Notices respecting Kew Booh. l6l 



Argentor. 14S6, fol.; " MIssale Lundense," which arch- 

 bishop Birger caused to be executed at Paris in 13l4j in fol. ; 

 the rubrics and the initial letters are in red, and the charac- 

 ter is Gothic. This missal is very rare, and it is asserted 

 that throughout all Sweden there is onlv a second copy of 

 it. There is also the work of count Erich Dalberg, entitled 

 Suecia Antigua ef Hodicrna, published in three volumes in 

 fol. about 1700, although the year is not mentioned. This 

 work, which contains accurate and well executed engravings 

 of the cities, public buildings, and other curious objects in 

 the kingdom, was executed at the expenses of Charles XI. 

 Jlnd XII. 



The library is disposed into spacious halls, adorned with 

 busts of professors of Lund, and several portraits of chancel- 

 lors of the university, some of which are extremely well 

 painted. 



The upper part of the academical building contains a ca- 

 binet of natural history and an observatory. The latter is placed 

 on a circular tower^ and at the top of it is a platform surround- 

 ed by an iron balustrade. This observatory is situated in 55° 

 42' 13" latitude, and 30'' b'l' o" longitude. It would be 

 desirable if the instruments were better and in greater num- 

 ber. From the top of this tower there is s very fine view ; 

 the eye takes in the whole city ; it is surrounded with fine 

 meadows and rich corn-fields j and in its interior it contains 

 a great number of gardens, so that the toiit ensemble resem- 

 bles a large and fine garden. When the sky is clear, the 

 towers of Copenhagen may be easily seen beyond the sea. 

 On the first floor there is a large and a small hall, in which 

 the academical sittings are held ; and where the public dis- 

 courses are pronounced, the theses disputed, and where the 

 professors deliver such of their lectures as are public and 

 gratuitous. Nigh this place is the hall in which the senate 

 of the academy assembles, which is here called the consistory, 

 and wliich is composed of all the professors and of a symlic. 

 There are here some good portraits, and among others that 

 of Charles XI f. This heroic prince lived at Lund in the 

 interval between his return from Pultowa by Stralsund in 

 1716, and his irruption into Norway in the summer of 1718. 

 L 2 Durin<r 



