The Swedish Booty of Books from Bohemia and Moravia 1646-1648
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Catalogues
A digital copy of manuscript catalogues taken to Sweden
Rožmberk Library Catalogue
(1602–1608, addenda to 1612)
National Library of Sweden, MS U 378
The catalogue was created under the direction of librarian Václav Březan at the Rožmberk court in Třebon. It is divided into four parts and includes about 10,000 manuscripts and books. It is a unique source for understanding the condition of the Rožmberk library at the time of Petr Vok of Rožmberk’s death (1612).
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The Dietrichstein Library Catalogue
(1646)
National Library of Sweden, MS U 377
The catalogue was created on the order of the Swedish command as an inventory of the books before their transportation to Sweden. The author was Swedish Commissioner Johan Busso and it includes records of more than 8,000 books.
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The Catalogue from the Library of Jakub Konrád Praetorius of Perlenberg
(1616–1617)
National Library of Sweden, MS U 376
The youngest alphabetically-ordered catalogue from the library of Brno physician Jakub Konrád Praetorius comes from 1616–1617. New acquisitions were added to this catalogue in the following years, but this catalogue does not include some of the details recorded in the two previous catalogues.
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The Catalogue from the Library of Jakub Konrád Praetorius of Perlenberg
(1616)
National Library of Sweden, MS U 374
This alphabetical catalogue from Brno physician Jakub Konrád Praetorius’s library from 1616 remains incomplete (ends with the letter M).
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The Catalogue from the Library of Jakub Konrád Praetorius of Perlenberg
(1601–1612)
National Library of Sweden, MS U 375
A handwritten concept of an alphabetical catalogue from the library of Brno physician Jakub Konrád Praetorius that later became part of the library owned by Franz of Dietrichstein.
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