september : Copenhagen, recent reading, &c

It’s September again, and the annual congress of the Association internationale de bibliophile (A.I.B.) will be held in Copenhagen 7-14 September. I am looking forward to the gathering, in particular the chance to see the Arnamagnæan manuscripts at the university of Copenhagen. And the surprises to be encountered in a city I’ve never before visited.

Watercolor of Greenland winter scene, ca. 1860, from an album presented to Danish King Frederik VII

Watercolor scenes of Greenland, ca. 1860, from an album presented to Danish King Frederik VII [in the King’s Reference Library].

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On the island near the Opera House, Copenhagen.

view of the Opera House from the Amaliaborg Palace

View of the Opera House from the Amalienborg Palace.

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Arne Jacobsen and Flemming Lassen. The House of the Future. [Copenhagen, 1929]. Drawing at the Royal Library in the Skatte / Treasures exhibition

The House of the Future. [Copenhagen, 1929]. Drawing by Arne Jacobsen and Flemming Lassen, at the Royal Library in the Skatte / Treasures exhibition.

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the view from the hill, easy nature at Louisiana, Denmark

The view from the hill, at Louisiana (Sweden on the distant shore).
/ file under : easy nature

Alexander Calder at Louisiana, Denmark

Alexander Calder at Louisiana.

Richard Serra at Louisiana, Denmark

Richard Serra at Louisiana.

A.I.B. Copenhagen : book fair in Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek

A.I.B. Copenhagen : book fair in Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek this morning

A.I.B. Copenhagen : book fair in Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek

Ny Carlsberg Glyptotheket

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current reading :

— 66 [Sixty-six] Manuscripts from the Arnamagnæan Collection. Edited by Matthew James Driscoll [and] Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir. Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, [2015].
Illustrated commentary and discussion of selected manuscripts collected by Icelander Árni Magnússon in the late seventeenth and earliest eighteenth century : the wellspring of Icelandic literature, and of mediaeval Danish and Icelandic history and culture.

— Christopher Moore. Anima Rising. A Novel. William Morrow, [2025].

recent reading :

— Michael Innes. Appleby on Ararat (1941). Penguin Books, [1961].

— Michael Innes. Appleby at Allington [1968]. Penguin Books, [1970].
It was, Appleby reflected uncharitably, the successful Englishman’s chosen route to going soft.