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Ivan Boserup
Head of the Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books, The Danish Royal Library, Copenhagen.

Born 1944 in Copenhagen, Denmark. M.A. (Classical Philology) from Copenhagen University 1969. With The Royal Library since 1969.

Has published on the history of Classical Studies, on the transmission of mediaeval Latin texts (Saxo Grammaticus; abbot William of Æbelholt), and - together with Professor Rolena Adorno of Yale University - on the manuscripts of the illustrated chronicles of Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (El Primer Nueva Corónica y Buen Gobierno, Peru, 1615) and fray Martín de Murúa (Historia general del Pirú, ca. 1596 and ca. 1615).

Co-founder in 1975 of Museum Tusculanum Press, [[Copenhagen University]; chairman of its the Executive Committee 1975-2009.

Member of the Executive Committee of CERL (The Consortium of European Research Libraries) ; Coordinator of the multilingual, free-to-all CERL Portal: Manuscripts and Early Printed Material

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