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Swedish Literary Spoils of War from the Czech Lands

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In 1648, Queen Christina gave the University in Uppsala 120 duplicates; mostly historic works that chiefly came from the Dietrichstein library and book collections of religious institutions in Olomouc (books looted from Prague arrived in Stockholm only in 1649). A list of these books was created upon their delivery in 1648 and it has survived in the archives of the Uppsala University Library. Other books that came from Czech lands arrived in Uppsala later. Some of them came from the personal libraries of people who Queen Christina gave larger numbers of books (Magnus de la Gardie, Erik Appelgren, etc.). Other books that originated in the Czech lands came to Uppsala through the book auction organized by the Strängnäs cathedral library in 1764. Therefore, the Uppsala collection includes books from Moravian libraries as well as those from the imperial library in Prague and the Rožmberk collection.

The range of books looted during the war that are currently held by the Uppsala University Library cannot be precisely determined because of the lack of provenance indicators. Only incunables can be completely determined (W. Undorf), as well as those books included in the independent collection of rare bindings. Printed works of Bohemical origin can thus only be partially determined, mostly on the basis of older (published and unpublished) findings by Swedish historian Otto Walde and other individual reports of discoveries.