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3 unusual facts about Royal Library


Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour

Once again adjudication of members’ works took place in order to send another 15 paintings to be added to the 60 Canadian holdings at the Royal Library at Windsor Castle to become a part of the CSPWC's Royal Collection Project.

Holmen naval base

Christian IV of Denmark built a “war port” on Slotsholmen, but the harbor’s basin has been filled since and today is the site of the Royal Library.

St. Agnes' Priory, Gavnø

At his death all the books published before 1530 were donated to the Royal Library in Copenhagen.


Alexander Marshal

His florilegium is now part of the collections of the Royal Library at Windsor Castle.

Attavante degli Attavanti

An imitator of Bartolomeo della Gatta, he was employed by Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, for whom he executed a missal, now in the Royal Library at Brussels.

Eva Bonnier

She established a foundation for the beautification of Stockholm, which in its first years financed paintings and sculptures for public places and institutions, such as the Royal Library, Stockholm University, and several Stockholm schools.

Ignatiigränd

The latter was a famous printer named Ignatius Meurer (1589–1672) who was, according to a memorial verse found in the Royal Library, born in Blankenburg, Schwarzburg, Germany, immigrated to Stockholm in 1610 and eventually through marriage became the owner of a printing workshop and settled in the block north of the alley.


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Angelo Carletti di Chivasso

The first edition of the "Summa Angelica" appeared in the year 1476, and from that year to the year 1520 it went through 31 editions, 25 of which are preserved in the Royal Library at Munich.

Charles-Joseph Natoire

Henceforth, numerous royal commissions came his way for the petits appartements at the Château de Fontainebleau, for the Cabinet du Roi and the royal dining-room at Versailles, decorations for Marly, for the Cabinet des Médailles in the royal library in Paris, and others.

Destruction of the Library of Alexandria

he describes a certain "John Grammaticus" (490–570) asking Amr for the "books in the royal library."

Fronton du Duc

At the suggestion of Casaubon, Henry IV of France contemplated the publication of manuscripts of the royal library.

Karl Felix Halm

In 1849, having held appointments at Speyer and Hadamar, he became rector of the newly founded Maximiliansgymnasium at Munich, and in 1856 director of the royal library and professor in the University of Munich.

Mir Musavvir

According to the contemporary chronicler Dust Muhammad, he and Aqa Mirak worked together closely in service to the Safavid royal library who did wall paintings for the palace of Prince Sam Mirza and illustrations for royal manuscripts of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh ('Book of kings') and Nizami's Khamsa ('Five poems').

Moses Botarel Farissol

Both these works, in manuscript, are preserved in the royal library at Munich.

The British Museum Library: a Short History and Survey

The Foundation – the Act of 1753 and the opening – Origins of the Foundation Collections – The Suppression of the Monasteries : Archbishop Parker and the Antiquaries – Robert Cotton, the Harleys and the Old Royal Library – The Royal Society and the Scientists : Arundel – The Movement towards a Public Library The Establishment of the Museum.

Thomason Collection of Civil War Tracts

In that same year King George III donated the collection to the new British Museum at Montagu House, where they were originally known as the "King's pamphlets" and added to the Royal Library Collection.