Collection of Danish Bookplates

Collection

Call Number: BKP 13

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of both private and institutional bookplates from Denmark as well as ephemeral materials related to the collection.

Dates

circa 1700-1979

Language of Materials

In English and Danish.

Conditions Governing Access

The materials are open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The Yale Bookplate Collection was formerly housed in Sterling Memorial Library. The collection was incorporated into the Arts of the Book Collection in 1984 and then moved to the Seeley G. Mudd Library in 1990. In 2011 it was transferred to the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library.

Arrangement

Organized into three series and one addition: I. Bookplates - Individuals. II. Bookplates - Organizations, Institutions, and Businesses. III. Bookplates - Artists; 2015 Addition.

The arrangement preserves the original alphabetical ordering by which special letters and those with diacritical marks were sorted at the end of the alphabet. Any correspondence or ephemeral materials relating to a specific bookplate are filed together with the bookplate.

Extent

3.75 Linear Feet (9 boxes)

Catalog Record

A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog

Persistent URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/arts.bkp.0013

Additional Description

Abstract

The collection consists of both private and institutional bookplates from Denmark, bookplates by Danish artists, and ephemeral materials related to the collection.

Processing Information

Some materials included in this collection indicate the provenance of the following collectors: Baron Gunnar Trönnberg of Sweden, Arvid Berghman, Erik N. Ellert, and A. Bernard C. K. Keeves.