclose to and important for Christ and who were present at many of the central eventsof his life, as well as a virgin who was martyred because of her faith. I also show thatthe major illuminations in the manuscript depict the heavenly favours bestowed oneach of the holy women as a consequence of the lives they led. Thus a female audiencecould draw strength from the holy women’s examples. Additionally, in the article Idemonstrate that the three holy women whose lives were included in Ms Thott 517 4°were all believed to come to the assistance of women in labour.It is argued that the likely intended audience for Ms Thott 517 4° was a female who,more specifically, was about to enter or already was in her childbearing years. However,it is also suggested in this article that the Lives were not necessarily meant for theexclusive contemplation of one person. The Transitus mariae and the legend of MaryMagdalene deal with issues, such as faith, conduct and death, which might have hadrelevance for a widow. Furthermore, the Transitus text, with its focus on the lamentingmother of Christ, could have had a particular interest for the dowager countess, whois known to have commissioned the devotional poem, the Complaint of the Virgin. It is,therefore, suggested in this article that both Joan de Bohun and one of her daughterscould have been the intended audience of the Lives.
De danska böckernas långa väg till Helsingfors
Authors: Häkli Esko
Published: March 2020

The first Danish books to arrive in Finland were as Swedish spoils of war in the 17thcentury. Nearly all of these were however destroyed in the Great Fire of Turku of 1827.Only the grammar school library of Porvoo has books of older origin. Finland’s NationalLibrary (then the University Library of Helsinki) obtained the most importantpart of its present collection of older Danish literature in the form of imperial bookdonations from St. Peterburg. In 1833 was added the library of the Marble Palace,which for the most part consisted of Baron Johann Albrecht von Korff’s (1697-1766)private library, which he had built up during over more than two decades when he wasRussian ambassador in Denmark. A further significant donation (in 1836) was Petervan Suchtelen’s collection of European dissertations, including dissertations from theUniversities of Copenhagen and Kiel.The donation of the Korffska library brought c. 22.000 volumes along with the correspondingcatalogues to Helsinki. Since these books lacked ownership stamps and thelibrary had not been kept together as a single unit, verifying which volumes originatedfrom Korff proved to be an extensive research task. It could however be assumed thatall publications printed before 1766 in Denmark and the duchies originate from hislibrary. A quite obvious case in point is the collection Miscellanea, which consists of individuallybound and numbered combined bindings containing 2,266 separate works,and also a collection of older dissertations, around 2-3.000 in number. Thanks to theKorffska library the Finnish National Library owns a wide range of older Danish titles,of which some seem even to be lacking in The Royal Danish Library’s collection.The advent of new online catalogues has meant that research on historical collectionsnow has new tools available to it. The retroconversion of catalogues does howeverconceal a problem, which derives amongst other things from the thoroughness of theconversion. Furthermore, retroconverted catalogues often lack authority control, afact which the researcher must always bear in mind.
Immigrants and Elves. The Everyday and the Fantastic in Danish Photographical Children’s Books
Authors: Meyer Mette Kia Krabbe
Published: March 2020

When you think of children’s picture books, the first images that come to mind willmost likely be drawings. However, in the 1950s a quarter of all children’s picture bookswere illustrated with photographs. The article gives an overview of the Danish photographicalpicture book tradition, which dates back to Fotografiske Børnegrupper (Photographsof groups of children) published in 1866, consisting of photographs by HaraldPaetz and short poems by Hans Christian Andersen. It covers documentary stories,i.e. books that present the lives of children around the world. Some of these convey adecidedly social and political message. This article also covers books in which photographyserves to enhance the imagination, and presents supernatural beings or humanizedanimals and objects.
Resemblance and Devotion: Image and Text in a Parisian Early Fourteenth–Century Book of Hours Made for a French Noblewoman
Authors: Vidas Marina
Published: March 2020

Marina Vidas: Resemblance and Devotion: Image and Text in a Parisian Early Fourteenth-Century Book of Hours (Copenhagen, Royal Library, Ms Thott 534 4º) Made for a French Noblewoman

