Czech books in the 1765 auction of the Strängnäs Cathedral Library
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://kramerius.lib.cas.cz/uuid/uuid:94efbf2f-6662-4fc3-ad07-195b2a93e532" target="_blank" >https://kramerius.lib.cas.cz/uuid/uuid:94efbf2f-6662-4fc3-ad07-195b2a93e532</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.23852/KAD.2022.29.01" target="_blank" >10.23852/KAD.2022.29.01</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Czech books in the 1765 auction of the Strängnäs Cathedral Library
Original language description
This study explores the collection of Czech books in the Strängnäs Cathedral Library. The books were taken to Sweden as war booty at the end of the Thirty Years' War and are today the most compactly preserved collection of books of Czech provenance in Sweden. This so-called war library, which the Chapter received as a gift from Queen Christina I, was not seen by the new administrators as an integral part of the Church's property. This paper aims to answer two questions: First, when and how the Chapter’s mental barrier broke down, second, what factors played a role in the reorganisation of Cathedral Library in 1764-1765 and the selection of books for the auction sale. To answer these questions, I analysed the manuscript catalogue of the Cathedral Library from the 1750s and the printed auction catalogue of 1764. In addition, I surveyed preserved copies, particularly those auctioned by the Cathedral Library. My findings reveal that it took more than a century for the looted books to integrate into the new cultural environment in Strängnäs. Their merger with the original Cathedral Library did not take place until the 1750s and 1760s as part of a reorganisation aimed at creating a modern historical collection. This reorganisation included massive disposal of books, a large amount of which came from the Czech book spoils. The research findings also indicate that the war origin played no significant role in their selection and sale. The fate of the Czech book spoils in Strängnäs represents a complex case of incorporating books from war booty into a new cultural environment. The study is one of the first contributions to the question of the so-called second life of Czech book spoils in Sweden.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA22-06083S" target="_blank" >GA22-06083S: The Swedish War Booty of Books from the Czech Lands</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Knihy a dějiny
ISSN
1210-8510
e-ISSN
2571-2322
Volume of the periodical
29
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1-2
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
36
Pages from-to
6-42
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85142629811