Uppsala - University Library

(Local Name: Carolina Rediviva) The Uppsala University Library (Carolina Rediviva) is the largest library in Sweden, with over 2 million volumes and some 30,000 manuscripts. Other valuable items are the Codex Upsaliensis (the oldest manuscript of Snorri Sturluson's Younger Edda, ca. 1300), the Decretum Concilii Upsaliensis of 1593, with many signatures, and Olaus Magnus's Carta Marina (a map of northern Europe printed in Venice in 1539). The oldest Swedish printed book is dated 1483.