That big book, Sweden should give back, no?
for friendship
The library owns Sweeden now.
As per tradition, c_s posted something with no backstory links.
So, which book are you referring to? Codex Argenteus? Codex Gigas? Laski’s Statute?
More questions: What was Sweden Army doing in Prague, besides checking out books, in 1648? That seems like a long trip. Perhaps they were returning other books, so might as well pick some up while they were there.
Ah: Thirty Years War. One final act before the treaty was signed.
And, what caused this war? Religion, it seems.
As per tradition of these threads, no links are included.
From Wikipedia (about Queen Christina of Sweden) -
Until 1649, when Christina was twenty-three, the Swedish royal art collection was unimpressive, with good tapestries but for paintings, little more than “about a hundred works by minor German, Flemish, and Swedish painters”.
But in May 1649, the fabulous loot from the occupation of Prague Castle the previous year arrived, with the pick of the collection amassed by the obsessive collector Rudolph II, Holy Roman Emperor (1552–1612), one of the most important in Europe. Rudolf’s bulk purchases had included the famous collection of Emperor Charles V’s leading minister Cardinal Granvelle (1517–1586), which he had forced Granvelle’s nephew and heir to sell to him. Granvelle had been the “greatest private collector of his time, the friend and patron of Titian and Leoni and many other artists”.