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Rostgaard, Fabretti og dal Pozzos “Papir Museum”. Nogle aftryk af antikke indskrifter i Det Kongelige Bibliotek og to hovedværker i barokkens internationale lærdomskultur
Authors: Kragelund Patrick
Published: March 2020

NB: Artiklen er på dansk, kun resuméet er på engelsk. Patrick Kragelund: Rostgaard, Fabretti and the Dal Pozzo “Paper Museum”. The article discusses a series of late seventeenth century squeezes of Greek and Roman inscriptions in the Manuscript Department of the Danish Royal Library. The squeezes are relevant for understanding two of the period’s most ambitious antiquarian and scientific Roman projects, those of Rafaello Fabretti (1619-1700) and the brothers Cas­siano (1588-1657) and Carlo Dal Pozzo (1606-89). Both projects were based in Rome of the High Baroque and both focus on the visual, the former as a means of recon­structing the texts of ancient inscriptions, the latter to assemble visual evidence for the renowned Dal Pozzo “Paper Museum” (Musevm Chartacevm) ultimately aimed at illustrating all the categories of objects constituting the visible world. The evidence consisting of 29 sheets was acquired in Rome in 1699 by the Dan­ish scholar Frederik Rostgaard (1671-1745). Summarizing the arguments for reject­ing the old idea of Rostgaard having manufactured the squeezes himself, the article briefly outlines the reasons for accepting their intimate links with the grand project of Fabretti, showing how the Rostgaard material in fact offers hitherto discarded new evidence for the reading of ten ancient inscriptions. However, the article’s main focus is on discussing what the material shows about the project of Fabretti and his in many respects innovative methods in using standardised, mechanical means for assembling textual and visual evidence. The second section discusses some hitherto discarded or misapprehended links between the projects of Fabretti and that of the Dal Pozzo brothers. Two Dal Pozzo drawings (ill. 5-6), now in the British Museum, are shown to be copies of an inscrip­tion (now in Urbino, CIG 6238 = IGUR 1228) and a squeeze (Rostgaard no. 18 = ill. 7) in what was then Fabretti’s collection; a third and closely related Dal Pozzo draw­ing (ill. 8), also in the British Museum, copies a further inscription (CIL 6.3424) that was detected and – on the basis of a squeeze – edited by Fabretti; rather than on the original inscription, the said Dal Pozzo drawing may well be based upon Fabretti’s squeeze. In any case, the recovery of these inscriptions is datable to 1684 and 1687, thus in­cidentally raising questions about the overall validity of the commonly accepted chro­nology for the ordering of this section of the Dal Pozzo collections. Attempts to date the acquisition of large numbers of drawings to before and after 1682seem contra­dicted by this new evidence. Thus the three Dal Pozzo drawings discussed above all seem datable, not to before 1682, but to between 1687-89, the latter being the year in which the death of Carlo Dal Pozzo put an end to the great project.
A Tale of Two Revolutions. On a Few Enlightenment Finds on the Shelves of The Royal Library
Authors: Bredsdorff Thomas
Published: March 2020

Om Joseph Marshall og oplysningstidskriftet l'Esprit de Journaux.Artiklen er på engelsk.
Monddistanzen und Längengrade. Der Briefwechsel zwischen Carsten Niebuhr und Tobias Mayer 1761.
Authors: Lohmeier Dieter
Published: March 2020

NB: Artikeln er i sagens natur på tysk, kun resuméet er på dansk.Denne artikel er et supplement til min artikel om Carsten Niebuhr, Tobias Mayer og længdegraderne, trykt i Fund og Forskning 2008. Nu offentliggøres fem hidtil utrykte breve fra 1761, to fra Niebuhr til Mayer og et svar fra Mayer samt to til J.H.E. Bernstorff og dennes sekretær C.F. Temler. Sammen med disse sendte Niebuhr længdegradsbestemmelserne fra sørejsen fra Marseille til København, der var bestemt for Mayer. Alle brevene handler om Niebuhrs forsøg på at prøve Mayers metode til længdegradsbestemmelser på havet i praksis og at hermed understøtte sin lærers ansøgning om den engelske længdepris. I indledningen belyses endvidere for første gang Niebuhrs møde med eksperimentalfysikeren Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein fra København, der hidtil kun har spillet en rolle i forskningen i forbindelse med den Arabiske Rejse på grund af sine stridigheder med Petrus Forsskål. Det viser sig, at Niebuhrs samtaler med Kratzenstein i København i det sene efterår 1760 også drejede sig om længdegradsbestemmelse på havet. Ich danke Günther Oestmann (Bremen) für die kritische Durchsicht des Manuskripts und Vibeke Vinge (Kopenhagen) für die Übersetzung der Zusammenfassung.
På felttur i fortiden. Etnografien bag bogen om folkloristen Evald Tang Kristensens fodtur blandt folk på heden 1873
Authors: Christiansen Palle Ove
Published: March 2020

