Carolina Rediviva (University Library)
This is one of the greatest of all Scandinavian libraries. At the end of Drottninggatan is the Carolina Rediviva, with more than 5 million volumes and 40,000 manuscripts, including many rare works from the Middle Ages. The most treasured manuscript is the Codex Argenteus or Silver Bible. Displayed in the exhibit room, it was translated into Gothic in the middle of the 3rd century and copied in about A.D. 525. It's the only book extant in old Gothic script, having been written in silver ink on purple vellum. Also worth seeing is the 1539 Carta Marina, the earliest map of Sweden and its neighboring countries.
This is one of the greatest of all Scandinavian libraries. At the end of Drottninggatan is the Carolina Rediviva, with more than 5 million volumes and 40,000 manuscripts, including many rare works from the Middle Ages. The most treasured manuscript is the Codex Argenteus or Silver Bible. Displayed in the exhibit room, it was translated into Gothic in the middle of the 3rd century and copied in about A.D. 525. It's the only book extant in old Gothic script, having been written in silver ink on purple vellum. Also worth seeing is the 1539 Carta Marina, the earliest map of Sweden and its neighboring countries.
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