Árni Magnússon, an early-modern collector of medieval manuscripts
The article provides an overview of the life and work of the Icelandic scholar Árni Magnússon (1663-1730), collector of manuscripts and professor of history at the University of Copenhagen. He started collecting Icelandic manuscripts as a young man and his collection is now the basis for all researc...
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| Yayımlandı: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/tabularia, |
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| Materyal Türü: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Dil: | Anglais |
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Tabularia
2016
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| Online Erişim: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Özet: | The article provides an overview of the life and work of the Icelandic scholar Árni Magnússon (1663-1730), collector of manuscripts and professor of history at the University of Copenhagen. He started collecting Icelandic manuscripts as a young man and his collection is now the basis for all research on Medieval Iceland. It also contains Norwegian and Danish medieval manuscripts, as well as more recent Icelandic ones. |
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