NB: Artiklen er på dansk, kun resuméet er på engelsk. The article deals with the interdisciplinary, methodological background to the book, De forsvundne. Hedens sidste fortællere [The Disappeared. The Last Storytellers From The Moors], by Palle Ove Christiansen and Else Marie Kofod (2011). The publication integrates work methods from folklore, history and anthropology. The point of departure is a presentation of selected ballads and folk tales recorded by the world’s greatest folklorist, Evald Tang Kristensen (1843-1929). Rather then publish the material in the form of literary genres or the informants’ personal repertoire, the authors chose to present it in the way it was collected “in the field” on one of Tang Kristensen’s walking tours on the heaths of Jutland in 1873. This perspective draws much more attention to the modern, full-time fieldwork in the 1870s in which Kristensen was a pioneer in Denmark. The account of this fieldwork required micro-historical reconstruction of Kristensen’s route (through heathland that has now disappeared), the informants’ domiciles and living conditions. In order to fill in the gaps in our archival knowledge, it was necessary to trace various historical circumstances in the localities where the 1873 expedition’s informants lived. The authors thus ended up carrying out a form of historical fieldwork themselves. The article illustrates the advantages to the project of combining work methods from various disciplines. Three selected cases are used to describe some of the problems that the authors encountered in carrying out their historical fieldwork in the former heathland and human traces left on them.
Store tekstkritiske udgaver i Norden. Et overblik
Authors: Kondrup Johnny
Published: March 2020

Forfatteren gennemgår en række store, nordiske udgaveprojekter, igangværende eller planlagte, og sammenligner dem fsva. editionsprincipper, organisation, økonomi, bevaring m.v.
Et senmiddelalderligt tysk fægtemesterhåndskrift på Det Kongelige Bibliotek. Ms. Thott 290 2º
Authors: Sørensen Claus Frederik
Published: March 2020

Claus Frederik Sørensen: A Late Middle Age German fencing master’s manuscript in the Royal Library. Ms. Thott 290 2°   The Royal Library in Copenhagen houses a volume entitled Thott 290 2º Meister Hans Thalhofer: Alte Armatur und Ringkunst. It is a richly illustrated, Late Middle Age German manuscript dated 1459. The manuscript was produced at the request of the German fencing master Hans Talhoffer and contains information on the art of fencing, the art of war, and legal duelling.   Thott 290 2º consists of 150 sheets. Paper is the material used and the sheets measure 30 cm × 21 cm. The text in the manuscript has been written with red and black ink; the illustrations have been painted and are boldly outlined. Both the text and the illustrations have been professionally produced and are of high technical quality.   Thott 290 2º seems to be a combination of a sales catalogue and a knowledge bank and falls within the genre of fencing manuscripts that, as late as the 1400s, dealt with a deadly art, as can well be seen in the manuscript’s many gory and macabre illustrations.   There are 66 known German Middle Age and Renaissance fencing manuscripts, of which a list is given at the end of this article. Most of these manuscripts are based on verses that describe an ideology of fencing developed by Johannes Liechtenauer, a fencing master in the 1300s. This fencing ideology, written by the fencing master in verse form, later became the foundation for subsequent German fencing masters’ teaching, including that of Hans Talhoffer.   The manuscript Thott 290 2º contains a wide variety of knowledge, presented either with the help of illustrations or described by text. The manuscript thus constitutes an invaluable source of information concerning a forgotten European Middle Age martial art on a level with what today is known from China and Japan.
“Der Klagen über das verdorbene Christenthum” : Om interessekonflikter og censurprocedure vedrørende oversættelsen af et teologisk skrift i 1739
Authors: Jakobsen Jesper
Published: March 2020

Jesper Jakobsen: Censorship of “Der Klagen über das verdorbene Christenthum”.   In the summer of 1739, the manuscript of a Danish translation of Philip Jacob Spener’s (1635–1705) anti-separatist polemical text, Der Klagen über das verdorbene Christenthum, was submitted to the General Church Inspection Committee (Committee of the Church) that, according to laws then in effect, was to decide whether it could be published. During the 1730s, Spener’s “Halle” evangelical exegesis of pietism was elevated almost to the level of a State religion in Denmark and the Committee of the Church endeavoured to disseminate it. The translation had, as required, previously been scrutinised and approved by the bishop in Viborg, the town in which the translator, Johannes Treschow (1691–1751), lived. The Committee of the Church would not, however, allow the translation to be published without reservations, and the article examines the factors and agendas underlying the reserved opinion.   The article is based on the case documents stored in the archives in the Committee of the Church, the Faculty of Theology and the Diocese of Viborg.   The case confirms the general perception among Danish historians that the bishops’ role in the censorship process was to relieve the censorship authorities in Copenhagen. Bishop Andreas Wøldike’s (1687–1770) correspondence with the Committee of the Church provides evidence that he had read the document thoroughly before he sent the manuscript to Copenhagen. However, Wøldike also had personal interests at stake in the case. His ill-concealed enthusiasm for the translation of Spener’s text was connected partly to the fact that he knew the translator personally and partly to the fact that he, by promoting a text by Spener, could improve his relationship with the Church’s highest authorities, since he previously had been ambiguous in his attitude towards pietism.   The Committee of the Church’s reservations relative to the translation were not based on theological disagreements but on the practical consideration that the Viborg diocese had quite recently been witness to separatist unrest. The Committee of the Church, out of fear of new unrest, would probably have preferred to do without the text altogether, but it could not ban a text by a theologian around whom, at the same time, attempts were being made to unite the church. It could, however, prohibit the translation from including the interpretations and commentaries to Spener’s intention with the text that Treschow had added. It could thereby reduce the risk of new religious conflicts and best serve the interests of the State church.
Døde la Mettrie “som filosof”?
Authors: Glebe-Møller Jens
Published: March 2020

