Netherlands), The Wellcome Library, London, and Det Kongelige Bibliotek (Royal Library, Copenhagen) The selection of works focuses on four collections of particular historic and bibliographic importance within the library's holdings from this period: the Nencini Aldine Collection, Marginalia, Incunabula, Sacred RepresentationsĬollection 3 : Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze (National Central Library of Florence), Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the This collection contains early printed volumes from the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze.
Other notable works of Tycho in this collection include his De nova et nullius ævi memoria prius visa stella ('On the new and never previously seen star'), published in Copenhagen in 1573 (Lauritz Nielsen 429).Ĭollection 2 : Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze (National Central Library of Florence) All of the Royal Library's Danish and Icelandic imprints produced in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries fall within its scope, from the earliest works printed in Denmark - Breviarium Ottoniense (Odense Breviary) and Guillaume Caoursin's De obsidione et bello Rhodiano ('On the siege and war of Rhodes'), both printed by Johann Snell in Odense in 1482 (Lauritz Nielsen 29 and 39 respectively) - through to works by the astronomer and alchemist Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) issued from his private press at Uranienborg, on the island of Hven, before 1597. This collection offers a comprehensive survey of the Royal Library's holdings of items listed in Lauritz Nielsen's Dansk Bibliografi 1482-1600 and its supplement (1919-1996).