The focus of this article is Ms Thott 534 4º, a small Parisian early fourteenth-century illuminated Book of Hours in the collection of the Royal Library, Copenhagen, about which up until now, very little has been published. Firstly, the textual and pictorial contents of the manuscript are listed. Secondly, the specific elements in the book which indicate that it was made for a woman are analysed. The article pays particular attention to the representation of the book’s owner and to other images of women in Ms Thott 534 4º. Additionally, possible readings of the juxtaposed images and texts relevant to the original owner of the manuscript are explored. Thirdly, the significance of the presence of Norman saints in the Calendar and memoriae, as well as of hagiographic material invoking saints that had a cult following in France and England are discussed. Fourthly, the components which reveal that the original book owner had connections to Paris are enumerated and analysed. It is shown that there are stylistic and iconographic similarities between Ms Thott 534 4º and two other Parisian personal devotional manuscripts, the Psalter and Hours of Blanche de Bourgogne (New York, New York Public Library, Ms Spencer 56) and a Psalter-Hymnal (Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery, W. 115) which, in all likelihood, was made for Blanche de Bretagne (c. 1270–1327). These similarities suggest that the three manuscripts are likely to date from around the same time. Drawing on the hagiographic and pictorial material in Ms Thott 534 4º, it is concluded that the Book of Hours was executed around 1310 for a lady with connections to Paris, Evreux, and possibly England. More specifically, Marguerite d’Artois, Countess of Evreux (1285–1311), is proposed as a possible candidate as the original owner of the manuscript.
Anmeldelser
Authors: Rasmussen Stig T. , Lind John , Jakobsen Jesper , Bohn Robert
Published: March 2020

Stig T. Rasmussen anmelder: Tusind og én Nat. Udg. af Ellen Wulff & Kim Witthoff. 2013John Lind anmelder: Den Ryssiske Lov 1649. Oversat og kommenteret af Rasmus Æreboe 1721. Udg. af Lars P. Poulsen-Hansen. 2013Jesper Jakobsen anmelder: Raymond Birn: Royal Censorship of Books in Eighteenth–Century France. 2012Robert Bohn: John T. Lauridsen (udg.): Werner Bests korrespondance med Auswärtiges Amt og andre tyske akter vedrørende besættelsen af Danmark 1942-1945. 2012
“Regeringens henstillinger har ikke lydt forgæves” Erik Scavenius’ møde med pressen 14. september 1942
Authors: Lauridsen John T.
Published: March 2020

John T. Lauridsen: The government’s recommendations were not voiced in vain. Erik Scavenius’ meeting with the press on 14 September 1942

Erik Scavenius did not hold many major press conferences in his time as Foreign Minister, nor as Prime Minister and Foreign Minister in the period 1940–43. An exception occurred on 14 September 1942, when a great number of issues coincided and led him to hold a large scale meeting in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to explain simultaneously to prominent members of Danish press, politicians and civil servants what the government’s policy was, how the government and its policy was handled in the press and in particular, how the government’s policy should be presented. Both the government’s partners and the press were severely criticized and it was implied there was a government mole so that confidential information was being leaked. The press needed to understand its responsibility at this difficult time in Denmark. The people from the press were allowed to respond and on the whole were seemingly receptive to the instructions. What took place at the meeting was not reported in the newspapers the following day. Instead, background material was provided with the intent of counteracting tendencies in the press running counter to government policy.
Randnoter til en Holbergbog
Authors: Ilsøe Harald
Published: March 2020

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Mordet i Finderup Lade og det tabte Pergamentcodex – eller Jagten på den Forsvundne Skat
Authors: Clausen Svend
Published: March 2020

Svend Clausen: The Murder in Finderup Barn and the vanished Parchment Codex, or Raiders of the Lost Manuscript

In 1286 the Danish King Erik Klipping was murdered under mysterious circumstances in a barn in Finderup, Jutland. This murder has become one of the most iconic events in Danish history and its mysteries remain unsolved. The following year some apparent perpetrators were proscribed. Most of these were powerful Danish noblemen and the Royal official Lord High Constable Stig became the most notorious of these. The sentence has been heavily debated.Already during the 1500s and early 1600s these events were described by contemporary Danish historians. Their versions of events have generally not been deemed important as it was believed that they had their knowledge solely from sources still available today.This article, however, shows that historians of this age actually did possess a now lost parchment manuscript that most likely contained the source material from the original trial following the murder. The existence of this so-called Constable Stig-manuscript has been forgotten until now, but its existence can actually be verified with certainty from manuscript lists from this age – most clearly in a manuscript list from 1595. The manuscript is also mentioned in handwritten notes by Anders Sørensen Vedel, one of the renowned historians of that age. In footnotes he made references to this manuscript, because he used its textual contents for his historical works.Apparently the Constable Stig-manuscript is also mentioned in 1608, maybe then for the last time, and at some point after this it was lost and forgotten about. Likely it burned in 1728 together with the rest of the university library. Sadly, none of its most likely important textual contents survives today. Even a debate in the 1950s regarding the source material for this murder ultimately failed to bring this lost manuscript into renewed focus.Even though its source material remains sadly lost, the existence itself of this manuscript is still important: First of all, the existence of such a manuscript shows that an actual trial must have been held in the aftermath of the murder. Even this has seemed somewhat unclear, because of the scarcity of the preserved source material. Finally, the existence of this manuscript forces us to begin looking at the works of these old historians in a different way. In the coming years it will be important to examine the preserved historical works and manuscripts of these historians thoroughly to reveal whether this can shed any new light upon any of the lost source material from the Constable Stig-manuscript.
Un Deu Enemi. Jews and Judaism in French and English Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts in the Royal Library
Authors: Vidas Marina
Published: March 2020