Jens Glebe-Møller: Did La Mettrie die “as a philosopher”?   The French physician and philosopher Jean Offray de la Mettrie (1709–51) was notorious throughout Europe for his many materialist writings and especially for his denial of the immortality of the soul, proposed in his book L’Homme Machine (first printed 1749 and many times later). He had to flee to Prussia where he spent his last three years and died on November 11th 1751, probably because of a food poisoning. But soon there were rumours about the circumstances of his death. According to some reports he died ”as a philosopher”, i.e. without giving up his irreligious denial of the immortality of the soul. According to others he converted on his deathbed and returned to the Catholic faith. The article presents and discusses a short and hitherto unknown manuscript about his death, now in The Royal Library.
“Vi er ikke forbrydere …” : Legitimeringsstrategier og selvbilleder blandt HIPO- og ET-folk
Authors: Lundtofte Henrik
Published: March 2020

Henrik Lundtofte: “Wir sind nicht Verbrechern …”   Dieser Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit Rechtfertigungsstrategien und Selbstdarstellungen in der Nachkriegszeit von einer kleinen Gruppe ehemaliger Mitglieder des “ET”, des Nachrichtendienstes der dänischen SS (Schalburgkorpset), und der dänischen Hilfspolizei (HIPO). Beide Organisationen arbeiteten 1944–45 für die deutsche Sicherheitspolizei und waren wegen Terror und Folter gegen Widerstandskämpfer von der Bevölkerung sehr verhaßt. Nach der deutschen Kapitulation wurden besonders die Mitglieder des ET und der HIPO wie auch andere Kollaborateure aus der dänischen Gesellschaft ausgestoßen.   Dieser Beitrag zeigt, daß die ehemaligen ET- und HIPO-Männer als Kern ihrer Rechtfertigungsstrategien den Antikommunismus betonten, während sie andere Elemente des Nationalsozialismus wie den Antisemitismus unberücksichtigt ließen. Ihre Selbtsbilder in den Büchern, die sie nach dem Kriege schrieben, stellen sie als Opfer dar. Opfer einer radikalen und blutgierigen Widerstandsbewegung – die in ihrer von dem Kalten Krieg geprägten Auslegung ganz und gar von den dänischen Kommunisten und Moskau dirigiert war – und letztens auch Opfer und Prügelknaben der Rechtsabrechnung im Nachkriegskompromiß zwischen Widerstand und Politiker.   Die Rechtfertigungsstrategien und Selbstdarstellungen sind defensiv und oft stark verdreht, enthalten aber auch wichtige Hinweise auf Motive und Deutungsrahmen der Männer im ET und in der HIPO während der letzten im dänischen Besatzungskontext gewaltsamen Phasen des Krieges.
Om gartnere, måger og dejlige Angelique : Refræner, pop og populærmusikforskning – En kritisk gennemgang af Ekstra Bladets spørgeskemaundersøgelse om populærmusik, august 1961
Authors: Smith-Sivertsen Henrik
Published: March 2020

Henrik Smith-Sivertsen: Sexy American pop or sentimental schlager – A Danish survey on popular music 1961.   In this article the author uses a Danish questionnaire from august 1961 to examine the position of popular music in Danish musical- and cultural field in the early 1960’s. The questionnaire was targeted specifically at popular music and the results were published in a newspaper later that year. In the original presentation of the results the main conclusion was that the younger part of the population preferred music in English rather than Danish. These presumptions were generally shared in the early 1960’s, and seem to have been an underlying premise in radio programming in the following years leaving only little space for Danish popular music. In the article these interpretations are being questioned following an analysis of all original answers.
Anmeldelser
Authors: Grier James , Hauge Peter , Svindborg Bruno , Oechsle Siegfried , Larsen Svend
Published: March 2020

James Grier anmelder:John Bergsagel, ed. The Offices and Masses of St. Knud Lavard († 1131) (Kiel, Univ. Lib. Ms. S.H. 8 A.8°). 2 vols. Copenhagen: The Royal Library, 2010. Also published as Musicological Studies, 65/17. Ottawa: Institute of Mediaeval Music, 2010. Pp. vii, 145; xliv, 72. Peter Hauge anmelder:Arne Spohr, “How chances it they travel?” Englische Musiker in Dänemark und Norddeutschland 1579–1630 (‘Wolfenbütteler Arbeiten zur Barock­forschung’, vol. 45; Harrassowitz Verlag: Wiesbaden 2009), 435 pp., illus., music exx. Bruno Svindborg  anmelder:H.C. Andersens breve på nettet. Odense Bys Museer og H.C. Andersen Cen­tret ved Syddansk Universitet, 2011. www.andersen.sdu.dk/brevbase/  Siegfried Oechsle anmelder:Niels W. Gade og hans europæiske kreds. En brevveksling 1836–1891/ Niels W. Gade und sein europäischer Kreis. Ein Briefwechsel 1836–1891. Udg. af / Hrsg. von Inger Sørensen. Udg. af Det Kongelige Bibliotek & Det Dan­ske Sprog- og Litteraturselskab / Hrsg. von der Königlichen Bibliothek & der Gesellschaft für Dänische Sprache und Literatur. I kommission hos / in Kommission bei Museum Tusculanum Press, 2008. Bind 1–3, i alt 1.668 ss. Ill. (Danish Humanist Texts and Studies, vol. 36). Svend Larsen anmelder:Esko Häkli: Innovation through Co-operation. The History of LIBER. Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche 1971–2009 2011, 371 s., indb. (Danish Humanist Texts and Stu­dies, vol. 41).
Festskrift til Harald Ilsøe på 80-årsdagen den 18. januar 2013
Authors: Nielsen Erland Kolding
Published: March 2020

