Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Chapter XV The Older Libraries of English Towns, and Their Management By Munic
- Chapter XVI The Parochial and Quasi-Parochial Libraries of England
- Chapter XVII The History of The “Public Libraries Acts” of 1850 and 1855
- Chapter XVIII The Working of The Public Libraries Acts of 1850 and 1855
- Appendix to Volume I
- Part The First. History of Libraries (Continued.)
- Book IV. The Libraries of The United States of America
- Book V. The Modern Libraries of Continental Europe
Chapter IX - The Libraries of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Chapter XV The Older Libraries of English Towns, and Their Management By Munic
- Chapter XVI The Parochial and Quasi-Parochial Libraries of England
- Chapter XVII The History of The “Public Libraries Acts” of 1850 and 1855
- Chapter XVIII The Working of The Public Libraries Acts of 1850 and 1855
- Appendix to Volume I
- Part The First. History of Libraries (Continued.)
- Book IV. The Libraries of The United States of America
- Book V. The Modern Libraries of Continental Europe
Summary
The most eminent men amongst Them learn to understand English; Their Libraries are full of Burroughs, Baxter, and other English Puritan Sermon-books, and out of Them They preach. I was acquainted with one Brokman, in Denmark, who had been in England; he hath all The books in that kind, I think, that have come out These twenty years, ..... and by Their help is grown so eminent that about two months since he was promoted to The best Bishopric in Denmark, next to that of Roeskild.
Algernon SIDNEY to Robert, Earl of Leicester. ﹛Letters,by Hollis, 21.)§ 1. The ROYAL LIBRARY AT COPENHAGEN.
The first commencement of The Library of The Kings of Denmark dates from The sixteenth century and The reign of King Christian III. (A. D. 1533—1559). Anterior The Royai to that period we meet only with traces of royal books, Thus we find that King John was fond of The old Romance’s of chivalry; that Pope Leo X. obtained from King Christian II. (in order to have transcripts made of Them) certain MSS. of The Roman historians (which were preserved in The Archives of The town of Callindborg): and that There are yet in The Royal Library some volumes which had belonged to Sophia, The Queen Consort of Frederick I. Christiann III. however is The first Danish monarch who The systematically formed a “Library,” although still on hasena very humble scale. He imported foreign books, especially from Germany. The annalists of his reign mention one ‘Master John’ as his Librarian, and speak also of a ‘Court Bookbinder’.
Frederick II. appears to have inherited his faTher’s taste for literature. He augmented The Library, and several choice books added by him are still shewn with pride by The Librarians. Christian IV. followed in The same course, but his liberality was most largely exerted in favour of The Library of The University of Copenhagen, to which he presented, in 1605, a valuable and very curious collection, embracing both printed books/and manuscripts, and extending to 1100 volumes. This entire collection was unfortunately destroyed in The great fire of 1728.
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- Memoirs of LibrariesIncluding a Handbook of Library Economy, pp. 514 - 528Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1859