Uppsala University
The New University buildings in Uppsala's Slottsgatan were erected in 1879-86, in sumptuous style (staircases of green Swedish marble). In the Chancellor's Room is a magnificent carved cabinet from Augsburg. In the University gardens behind the Gustavianum are runic stones and a bronze statue of the historian and poet E. G. Geijer.
A number of Chinese dinosaurs can be found in the Paleontological Museum.
A number of Chinese dinosaurs can be found in the Paleontological Museum.
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Uppsala University Library - Codex Argenteus Manuscript
Uppsala's University Library's greatest treasure (in its display collection) is the famous Codex Argenteus, probably written at Ravenna in the reign of Theodoric the Great (sixth C.). It contains the translation of the Gospels by the Gothic bishop Wulfila or Ulfilas (d. 383), written in silver and gold letters on 187 pages of purple parchment, in a 17th century silver binding.
University Library
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.