Den 18. januar 2013 fylder Det Kongelige Biblioteks tidligere forskningsbibliotekar og fagreferent i historie Harald Ilsøe 80 år.Hans gamle arbejdsplads vil med denne årgang af Fund og Forskning i Det Kongelige Biblioteks Samlinger, som Harald Ilsøe selv var redaktør af 1969-1983 og 1992-1993, med afhandlinger af kolleger og fagfæller hylde ham for hans mangeårige indsats i bibliotekets og forskningens tjeneste.
Cardinal Enea Silvio Piccolomini and the Development of Cardinal Protectors of Nations
Authors: Cotta-Schönberg Michael Von
Published: March 2020

This article deals with the development of Cardinal Protectors of Nations in the 15th century. It is based partly on texts examined by Josef Wodka (1938), partly on the correspondence of Cardinal Enea Silvio Piccolomini published in the Opera Omnia edition of 1571 and the correpondence of King Christian 1. with the Papal Court.The author’s interpretation of the development differs somewhat from Josef Wodka’s in that it recognizes the decisive role of the Council of Basle in creating a legal base for cardinals representing royal interests at the Apostolic Sea. The Council agreed with the stance of Pope Martin V that cardinals should act as impartial and independent advisors of popes, but – reaching back to Avignonese precedents – it accepted a form of representation termed “promotorship” rather than “protectorship” of royal affairs. It did not indicate any difference of content between the two concepts, but only addressed the modalities of partiality and payment.This interpretation is based on the Conciliar Decree itself and on the Cardinal’s correspondence which documents the practice at the Papal Court in the 1450’s, including a formal arrangement of promotorship between the Cardinal and the Emperor, and negotiations concerning such a promotorship between the Cardinal and the King of Denmark.
Dulce bellum inexpertis. “Skøn er krigen for den, der ikke kender den.” Arild Huitfeldt og Christian 4.
Authors: Heiberg Steffen
Published: March 2020

Arild Huitfeldt’s prefaces to the individual volumes of his Chronicles of Denmark (1595–1604) assume their character of political admonitions addressed to the young Christian IV. Harald Ilsøe has characterized Huitfeldt as a “secret” student of Machiavelli and has shown that the prefaces contain concealed quotations from the Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio. An undisguised ideal figure, whom Huitfeldt likes to quote, is Philippe de Commines. Huitfeldt, in his foreword to Hans Mogensen’s Danish translation of Philippe de Commines’ Memoirs (1605), accordingly adopts as his own ideal the analytical and “realistic” approach to writing history of Philippe de Commines and Guicciardini.Huitfeldt does more than simply paraphrase Machiavelli and de Commines. In his preface to King Hans’ history (1599), Huitfeldt, proceeding from this king’s efforts to reconquer Sweden, stresses that even a just war could go wrong. His arguments are political as well as moral and draw on undeclared references to Erasmus of Rotterdam’s antiwar essay Dulce bellum inexpertis – war is beautiful for those who do not know it – which is contained in his Adagia, a collection with commentaries of Greek and Latin sayings.Erasmus’ point is that war is often started by inexperienced princes, who lack insight.Huitfeldt’s use of such formulations in a preface to a young king, who desires an expansive foreign policy, must be seen as daring.By combining Erasmus and Machiavelli, Huitfeldt emphasizes that morality and realpolitik are not opposites; avoiding the devastation of war is a form of realpolitik.Relying one-sidedly on a military solution is a sign of inexperience, dulce bellum inexpertis. This point of view was reiterated at a meeting of the war council in 1604, where Huitfeldt and his supporters opposed the king’s war plans by explaining that politics is not simply a matter of having right on one’s side: he who aims to rule must be able to dissemble and to exercise self-discipline. One must take account of reality.
Bøger i 1700-tallets nordjyske landsbyskoler
Authors: Appel Charlotte
Published: March 2020

This article takes its point of departure in a collection of inventories, presented to Bishop Bror Brorson on his visitation journeys in the diocese of Aalborg, Northern Jutland, in the 1750s. The inventories reveal considerable variations: the majority of schools had 3 to 30 books registered, some schools had between 30 and 60 books regisitered, while a minority of schools had no books at all. However, these books were only the tip of the iceberg. By analysing the school decree of 1739 as well as information in the inventories themselves, it can be demonstrated, how parents were responsible for acquiring the necessary teaching materials themselves. The books registered were first of all free copies for poor children, and some of these books were not even listed, as they had been given away to individual children.The inventories bear witness to a high degree of continuity concerning the schoolbooks used for elementary teaching: ABCs, catechisms, gospel books, expositions of the catechism. But it can also be documented that the government had succeeded in introducing Erik Pontoppidan’s new Pietistic exposition of the catechism from 1737 into all village schools. In contrast, there were no central regulations that dealt with teaching materials for writing and mathematics.Instruction in these subjects was a local matter. Moreover, the inventories reveal a number of book donations, especially from Pietistic pastors, and in some cases unique information about the bindings, as well as the wear and tear of schoolbooks can be found. Thus the inventories provide an intriguing window into everyday teaching practices and the role of school books in 18th century village schools.
Dansk i danske samlinger. Om Udenlandske Danica i det 20. århundrede
Authors: Jacobsen Grethe
Published: March 2020

