Gustav's Hand

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  • The restrictions are lifted

    Johan Sjöberg, Ph.D., Archivist at Uppsala University Library, Project Archivist The university library and the Department of History at Uppsala University started the project Gustav’s Hand because, in 2019, it […]

  • Snapshots of Royal Christmas Shopping

    Mikael Alm, Professor of History, Project Manager Volume F. 413 in the Gustavian Collection holds a collection of documents by Gustav III’s hand regarding various ceremonial and festive occasions, ranging from […]

  • The Bookbinder’s and Conservator’s Work in Gustav’s Hand

    Gustav Duberg, Project Bookbinder & Carl Krantz, Project Conservator The first step is to dismantle the volume. This is done by cutting the endpaper near the inner edge of the […]

  • Gustav III’s writings, digitally published in their entirety

    Johan Sjöberg, Ph.D., Archivist at Uppsala University Library, Project Archivist Gustav III’s private archive – the so-called Gustavian Collection – consists partly of Gustav’s own writings, partly of letters and other documents […]

  • Kungen, amiralen och de hemliga krigsplanerna

    Sebastian Cöllen, Ph.D., Librarian & Researcher, Project HTR-Coordinator Nu är HTR-läsningen (Handwritten text recognition) av kung Gustav III:s brev i full gång! Projektet använder sig av Transkribus, en plattform som […]

  • The note

    The note is one of the smallest but also one of the more symbolically condensed items in the Gustavian collection. As King Gustav III prepared to leave for the Russian front in June 1788, he made all necessary arrangements.

  • The Gustavian collection as a tourist attraction, 1792‒1842

    For fifty years, Gustav III’s archives – the Gustavian Collection – were kept at Uppsala University Library in two locked chests, one huge, the other more like a suitcase. When the collection was opened on the 50th anniversary of Gustav’s death, the German newspaper Allgemeine Zeitung noted that the locked chests had attracted the attention of all…

  • Upcoming

    “Building Research Infrastructure: Digitisation, Digital Enhancement, and Dissemination of the Gustavian Collection”: Project participants Mikael Alm, Sebastian Cöllen, and Johan Sjöberg present the project at the recently started Seminar for […]

  • Hur långt är egentligen 50 år?

    Den 29 mars 1842 öppnades Gustav III:s efterlämnade papper i ett nyss övergivet Gustavianum i Uppsala. Det måste ha känts ganska ödsligt där när universitetsbibliotekets böcker just flyttats upp till det nybyggda Carolina Rediviva och lämnat 1700-talets biblioteksbyggnad helt tom. Kungen hade i sitt testamente förklarat att det måste gå 50 år efter hans död…