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  Getting a fair share: an Icelandic letter of partition from 1673

  2020.03.13

  Two small fragments found in the binding of an Icelandic manuscript tell the story of how a farmer divided the inheritance between his two sons.… »

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  A Reunited Law: AM 6 8vo

  2020.02.07

  In 2020 Denmark will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the reunification with Southern Jutland. The Danish-German character of the region shines through in manuscripts such as AM 6 8vo, which contains the Danish Jyske… »

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  How to Count a Manuscript - The Faroese Collection in Accessoria 4

  2019.12.13

  Accessoria 4 is a single shelfmark, but is it a single manuscript? This collection of Faroese papers is surprisingly more than the catalogue number suggests.… »

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  Naked Angels and Stolen Herring in AM 79 4to

  2019.11.14

  AM 79 4to is a particularly beautiful part of the Arnamagnæan Manuscript Collection. The manuscript is lavishly decorated and written in a hand so neat, your English teacher would be jealous. Furthermore, AM 79 4to gives… »

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  An English Saint in a Danish Manuscript

  2019.09.15

  The story of an English saint is found in a Danish lawbook from the late 15th century. A study of the provenance of AM 28 4to shows how this is not the only religious connection.… »

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  A Medieval Love Story

  2019.06.15

  Persenober og Konstantianobis is the title of a courtly romance in Danish from the fifteenth century. The fragment AM 151 b 8vo from around the year 1600 is one of five witnesses that contain the story.… »

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  Hernando Colón’s Book of Books: AM 377 fol.

  2019.04.15

  One of the manuscripts in the Arnamagnæan Collection, AM 377 fol., has recently been identified as having belonged to Hernando Colón, son of the famous navigator Christopher Columbus.… »

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  A New Discovery in the Arnamagnæan Collection

  2019.03.22

  Recently, a major discovery was made, when one of the manuscripts in the collection, AM 377 fol., an enormous codex of nearly 2000 pages, was identified as being one of the volumes of indices prepared in the library of… »

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  Chronicle of the Slavs in the Arnamangæan Collection

  2019.03.15

  While the twelfth century is generally associated with great social, political and economic transformations and cultural development in Western Europe, there was one area of Medieval Europe which did not fit the general… »

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  New Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow at the Arnamagnæan Institute

  2019.02.21

  The Irish scholar Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellowship.… »

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