In the National Collection of printed works in the National Library of Denmark and Copenhagen University Library, primarily collected through Legal Deposit, one finds also works published abroad, dealing with Denmark and Danes, the so-called Danica extranea. These have been collected since 1788 when instructions, written to the new director of the library, ordered him to purchase works dealing with all the Danish states and colonies and their subjects. At that time the Danish king ruled over Denmark, Norway, the Duchies (Schleswig-Holstein) as well as colonies in India, Africa and the Caribbean. This kingdom was reduced 26 years later following the Treaty of Kiel in 1814 when Norway was ceded to Sweden. In 1864, the Duchies became part of the emerging German Empire.According to the instructions of 1788, this should also have influenced the acquisition of Danica extranea. However, this was not the case. The staff of the Danish Department (established in 1780) of the library retained until 1991 the image of Denmark as it had been before 1814 when it came to defining what should be purchased for the national collection. The article describes how this was formulated and carried out in practice during the second half of the twentieth century. The Department operated with three categories of Danica extranea: extranea proper, non-extranea (works on areas and people who had at one point in time belonged to Denmark or had been Danish subjects), and Scandinavica (works on Scandinavian countries and people, unless dealing exclusively with Sweden). This was confusing for people using the library, for example they had to look for Norwegian books published after 1814 in the Danish catalogue and not in the foreign, catalogue, and it created internal conflicts in the library when books purchased for general circulation were withheld in the national collection because of their subject matter and then could only be used in the Reading Room. The issue was resolved in 1991 when acquisitions of non-extranea and Scandinavica became the task of the University Department and purchases of duplicate copies was made possible in case of any conflict. The introduction of an online catalogue in 1998, into which all separate card catalogues were merged made it easier for users to find a book.
Anmeldelser
Authors: Olden-Jørgensen Sebastian , Horstbøll Henrik , Jørgensen Jesper Düring , Bonde Lisbeth , Lund Niels D. , Woschenko Claus
Published: March 2020

Sebastian Olden-Jørgensen anmelder: Nicolaus Steno. Biography and Original Papers of a 17th Century Scientist.Edited and Translated by Troels Kardel and Paul Maquet, Springer,Heidelberg, Dordrecht, London, New York 2013, 739 sider, ill., ISBN978-3-642-25078-1, €83,29 (e-bog), €106,95 (indbundet).

Henrik Horstbøll anmelder: Kristian Jensen: Revolution and the Antiquarian Book. Reshaping the Past, 1780-1815. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2011, 318 sider.ISBN 978-1-107-00051-3.

Jesper Düring Jørgensen anmelder: Michael H. Clemmesen: Det lille land før den store krig. De danske farvande, stormagtsstrategier, efterretninger og forsvarsforberedelser omkring kriserne1911-13. Syddansk Universitet/Syddansk Universitetsforlag, Odense,2012. 557 sider, ISBN 978-87-7674-617-9

Lisbeth Bonde anmelder: Erik Aschengreen, Anne Middelboe Christensen og Kirsten Sørensen:Dansen i spejlet. John R. Johnsens balletfotos. Det Kongelige Bibliotek ogGads Forlag, København 2012, 342 sider, ill. ISBN 978-87-12-04687-5,Kr. 349.

Niels D. Lund anmelder: Jesper Düring Jørgensen: Den smilende kamæleon. Karl Larsen (1860-1931) – Digter, journalist, militarist. Danish Humanist Texts and Studies, 47.Det Kongelige Bibliotek og Museum Tusculanums Forlag, København2013, 593 s. , illustreret. ISBN 978-87-635-4080-3.

Claus Woschenko: J.P.E. Hartmann: Klaverværker/Piano Works/Klavierwerke. Udg. af/Hrsg.von Niels Krabbe. Det Kongelige Bibliotek: Dansk Center for Musikudgivelse.2012. Vol. 1-2. i-lii, 328 s.; liii-lxxxviii, ss. 329-652. Fol. (J.P.E.Hartmann: Udvalgte Værker/Selected Works/Ausgewählte Werke. Udg. afHartmann Udgaven, Det Kongelige Bibliotek/Publ. by The HartmannEdition, The Royal Library / Hrsg. von der Hartmann-Ausgabe, Diekönigliche Bibliothek. Hovedredaktør/Editor-in-chief/Redaktionsleiter:Niels Krabbe. Serie III, bind 1-2/Series III, Vol. 1-2/Serie III, Band1-2). ISMN 979-0706763-12-5 & 979-0706763-13-2. Kr. 1.600,-
Blomstermaleren på rejse. I.L. Jensens brev fra Paris 1823
Authors: Berner Marie-Louise
Published: March 2020

Marie-Louise Berner: The Flower Painter on His Travels. I.L. Jensen’s Letter from Paris, 1823On 15 March 1823, the flower painter Johan Laurentz Jensen (1800–1856) wrote a letter from Paris to his friend the sculptor H.V. Bissen. In it, he describes his journey from Copenhagen across the Netherlands to Paris, and he relates his impressions and experiences, especially during the eight months spent in that city. He describes in detail the salon and the exhibition of contemporary art at the Musée du Luxembourg that year. He also makes a number of observations about his daily life, friends and activities, and lastly states that he is on his way to Sèvres, to paint on porcelain.In addition to publishing the letter in its entirety, this article provides an account of the painter’s background, and an analysis of the experiences related and observations made in the letter. It further provides background on the salon: its format and organizational principles, its location, opening hours, visitors, contents and catalogue. Additionally, detailed commentary is provided on Jensen’s observations on the art at the salon and at the Musée du Luxembourg, as well as on Jensen’s life in the city. The article concludes with an appraisal of the importance of the journey to Jensen and his art.
Bogligt undertøj. Lidt om danske bogforsatser ca. 1880-1920
Authors: Ilsøe Harald
Published: March 2020

