Special Collections
New Contribution to our Special Collections
The University Library of Southern Denmark has extensive Special Collections. As part of the library’s work, these are made available to researchers, students, and the public through dissemination and digitization.
The library also continuously acquires new rare books. With support from Augustinus Fonden and the Louis-Hansen Fonden, we have acquired, among other things, the works Cosmographia and Jean de La Fontaine’s Fables choisies.
The five volumes originate from the Swedish private collection of art historian Marita Lindgren-Fridell.
- Martinus Polonus: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis cum promptuario exemplorum (1484) - A rare first edition that complements the library's existing collection of incunabula.
- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim: De occvlta philosophia libri III (1550) - A significant addition to the library's collection on the history of magic.
- Petrus Apianus: Cosmographia (1574) - A valuable work for ongoing astronomical history projects.
- Matthaeus Merian: Todten-Tanz (1696) - A rare collection of engravings that will inspire the library's medieval and renaissance network.
- Jean de La Fontaine: Fables choisies (1755-59) - An example of Enlightenment-era book production, relevant for philosophical discussions and book history dissemination.