[{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki14\/arnamagnaean-manuscript-collection-wikipedia\/#BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki14\/arnamagnaean-manuscript-collection-wikipedia\/","headline":"Arnamagn\u00e6an Manuscript Collection – Wikipedia","name":"Arnamagn\u00e6an Manuscript Collection – Wikipedia","description":"From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Icelandic manuscript collection The Arnamagn\u00e6an Manuscript Collection (Danish: Den Arnamagn\u00e6anske H\u00e5ndskriftsamling, Icelandic: Handritasafn \u00c1rna Magn\u00fassonar)","datePublished":"2015-02-07","dateModified":"2015-02-07","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki14\/author\/lordneo\/#Person","name":"lordneo","url":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki14\/author\/lordneo\/","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/44a4cee54c4c053e967fe3e7d054edd4?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/44a4cee54c4c053e967fe3e7d054edd4?s=96&d=mm&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/wiki4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/download.jpg","url":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/wiki4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/download.jpg","width":600,"height":60}},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:CentralAutoLogin\/start?type=1x1","url":"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:CentralAutoLogin\/start?type=1x1","height":"1","width":"1"},"url":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki14\/arnamagnaean-manuscript-collection-wikipedia\/","wordCount":947,"articleBody":"From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  Icelandic manuscript collectionThe Arnamagn\u00e6an Manuscript Collection (Danish: Den Arnamagn\u00e6anske H\u00e5ndskriftsamling, Icelandic: Handritasafn \u00c1rna Magn\u00fassonar) derives its name from the Icelandic scholar and antiquarian \u00c1rni Magn\u00fasson (1663\u20131730) \u2014 Arnas Magn\u00e6us in Latinised form \u2014 who in addition to his duties as Secretary of the Royal Archives and Professor of Danish Antiquities at the University of Copenhagen, spent much of his life building up the collection of manuscripts that now bears his name.  The majority of these manuscripts were from \u00c1rni’s native Iceland, but he also acquired many important Norwegian, Danish and Swedish manuscripts, as well as a number of continental provenances. In addition to the manuscripts proper, the collection contains about 14000 Icelandic, Norwegian (including Faroese, Shetland and Orcadian) and Danish charters, both originals and first-hand copies (apographa). After being housed since \u00c1rni’s death at the University of Copenhagen, in the Arnamagn\u00e6an Institute, under a 1965 parliamentary ruling the collection is now divided between there and the \u00c1rni Magn\u00fasson Institute for Icelandic Studies in Reykjav\u00edk, Iceland.[1]  History[edit]When \u00c1rni died in 1730 he bequeathed his collection to the University of Copenhagen, whereupon it became part of the University Library. The collection has been augmented over the years through individual purchases and gifts and the acquisition of a number of smaller collections, for example, that of the Danish grammarian Rasmus Rask, bringing the total number of items to around 3000. In 1956 the Arnamagn\u00e6an Institute (Danish: Det Arnamagn\u00e6anske Institut, now Den Arnamagn\u00e6anske Samling) was established to care for and further the study of the manuscripts in the collection.Even before its constitutional separation from Denmark in 1944, Iceland had begun to petition for the return of these manuscripts. After much-heated debate, the Danish parliament decided in May 1965 that such documents in the Arnamagn\u00e6an Collection as might be held to be “Icelandic cultural property” (islandsk kultureje) \u2014 broadly defined as a work composed or translated by an Icelander and whose content is wholly or chiefly concerned with Iceland \u2014 were to be transferred to the newly established Icelandic Manuscript Institute (now the \u00c1rni Magn\u00fasson Institute for Icelandic Studies, Icelandic: Stofnun \u00c1rna Magn\u00fassonar \u00ed \u00edslenskum fr\u00e6\u00f0um), a part of the University of Iceland. It further provided for the transfer from the Danish Royal Library (Det kongelige Bibliotek) of manuscripts belonging to the same categories as the manuscripts relinquished by the Arnamagn\u00e6an Institute, and contained a special clause relating to the transfer to Iceland of two manuscripts, the Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda and the vellum codex Flateyjarb\u00f3k, both of which were in the Danish Royal Library (and would not have been deemed islandsk kultureje under the terms of the treaty). These were handed over to Iceland in a ceremony held immediately after the ratification of the treaty in 1971. The first consignment of manuscripts was dispatched from Copenhagen to Reykjav\u00edk in June 1973 and the last two were handed over in June 1997. Altogether a total of 1,666 manuscripts, and all the Icelandic charters and apographa, have been transferred to Iceland, slightly over half the collection, in addition to 141 manuscripts from the Danish Royal Library.  Of the manuscripts remaining in Copenhagen, about half is Icelandic but are either copies made in Copenhagen, have as their chief concern matters not directly related to Iceland, e.g. the histories of the kings of Norway and Denmark, religious texts or translations from Latin and other languages. The remainder of the collection comprises the Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and continental European manuscripts mentioned above.In 2009 the Arnamagn\u00e6an Manuscript Collection was added to UNESCO\u2019s Memory of the World Register in recognition of its historical value.[2]In 2019 the Arnamagn\u00e6an Institute announced that one of the manuscripts in the collection (AM 377 fol.) was identified as Ferdinand Columbus\u2019s Libro de los Ep\u00edtomes.[3][4]  References[edit]External links[edit]"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki14\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki14\/arnamagnaean-manuscript-collection-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Arnamagn\u00e6an Manuscript Collection – Wikipedia"}}]}]