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In the firft of the three rooms of which the library is compofed, is a marble buft ofCharles XL placed there in 1701 by Ben . Oxenjiiern ; in the third that of Guftavus-Adolphus, erected in 1732 by Frederic I.
The fir ft room contains belles lettres , hiftory, and natural hiftory. The fecond wasadded by the late King in 1767, when Prince-royal, as appears from the infcription overthe door. The third comprifes jurifprudence, theology, and phytic.
The mod valuable article in this libraryis the gothic manufcript known under the nameof Codex argenteus. It contains the four evangelifts in letters of gold and filver, each lineinterlined; 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 tranllation of fome paffages in latin : we dohot believe it has been printed, as fome travellers affirm. Befndes this, Commentaria hi/ioricaRegis Erici XIV. cum direElionibus et prafeclionibus planetarum domorum , et partium proanno 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 vellutn, with figures coarfelydrawn, incomplete and much damaged. The Edda was compofed by the layman Stur-lefon, in the thirteenth century ; he was murdered in an infurre&ion. Mr. Mallet inhis introduction to the hiftory of Denmark , fpeaking of this work fays, “ J. P. Refeniuspublifhed the firft edition of the Edda in 4to. at Copenhagen , in 1665; by the fide ofthe text is a verfion in latin by Stephanus Ola'i, a learned ecclefiaftic of Iceland , and aDanifii tranllation by Stephanius, with variations taken from a manufcript of MagnusOlai, an Icelander. The mod ancient manufcript of the Edda is thought to be thatwhich belongs to the King of Denmark : it is confidered to have been written at theclofe of the thirteenth century or the beginning of the fourteenth. A valuable manu-fcript of the Edda is alfo to be feen at Upfal. Mr. Goeurandfon has publifhed it with aSwedifti and latin verfion : the text of this edition differs very immaterially from that ofRefenius.” We have a difficulty in comprehending how,a complete tranllation of thatwork could poffibly be made from a manufcript in fuch an imperfect ftate. The lawsof Iceland , a very ancient manufcript on vellum. Dialogus creaturarum moralifatus ;the firft work publifhed in Sweden at Stockholm , 1483. . Manuale ecclefim Linkopenfts ran extremely rare work. Sccuderkceuping, 1525, the only one known. A latin commen-tary on theJeven pfalms, 1515, the firft work publilhed at Upfal. The fame volume ofRudbeck as is found in the King’s library at Stockholm . Thomas Aquinas Secundafecunda, in folio, Mentz, 1467, in good prefervation. Two editions of the Catholicon ofthe 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 biblein folio, 1494, Lubeck ; this is the oldeft German bible printed. A Bohemian bible ,1489, fmall folio, with figures in wood. Pliny, in latin, Rome , 1473? in folio, on paper.Suetonius, 1470, Rome , in folio, on paper. The molt ancient Swedifta bible, Upfal,.1541. The New tejlament in Swedilh, with the arms of Guftavus Vafa, Stockholm *1526. The laws of Sweden, on vellum, 1617, at Stockholm , very elegant. Thelibrary confifts of nearly fifty thoufand Volumes. The manufcripts are on the firftftory. The univerfity bought a collection of five hundred volumes of manufcripts ofthe widow of Mr. Palmjkolds, molt cf them are in 4to. fome rare articles among themhave been printed. Profeffor Giorgi arranged and made a catalogue of them, which-confifts of two large volumes. Notwithftanding the number of manufcripts is very con-fiderable, many receptacles are empty. There is nothing among them Angularly valu-able except the Diarium Wadjlenenfe, an original manufcript on vellum, fmall quarto,,written by different hands from 1344 to 1544. This work was publifhed by Benzelius,at Upfal, in 1721: Mr, Nordin is about to publifh a new edition. The fund fet apart