Harald Ilsøe: The ‘Underwear’ of a Book. About Danish Endpapers c. 1880–1920

The endpaper, i.e. the paper that connects the book block to its cover, is as rare research object of book historians, as if it were a private detail of the book, hidden from public eyes – or, humourously, the ‘underwear’ of a book. None the less, bookbinders have since the 1880’s given the endpaper growing attention and hence it has become a vital part of the decoration of a book. In this article the author presents some samples of coloured or even artistically designed Danish endpapers from the period mentioned.
Brødre i ånden. Professionalisering af biblioteksfaget som afspejlet i breve mellem Svend Dahl og Wilhelm Munthe
Authors: Larsen Svend
Published: March 2020

Svend Larsen: Kindred souls. Svend Dahl and Wilhelm Munthe on the professionalisation of academic librarianship
Svend Dahl (1887–1963) and Wilhelm Munthe (1883–1965) were prominent figures in Scandinavian and international librarianship in the first part of the 20th Century. From 1922–1953, Munthe was head of Oslo University Library which was also Norwegian national library. Internationally, he is known as the author of American Librarianship from a European angle. An attempt at an examination of policies and activities (1939) and as president of the international library federation IFLA (1947–1951). Svend Dahl was head of Copenhagen University Library 1925–1943 and head of the Royal Library and national librarian 1943–1952. Internationally, he is known for his many publications such as the History of the Book (Danish, English, French, German, Spanish and Swedish editions). Dahl and Munthe exchanged just under 200 letters between 1916 and 1953. These letters reveal their views concerning academic librarianship and the need and the ways to professionalise it. In the exchange of letters, the two men also discussed other topics, such as education, internationalisation, and the separation of library and university.
Koder, kapital og kurerer. Nye vinkler på Kominterns hemmelige apparat
Authors: Møller Morten , Rosenfeldt Niels Erik
Published: March 2020

Morten Møller & Niels Erik Rosenfeldt: Codes, capital and couriers – new angles on the Comintern’s secret apparatus

The article presents and analyses for the first time in a Danish context central parts of Comintern’s secret communications by radio between the headquarters in Moscow and its numerous contact points all over Europe. These radio telegrams were intercepted and decrypted by British Intelligence in the years 1934–37. The result of this effort was a collection of more than 8.000 documents, which for decades were kept secret in London. They were declassified in the years following the collapse of Communism and the Soviet Union and are now available in electronic copies in the Royal Library in Copenhagen. This comprehensive material provides a new and sounder insight into the Comintern’s international networks and communication methods in the 1930s. More than ten percent of the intercepted telegrams consist of correspondence between Moscow and the special contact point in Copenhagen. The article analyses both the political and the more “technical” directives that reached Copenhagen and other European capitals and also uncovers the intensive traffic by communist couriers, agents, etc., between the Soviet Union and Denmark during this period. In a separate section that deals with the wider courier traffic in Europe it is documented that Danish couriers based in Moscow were very active in transporting large amounts of money to Paris, Stockholm, Prague and elsewhere. In just a little more than a year, Danish couriers Ellen Schou and Gottlieb Japsen transported suitcases from Moscow to various European capitals with an amount equivalent to DKK 24 million in 2014. The material also shows that four out of five identified money couriers in 1936 were women and that Swedish citizens in particular played a prominent role among the couriers. Finally, the article outlines the frameworks for future analysis of the entire collection of decrypted radio telegrams.
Dansk støtte til dissidenterne i Østblokken under den kolde krig
Authors: Boel Bent
Published: March 2020

Bent Boel: Danish support for dissidents in the Soviet Bloc during the Cold War

Recent Cold War historiography has demonstrated an increased interest for the many ways in which the Iron Curtain was perforated long before the fall of the Berlin Wall. This article looks at Denmark’s role in this process and constitutes a first attempt to examine Danish assistance to Soviet Bloc dissidents. Its relevancy is heightened by the ongoing Danish controversies concerning the Cold War and, in particular, disagreements about the role played by different groups which supported dissidents in the Soviet Bloc. Indeed, without documented knowledge in this field we will have to settle for a debate rich in passions and certitudes but rather disconnected from the complicated reality of the Cold War. Based on available written and oral sources, this article makes a number of claims about Danish support for the dissidents. For instance, the support was, mostly, a non–governmental endeavor. Although there are examples of official or semi–official contacts with dissidents, in the main dissident–helpers were a tiny minority comprising marginal fringe groups or individuals (exiled Soviet bloc dissidents, Bible smugglers, peace activists, leftwing activists) acting on their own initiative rather than mandated by some larger group. Only during the 1980s, and in particular the second half of the 1980s, did other actors – and more prominent individuals – enter the fray. This minority was politically extremely diverse: practical support for the dissidence could be found in many different political quarters, and it could be motivated by extremely diverse motives. In some cases it had at least as much to do with domestic politics as it had with the dissidents themselves. Among those supporting the dissidents were far right–wing activists as well as Maoists and Trotskyists or liberals. But the overwhelming majority of those involved in subversive tourism to the Soviet Bloc were from the left (broadly understood). The reasons for this overrepresentation are diverse. One of them was the perceived need to actively show that Soviet–style socialism was quite different from the kind of socialism to which the majority of the Danish left aspired.
Notits om et par bogejere nævnt i Henning Lehmanns afhandling om armeniske bøger i Fund og Forskning, 2013
Authors: Ilsøe Harald
Published: March 2020

