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FORTIA’S TRAVELS IN SWIDEN. 477
In the firft of the three rooms of which the library is compofed, is a marble buft of
Charles XI. placed there in t7ox1 by Ben. Oxen/tiern ; in the third that of Guftavus
Adolphus, erected in 1731 by Frederic I.
The firft room contains belles /ettres, hiftory, and natural hiftory. The fecond was
added by the late King in 1767, when Prince-royal, as appears from the infcription over
the door. The third comprifes jurifprudence, theology, and phytic.
The moft valuable article in this libraryis the gothic manufcript knownunder the name
of Codex argenteus. It contains the four evangelifts in letters of gold and filver, eachline *
interlined; it is in 4to., is incomplete at both beginning and end,and confifts of one hun-
dred and eighty-feven leaves ; in the margin is a tranflation of fome paflages in latin : we do
not believe it has been printed, as fome travellers affirm. Befides this, Commentaria hi/torica
Regis Erici XIV. cum directionibus et profectionibus planetarum domorum, et partium pro
anno 1566, an original in his own hand writing; the fame for the year 1567, a copy.
Edda et Scalda, a very valuable Icelandic manufcript on vellum, with figures coarfely
drawn, incomplete and much damaged. ‘The Edda was compofed by the layman Stur-
defon, in the thirteenth century ; he was murdered in an infurrection. Mr. Mallet in
his introduction to the hiftory of Denmark, {peaking of this work fays, “J. P. Re/enius
publithed the firft edition of the Edda in 4to..at Copenhagen, in 1665; by the fide of
the text is a verfion in latin by Stephanus Olai, a learned ecclefiaftic of Iceland, and a
Danifh tranflation by Stephanius, with variations taken from a manufcript of Magnus
Olai, an Icelander. The moft ancient manufcript of the Edda is thought to be that
which belongs to the King of Denmark: it is confidered to have been written at the
clofe of the thirteenth century or the beginning of the fourteenth. A valuable manu-
{cript of the Edda is alfo to be feen at Upfal. Mr. Goeurandfon has publifhed it with a
Swedifh and latin verfion : the text of this edition differs very immaterially from that of
Refenius.” We have a difficulty in comprehending how{a complete tranflation of that
work could poffibly be made from a manufcript in fuch an imperfect ftate. The /aws
of Iceland, a very ancient manufcript on vellum. Dialogus creaturarum moralifatus ;
the firft work publifhed in Sweden at Stockholm, 1483. Manuale ecclefia Linkopenfis,
an extremely rare work. Seuderkeuping, 1525, the only one known. A Jatin commen-
tary on the feven pfalms, 1515, the firlt work publifhed at Upfal. The fame volume of
Rudbeck as is found in the King’s library at Stockholm. Thomas Aquinas Secunda
fecunde, in folio, Mentz, 1467, in good prefervation. Two editions of the Catholicon of
the fifteenth century, without a date. A German bible, which belonged to Luther, Wit-
temberg, 1541. ‘The firft folio bible is in latin: Nuremberg, 1475. A German bible
in folio, 1494, Lubeck ; this is the oldeft German bible printed. A Bohemian bible,
1489, {mall folio, with figures in wood. Pliny, in latin, Rome, 1473, in folio, on paper.
Suetonius, 1470, Rome, in folio, on paper. The moft ancient Swedifh bible, Upfal,
1541. The New tefament in Swedifh, with the arms of Guftavus Vala, Stockholm,
3526. The laws of Sweden, on vellum, 1617, at Stockholm, very elegant. ‘The
library confifts of nearly fifty thoufand volumes. The manufcripts are on the firft
ftory. The univerfity bought a collection of five hundred volumes of manufcripts of
the widow of Mr. Palm/fholds, moft cf them are in 4to. fome rare articles among them
have been printed. _Profeffor Giorgi arranged and made a catalogue of them, which
confifts of two large volumes. Notwith{tanding the number of manufcripts is very con-
fiderable, many receptacles are empty. ‘There is nothing among them fingularly valu-
able except the Diarium Wadfenen/e, an original manufcript on vellum, {mall quarto,
written by different hands from 1344 to 1544. This work was publifhed by Benzelius,
at Upfal, in 1721: Mr, Nordin is about to publifha new edition, ‘The fund fet apa
OX,
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