SUMMARY
Six Latin-Danish dictionaries from the 16th century have been published in facsimile.The publisher, Universitets-Jubilæets danske Samfund, is planning to complete theseries with an index for all the volumes.At the time of their composition, the dictionaries were meant to function as textbooksin Latin education; in our time they are a unique source material for bothScandinavian and classical philologists and for historians and cultural historians.This article describes the preliminary work in establishing an index. All thevolumes were carefully analysed in order to detennine the total amount of types ofinformation and to determine the external appearance of the books. This analysismakes it possible to define a database.Finally, different problems concerning the database such as structuring, nonnalization,inclusion and exclusion are discussed.