Stockholm: Kungliga biblioteket
The first consignment of books from the Czech lands arrived in Stockholm in 1647 and comprised around 16,000 books from Olomouc and Mikulov; a further shipment followed in the spring of 1649 and consisted of approximately 9,000 books from Prague. In the years 1650–1651, these collections were systematically catalogued and marked with a characteristic handwritten shelfmark indicating individual subject categories. Although part of the books was dispersed shortly thereafter through donations made by Queen Christina I. to various Swedish institutions and private individuals, the vast majority remained part of the National Library of Sweden until 1697, when a major fire broke out in the royal palace of Tre Kronor.
The fire had a devastating impact on the library: almost twenty thousand volumes were destroyed, and only 6,826 printed books and 283 manuscripts survived. In addition, many original composite volumes were disbound after the fire, and individual printed books were provided with new bindings.
From a provenance perspective, it is currently possible to identify comprehensively only the manuscripts (Chr. Callmer) and incunabula (W. Undorf) within the holdings of the National Library of Sweden. Printed books of Bohemical provenance are so far recorded only partially, primarily based on older—published and unpublished—data collected by the Swedish historian Otto Walde and individual discovery reports by Czech and Swedish scholars. In recent years, brief information on the original provenance of books originating from the Swedish literary spoils of war has also begun to appear more systematically in the electronic catalogue of the National Library, Regina.
Prameny, katalogy a literatura
- Otto Walde: Storhetstidens litterära krigsbyten proveniensanteckningar (rukopisný katalog uložený v Univerzitní knihovně v Uppsale)
- Otto Walde: Storhetstidens litterära krigsbyten. En kultur-historisk-bibliografisk studie . I-II. Uppsala–Stockholm 1916–1920.
- Christian Callmer: Königin Christina, ihre Bibliothekare und ihre Handschriften: Beiträge zur europäischen Bibliotheksgeschichte. Stockholm 1977.
- Beda Dudík: Forschungen in Schweden für Mahrens Geschichte. Brünn 1852.
- Wolfgang Undorf: Catalogue of books printed in the 15th century in Swedish collections I-II. Wiesbaden 2012.
- Lenka Veselá: Knihy na dvoře Rožmberků. Praha 2005, s. 253 – 254.