Images of Manuscripts in NorS Digital Collections
Digitisation project 2016-2018
In December 2016 the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics (
In addition to the Arnamagnæan Manuscript Collection, the Arnamagnæan Institute also holds one of the biggest archives of photographs of Nordic manuscripts in the World. A total of 1,2 million photographs of manuscripts counting all the manuscripts that were transferred to Iceland, some of the manuscripts that remain in Copenhagen as well as Icelandic medieval manuscripts in other collections such as Harvard, Oxford, Stockholm, Oslo, The Vatican and many more have now been digitized. While due to the copyright issues images of some of these manuscripts could not be made available online, all the photographs of manuscripts in the Arnamagnæan Collection (both in Reykjavík and Copenhagen) are now freely available online. Besides the Arnamagnæan manuscripts there are also photographs of the manuscripts in Rask's collection, Kriger's collection, and the
These photographs were taken between 1956-2010 by the photographers employed at the Arnamagnæan Institute and are under CC-BY license. Currently our photographer is working on taking new digital photographs of all our holdings, and these digital photographs are uploaded to our online
Contact
Katarzyna Anna Kapitan is a research fellow at The Arnamagnæan Institute
Telefon:+45 35 33 23 97
kak@hum.ku.dk