Marina Vidas: Un Deu Enemi. Jews and Judaism in French and English Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts in the Royal Library

The article analyzes images of and texts about Jews and Judaism in five medieval illuminated manuscripts in the collection of the Royal Library, Copenhagen. I begin by examining the references to Jews in a bestiary (MS GKS 3466 8º) composed in the twelfth century by Philippe de Thaon for Queen Adeliza of England and copied a century later in Paris. Then I analyze depictions of Jews in a French early thirteenth-century personal devotional manuscript (MS GKS 1606 4º) as well as in a number of related de luxe Psalters and Bibles in foreign collections. Textual references to Judaism and Jews are examined in a compilation of saints’ lives (MS Thott 517 4º) as well as depictions of individuals of this faith in an Hours (MS Thott 547 4º), both made in fourteenth-century England for members of the Bohun family. Lastly, I analyze images illustrating legends derived from the Babylonian Talmud in a Bible historiale (MS Thott 6 2º), executed for Charles V of France (r. 1364–1380).I argue that images depicting Jews in narrative cycles had a number of meanings, some of which can be interpreted as anti-Jewish. I suggest that the images also played a role in shaping the piety of their audiences as well as the intended viewers’ understanding of their social identity. Indeed, depictions of Jews in the manuscripts seem mostly unrelated to the actually existing Jews. Members of the Hebrew faith were often represented in contexts in which their appearance, beliefs, and activities were distorted to emphasize the holiness, goodness, and perfection of Christ and the Virgin Mary. It is also suggested that their representations may have spurred a reflection on, and sometimes even a criticism of, Christian behavior and attitudes.
Knud Rasmussen og grønlandspolitikken
Authors: Michelsen Knud
Published: March 2020

Knud Michelsen: Knud Rasmussen and Greenland politics

It is the general view that the polar explorer Knud Rasmussen (KR) was only involved in Greenland politics to a limited extent, i.e. the policies which Denmark as a colonial power exercised in Greenland. However, in reality, that was not the case at all. The misunderstanding has arisen firstly because the sources have not been studied in sufficient detail, secondly because KR’s opinions on Danish policies have not been given the weight they are due, and thirdly because the background for his often unconventional methods of operation has either been overlooked or simply not acknowledged. KR’s political activities manifest themselves in particular in the following contexts: after his return from the Danish Literary Expedition (1902–04), in connection with a lecture tour in West Greenland in 1909, during his participation in the Greenland Commission in 1920, in a series of articles published the same year, in a speech to the assembled Danish parliament in 1925, and during his appearance in connection with the Eastern Greenland Case in The Hague in 1933. All these are mentioned in the article in order to create an overview of how KR’s views developed. Throughout is the role which he assumed for himself as spokesman for Greenlanders and polar Eskimos, a role which at the same time prevents a more party-political or ideological involvement. In this role, he often expressed critical views of the colonial administration, largely in relation to both business policies and the lack of progress in introducing autonomy/self-government. After 1918, another political role becomes important: that of acting as a bridge-builder between Denmark and the Greenlanders. This, which partly conflicted with his role as spokesman, is behind the fact that, from the late 1920s, it is possible to observe an approximation between KR’s views and official Greenland policy, not least associated with the collaboration with Danish Prime Minister Thorvald Stauning.In particular, the article refers to a comprehensive report which, on the basis of the lecture tour in 1909, was prepared for the Danish Ministry of the Interior. The report has only recently been found, and contains a long story that looks extensively at KR’s highly charged political views, the colonial administration’s reaction to them and how some of KR’s views could be exploited by others, including the Norwegians in the Eastern Greenland Case in 1933. As the article shows, many people wanted to cite KR to support their own views. He therefore had to navigate carefully in order not to be caught up in the Danish debate and fail in his role as spokesperson. However, he was not only a spokesman, but nurtured his own vision of how Greenland should develop, linked to his role as a bridge-builder. And it was this which, at the end of the day, was the most important. Therefore, he was not a nation-builder as well.
Carl Nielsens ikke-realiserede operaplaner
Authors: Krabbe Niels
Published: March 2020