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The Nueva corónica of Guaman Poma 1615–2015. Three Studies on Critical Issues Related to GKS 2232 4º. Introduction
Authors: Boserup Ivan
Published: March 2020

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Disentangling Knots. Real and fictional khipu systems in the Naples documents, Garcilaso de la Vega’s Comentarios, Guaman Poma’s Nueva corónica, and Raimondo de Sangro’s Lettera apologetic
Authors: Domenici Davide
Published: March 2020

Davide Domenici: Disentangling Knots. Real and fictional khipu systems in the Naples documents, Garcilaso de la Vega’s Comentarios, Guaman Poma’s Nueva corónica, and Raimondo De Sangro’s Lettera apologetica

The present paper offers a new critical approach to the so-called Naples documents, a group of controversial manuscripts that contain unprecedented claims regarding Peruvian colonial history, among them the attribution to the mestizo Jesuit Father Blas Valera of the authorship of El primer nueva corónica i buen gobierno of Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, one of the treasures of the Royal Library of Denmark. The Naples documents ignited a scholarly controversy, placing scholars who considered them to be bold modern forgeries in opposition to scholars who believed in their authenticity and veracity. The strategy chosen here for attempting to make some progress in assessing the authenticity of single parts of the Naples documents consists of a deliberate focus on one single, major aspect, to the disregard of others. In the present case, the focus is on the various examples of “syllabic khipu” represented in the documents, considered from the vantage point of Raimondo de Sangro’s Lettera apologetica (1750). In this famous book, the Neapolitan intellectual presented an example of a “syllabic khipu” writing system, apparently derived from one of the two main Naples documents. A detailed analysis of the diverse relationships between the Lettera Apologetica and the Naples documents makes it possible to demonstrate that only a small part of the documents can be considered to be earlier than 1750, and hence potentially can be identified with what De Sangro himself mentions as being his main source. However, most parts of the Naples manuscripts are manifestly dependent on the Lettera Apologetica, and are therefore clearly not what they purport to be. On the basis of our analysis, we propose that the authentic pre-1750 part of one of the documents is an interesting source on the colonial perception and transformation of native Andean khipu, but that it is devoid of any “revolutionary” content. The demonstration that the Naples documents with one single exception are clear post-1750 forgeries thus implies that their claims must be rejected, including those regarding El primer nueva corónica i buen gobierno, the distinctive and unique achievement of the Andean Indian Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala.
Udlændinges rejser i Danmark indtil år 1700. En bibliografisk fortegnelse ved Harald Ilsøe (1963). Bidrag til en ajourføring
Authors: Ilsøe Harald
Published: March 2020

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Ludvig Holbergs svenske epigoner: Carl Christoffer Gjörwell og Anders Schönberg
Authors: Schmidt Kristoffer
Published: March 2020

Kristoffer Schmidt: Ludvig Holberg’s Swedish epigones

One of the most read authors among eighteenth century Swedes was none other than Ludvig Holberg. This is not only evident by the success of Holberg’s writings in Sweden but also because many Swedish authors directly or indirectly attempted to imitate his writings. In particular, the biographical books Lives of Heroes (1739) and Lives of Heroines (1745), modelled after the Greek historian Plutarch’s Vitae Parallelae, became immense successes, spawning three Swedish imitations: two written by the publisher Carl Christopher Gjörwell (1755–56, 1757) and one written by the historian Anders Schönberg (1756).Through a comparative analysis, this article examines the similarities and dissimilarities between Holberg’s Lives of Heroes and Lives of Heroines and the Swedish imitations. The analysis reveals that although Gjörwell and Schönberg acknowledged their reliance on the biographical method, historical contents and moral reflections in Lives of Heroes and Lives of Heroines, their imitations were rather free interpretations, whether relying heavily or deviating significantly from the Holbergian originals.
Anmeldelser
Authors: Jakobsen Jesper , Lammers Karl Christian
Published: March 2020

Jesper Jakobsen anmelder: Robert Darnton: Censors at Work. How States Shaped Literature. The British Library 2014. 316 s., ill., indb. ISBN 978-0-7123-5761-6

Karl Christian Lammers anmelder: Samarbejdets mand. Minister Gunnar Larsen. Dagbog 1941-1943, udgivet af John T. Lauridsen og Joachim Lund. Det Kongelige Bibliotek & Selskabet til Udgivelse af Kilder til Danmarks Historie i samarbejde med Historika 2015, I-III, i alt 1.486 sider.
Illuminated Manuscript Cuttings at the Royal Library. Leaves from the Papal Court in Rome and the Este Court in Ferrara
Authors: Mattia Eleonora
Published: March 2020

Eleonora Mattia: Illuminerede fragmenter på Det Kongelige Bibliotek: Enkeltblade fra det pavelige hof og fra huset d’Este i Ferrara

