Highlight of the month
Each month the conservation department highlights one of the many treasures found in the library.
2014
Eyvindur of the Mountains
An original manuscript of the play Fjalla-Eyvindur (Eyvindur of the Mountains) by Jóhann Sigurjónsson is kept in the Manuscript...
2014
Passion Hymns. JS 337 4to.
This year 400 years have passed since the priest and poet Hallgrímur Pétursson (1614-1674) was born. This famous and much loved work...
2014
Brynjólfur Sveinsson biskup
a novel from the 17th century by Torfhildur Þorsteinsdóttir Hólm Torfhildur Þorsteinsdóttir Hólm (1845-1918) was the first...
2014
Letters from Nína Tryggvadóttir to Erlendur in Unuhús
In a collection of letters of Erlendur Guðmundsson (1892-1947), always associated with Unuhús, which was opened formally in the...
2014
CRYMOGAEA SIVE RERUM ISLANDICARVM
This book was the first historical description of Iceland since Ari fróði´s Íslendingabók (1122-1133) and the first comprehensive...
2013
The Christmas stamps of the Thorvaldsen Society
The Thorvaldsen Society was the first women´s society in Reykjavik, founded on the 19th of November 1875.– Young women had been...
2013
Morgunblaðið
Morgunblaðið was first published on the 2nd of November 1913 and thus celebrates its centennial this year. The paper stores...
2013
Arabian Nights in Icelandic
Steingrímur Thorsteinsson (1831–1913) was an Icelandic poet and writer. He translated many works of literature into Icelandic,...
2013
Women‘s Reading Society
was founded in Reykjavík on Sept. 18 in 1911 by members of the Women‘s Rights Organization which had run a women‘s reading room for...
2013
Íslenzkt ástarljóð
Íslenzkt ástarljóð performed by Sigfús Halldórsson who also composed the song with lyrics by Vilhjálmur from Skáholt. Íslenskir...
2013
„Sigling“ (Torna a Surriento).
The recording was released on a 78 rpm record in 1933. Performed by Erling Ólafsson (1910–1934), a singer who died at the age of...
2013
Gvendur dúllari
Guðmundur Árnason was born on 7 July 1833. He was brought up at the farm Tunga in Vestur-Landeyjahreppur parish, but he was young...
2013
On the rights of women
The name of Bríet Bjarnhéðinsdóttir (1856-1940) is strongly connected with women’s liberation in Iceland. At the end of 1887 she...
2013
Eiríkur Magnússon´s idea about the future library from 1886
Eiríkur Magnússon (1833-1913), who was an Icelandic scholar and librarian at Cambridge, introduced an idea about the future library...
2013
Einfalt Matreiðslu Vasa Qver fyrir heldri manna húsfr.
Matreiðsluvasakver fyrir heldri manna húsfreyjur, published by Magnús Stephensen in 1800, was the first published Icelandic...
