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- From inside the Swedish Historical Museum.
- Reproductions of objects testifying to early life in Sweden.
- (10,000 BC - 1500; photo facsimiles)
- Ranging from Runes and the Poetic Edda to the Christmas messages of King Carl Gustaf XVI.
- Browse by theme.
- (Mainly Swedish texts; transcriptions)
- Medieval Swedish Digital Resources provided by the Royal Archives.
- (Transcriptions and facsimiles)
- Abridged version; a textbook on medicine and surgery
- (1425; Latin; facsimile)
- Soundtoll Registers Online = Øresundstoldregnskaber
- Accounts of the toll which the king of Denmark levied on shipping through the Sound between Sweden and Denmark.
- Important sources for research on economic and maritime trade history in Northern Europe.
- (1497-1857; searchable datasets - registration may be required to view results)
- "Eternal Peace" between Russia and Sweden.
- (May 18, 1595; Swedish, Finnish)
- "The leaves in the collection come from books that were confiscated by the Crown in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries."
- (16th-17th century; Finnish and English)
- German peace treaties with France and Sweden
- Compiled by Acta Pacis Westphalicae
- (17th century; Latin transcription with German interface)
- Sunk in Stockholm Harbor on its maiden voyage in 1628 and raised in 1961.
- Official website of the Vasa Museum.
- Click on "Choose Language" dialogue box if necessary.
- (10 August 1628; Images with English or Swedish commentary)
- See also English-language sites on the Vasa's revival, and its chronology.
- (Images, commentary and bibliographies)
- Works of Johannes Messenius
- A significant story writer, historian, and professor who would later become imprisoned
- Sveopentaprotopolis
- Retorsio imposturarum
- (1612; Latin and Swedish facsimile)
- Original manuscript, digitized. Includes battles of the kings
- (1616; Swedish facsimile)
- Digitized letters of 17th century political figures
- Compiled by Acta Pacis Westphalicae
- (1636-1648; Swedish, Latin, German and French transcriptions with German commentary)
- Digitized letters of 17th century political figures across Europe
- Compiled by Acta Pacis Westphalicae
- (1636-1648; German, French, and Swedish transcriptions with German commentary)
- Manuscript from Early Books and Special Collections Reading Room
- (1649; Swedish facsimile)
- Demographic Database of Southern Sweden.
- A searchable compendium of vital statistics.
- (1650-1900; Swedish)
- Treaty ending the Second Northern War.
- (1658; Danish)
- Sunk during the Scanian War with Denmark
- (1676; photographic facsimiles and English commentary)
- A demographic database unifying archival holdings in national and regional archives.
- Folk censuses, parish registers, and other vital statistics.
- (17th-20th centuries; searchable vital statistics)
- Treaty between Denmark-Norway and Sweden during the Great Northern War.
- (August 19, 1700; German)
- Peace treaty ending the Great Northern War. The treaty discusses administrative and territorial conditions between Russia and Sweden.
- Ability to search text of modern Russian translation.
- Modern Russian translations also available here.
- (30 August 1721; Old Russian transcription, modern Russian translation)
- (1200-1809; Finnish & Swedish transcriptions and English translations.)
- Treaty of Peace Between Russia and Sweden
- Between Friedrich the 1st and Peter the 1st
- (9 September 1721, German facsimile with Swedish and Russian transcriptions)
- A searchable database of documents on the Swedish East Indian Company.
- From the holdings of the Gothenburg university library.
- Searching the records turns up facsimiles of the records and a list of people appearing in the document.
- (1731-1831; facsimiles)
- (1565-1945; Swedish transcriptions)
- A collection of contemporary documents and lists.
- Swedish royal and regents, plus other historical persons:
- Biographical and genealogical data in Swedish only.
- Alphabetically or geographically searchable -- 35 generations, approx. 1700 persons
- (Tenth to twentieth centuries; Swedish-language transcriptions and images)
- Map of the Kingdom of Sweden towards the end of the 18th century.
- (1797; zoomable map)
- Map of the kingdoms of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden around the beginning of the 18th century.
- (Circa 1700; zoomable map)
- One of the earliest maps of the Scandinavian peninsula.
- (1572; zoomable map)
- Treaty between Sweden and Russia.
- (September 17, 1809; French)
- Database has free access to facsimiles of numerous newspapers with transcriptions until 1864.
- Ability to search only free material.
- (1800-1864; Swedish facsimiles, transcriptions)
- Treaty ending war between Britain and Sweden.
- (August 17, 1812; English)
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