Manuscript Department

The holdings amount to approximately 1,000 shelving metres. The oldest records comprise papyri manuscripts and ca. 40 Greek and Latin medieval manuscripts.

The purchases made today are mostly aimed at acquiring archive material with reference to artists, authors and journalists from the Swedish West Coast , as well as researchers and lecturers at GU.
The archives of the national poets Nils Ferlin, Birger Sjöberg and Evert Taube are among the more prominent featured.

An important collection of archive material touching on trade during the18th century is the Swedish East-Indian Company's archive. This is to some extent available digitally.
The Manuscript Department is located at the Central Library