Det Kongelige Bibliotek rummer en mindre samling af illuminerede enkeltblade og initialer. Størsteparten stammer fra liturgiske bøger så som missaler, antifonaler og gradualer, der blev brugt i den katolske kirke. Disse “Illuminerede fragmenter” tilhører ikke bibliotekets ældre bestand, men er blevet erhvervet fra samlere eller i kunsthandlen fra begyndelsen af 1900-tallet og frem. En betydelig gruppe udgøres af fragmenter fra Italien, fra middelalderen til den sene renæssance.Historien bag denne type fragmenter og deres indsamling går tilbage til slutningen af det attende århundrede. Efter Napoleons hær havde invaderet Italien blev mange gamle religiøse institutioner nedlagt og plyndret og tusindvis af manuskripter fandt vej til det europæiske marked. I mange tilfælde blev de liturgiske bøger splittet ad og deres miniaturer udskåret af både transport- og salgsmæssige hensyn.Dette gælder også bestanden af manuskripter fra det Sixtinske Kapel i Vatikanet. Udskårne sider herfra blev i 1825 solgt på en berømt auktion i London, hvor de blev købt af kunstsamlere som selvstændige små kunstværker. Nogle af disse var udført af Apollonio de Bonfratelli, der også har illumineret og signeret et blad med en “Opstandelse” i Det Kongelige Bibliotek. Denne artikel foreslår, at “Opstandelsen” oprindelig stammer fra et missale i Det Sixtinske Kapel, udført under Pave Pius 5. (1566-1572).To andre illuminerede enkeltblade i Det Kongelige Bibliotek stammer fra Leonello d’Estes Breviar. Breviaret er veldokumenteret. Det udførtes af nogle af tidens berømteste illuminatorer mellem 1441 og 1448 og vidner om en vigtig fase i Ferraras maleri, på overgangen mellem sengotikken og den tidlige renæssance. Det Kongelige Biblioteks blade kan tilskrives Giorgio d’Alemagna og Breviarets historie viser, at i visse dele af kunsthandlen fortsatte den praksis, at opsplitte gamle manuskripter for at sælge deres sider enkeltvis, helt frem i 1950erne.
Carl Nielsen: Radical
Authors: Roth Colin
Published: March 2020

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En Beretning om Afdeling AS under Statsadvokaten for særlige Anliggender for tiden april-august 1940
Authors: Lauridsen John T.
Published: March 2020

John T. Lauridsen: Account of Department AS under the Public Prosecutor for Special Affairs for the period April–August 1940

In the summer of 1940, the Politiken journalist Vilhelm Bergstrøm managed to get a contact in Department AS, which operated under the Public Prosecutor for Special Affairs, to write an account of the department’s activities during the period April–August 1940. The account is anonymous, but almost certainly written by Detective Inspector Roland Olsen, and is particularly interesting because Department AS dealt with all of the police cases related to Danish-German affairs. The account shows that by far the majority of the many cases (1,650) were trivial, built on rumours and faulty assumptions. The few serious cases mainly concerned the tracking-down and arrest of German emigrants. There was only a single serious case of sabotage, serious because a prank by the Germans required an example be set.
Mindre bidrag
Authors: Ilsøe Harald , Bruun Niels W.
Published: March 2020

Harald Ilsøe: Apropos Herluf Trolle. Lidt gammelt nyt om etableringen af Herlufsholm kostskole

Niels W. Bruun: Om brokoperationen punctura aurea
Anmeldelser
Authors: Foltmann Niels Bo , Christensen Nina
Published: March 2020

Niel Bo Foltmann anmelder: Michael Matter: Niels W. Gade und der ‘nordische Ton’. Ein musikgeschichtlicher Präzedenzfall

Nina Christensen anmelder: Lotte Thrane: Vildfugl og verdensborger: tretten fortællinger om Estrid Ott og hendes tid
Three Italian Illuminated Cuttings in the Royal Library of Copenhagen: the Master B. F., Attavante and the Master of Montepulciano Gradual I
Authors: Mattia Eleonora
Published: March 2020

Eleonora Mattia: Three Italian illuminated Cuttings in the Royal Library of Copenhagen

Some observations on the history of collecting illuminated cuttings serve to introduce three unpublished Italian fragments that are part of a collection of illuminated fragments conserved in the Royal Danish Library. The miniatures are described from the point of view of their liturgical and art-historical content and are presented in the form of entries in a catalogue raisonné. The Master B. F., who grew up under the shadow of Leonardo de Vinci, was among those miniaturists most sought-after by collectors in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century because of his evident stylistic debts to the great painter. The beautiful miniature in Copenhagen can now be added to the other known works of this Master and is critical not only to the reconstruction of his corpus, but also for the history of collecting, as it comes from the prestigious Holford Collection. It was already correctly attributed when it entered the collection of the Royal Library; it is here inserted into the activity of the artist, a dating is proposed, and a provenance is suggested from the series of choir books in the monastery of Santi Angelo e Nicolò a Villanova Sillaro in Lombardy, which were broken up around 1799. The Danish cutting here attributed to Attavante has a specific iconography that demonstrates an originality and an independence from models followed by contemporary Florentine painting, qualities not always acknowledged to the well known miniaturist whose extensive figurative production has sometimes been considered repetitive. A third fragment is here attributed to the Pisan Master of Montepulciano Gradual I. This anonymous miniaturist is at the centre of the most recent and innovative studies of fourteenth-century Tuscan painting: his activity belongs to the diversified texture of artistic production between Florence and its nearby cities, with expressive modalities independent of the tradition of the more strictly Giottesque masters. The miniature attributed to him here is to be added to the catalogue of his works, dispersed as they are in many European and American collections.