Sigismund II Augustus’ Volumes in Åbo Akademi Library, Finland : Renaissance Books in a Transnational, National and Regional Context
Abstract
The present article explores the history of three medical volumes that once belonged to the important book collection of the King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, Sigismund II Augustus (1520–1572), and its possible itinerary to Finland, where it is currently located in Åbo Akademi Library, Turku. The article sheds light on the people and professions who were interested in the valuable continental, Renaissance books originally possessed by the uncle of the deposed Catholic King Sigismund (1566–1632) and their meaning to both the national and regional cultures in Sweden and Finland. It stretches the concept of a Renaissance book collector geographically to Northern Europe, and temporally to the emergence of the modern period.
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Format
Articles
Research article
Published
2022
Series
Subjects
Publication in research information system
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
The permanent address of the publication
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202401121227Käytä tätä linkitykseen.
Review status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0080-6765
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/00806765.2022.2139752
Language
English
Published in
Scando-slavica
Citation
- Niiranen, S. (2022). Sigismund II Augustus’ Volumes in Åbo Akademi Library, Finland : Renaissance Books in a Transnational, National and Regional Context. Scando-slavica, 68(2), 224-238. https://doi.org/10.1080/00806765.2022.2139752
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Funder(s)
Research Council of Finland
Funding program(s)
Academy Project, AoF
Akatemiahanke, SA
Additional information about funding
The author thanks the‘Late Medieval and Early Modern Libraries as Knowledge Repositories, Guardians of Tradition and Catalysts of Change’project financed by the Academy of Finland and University of Jyväskylä (no. 307635, 1 September 2017–31 May 2022), for which she worked in 2019–2021.
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