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Findes der skønhed i leksikografi?
Authors: Pálfi Loránd-Levente , Wolgast Karin , Hoff Kjeldsen Tinne
Published: March 2020

Loránd-Levente Pálfi, Karin Wolgast & Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen: Towards an aesthetics of lexicography

In this paper, we examine a subject which has apparently never before been the object of research or published intellectual reasoning. The question is if such a thing as a beautiful dictionary or encyclopedia exists, i.e. if we can address lexicographic beauty conceived of as the sum of various inner qualities of lexicographic reference works while stripping our concept of the external properties of books such as bindings, cover, the quality of paper and print, layout, user-interface, etc. After investigating aesthetic qualities as established in other academic fields, of which mathematics and literature have been selected as representative for the purpose of developing a complementary paradigm, the article undertakes a tentative definition of lexicographic beauty.
Festival OFFF: Hacia un cambio de modelo – Introducción
Authors: Albaladejo Carlos , Córcoles César , Rodríguez René
Published: March 2020

La lista de festivales de gran público de Barcelona hace tiempo que ya no es Sónar, Primavera Sound o Summercase. Desde hace unos años se les ha añadido OFFF: el festival de cultura digital cada vez toma más características de sus parientes musicales. Con el tiempo, el Offf se ha convertido en un festival masivo, inundado por turistas más o menos culturales y «fashion» que aprovechan la excusa para pasarse un fin de semana largo en Barcelona, convergiendo sobre la Ciudad Condal desde todos los puntos de la geografía europea, primero, y mundial, cada vez más.
Publishing in the time of COVID-19
Authors: Eisen Michael B , Akhmanova Anna , Behrens Timothy E , Weigel Detlef
Published: March 2020

eLife is making changes to its policies on peer review in response to the impact of COVID-19 on the scientific community.
Identification of key genes and pathways affected in epicardial adipose tissue from patients with coronary artery disease by integrated bioinformatics analysis
Authors: Tan Liao , Xu Qian , Wang Qianchen , Shi Ruizheng , Zhang Guogang
Published: March 2020

Background

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a common disease with high cost and mortality. Here, we studied the differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) and subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) from patients with CAD to explore the possible pathways and mechanisms through which EAT participates in the CAD pathological process.

Methods

Microarray data for EAT and SAT were obtained from the Gene Expression Omnibus database, including three separate expression datasets: GSE24425, GSE64554 and GSE120774. The DEGs between EAT samples and SAT control samples were screened out using the limma package in the R language. Next, we conducted bioinformatic analysis of gene ontology terms and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes pathways to discover the enriched gene sets and pathways associated with DEGs. Simultaneously, gene set enrichment analysis was carried out to discover enriched gene functions and pathways from all expression data rather than DEGs. The PPI network was constructed to reveal the possible protein interactions consistent with CAD. Mcode and Cytohubba in Cytoscape revealed the possible key CAD genes. In the next step, the corresponding predicted microRNAs (miRNAs) were analysed using miRNA Data Integration Portal. RT-PCR was used to validate the bioinformatic results.

Results

The three datasets had a total of 89 DEGs (FC log2 > 1 and P value < 0.05). By comparing EAT and SAT, ten common key genes (HOXA5, HOXB5, HOXC6, HOXC8, HOXB7, COL1A1, CCND1, CCL2, HP and TWIST1) were identified. In enrichment analysis, pro-inflammatory and immunological genes and pathways were up-regulated. This could help elucidate the molecular expression mechanism underlying the involvement of EAT in CAD development. Several miRNAs were predicted to regulate these DEGs. In particular, hsa-miR-196a-5p and hsa-miR-196b-5p may be more reliably associated with CAD. Finally, RT-PCR validated the significant difference of OXA5, HOXC6, HOXC8, HOXB7, COL1A1, CCL2 between EAT and SAT (P value < 0.05).

Conclusions

Between EAT and SAT in CAD patients, a total of 89 DEGs, and 10 key genes, including HOXA5, HOXB5, HOXC6, HOXC8, HOXB7, COL1A1, CCND1, CCL2, HP and TWIST1, and miRNAs hsa-miR-196a-5p and hsa-miR-196b-5p were predicted to play essential roles in CAD pathogenesis. Pro-inflammatory and immunological pathways could act as key EAT regulators by participating in the CAD pathological process.