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Digital collections

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Manuscripts, images, maps and rare prints

We are continually working on making our collections digitally available

Explore the special collections

We continually digitise manuscripts, images, maps, and rare prints from our collections and make them freely accessible online.

Below you can browse among a selection of categories and collections or browse among different subjects and scientific disciplines to the left. 

You can also search directly in our digital collections in Alvin

Everything we publish in the digital collections can be downloaded in high resolution and is completely free to use – in publications, exhibitions, or just for fun.

Read more about our work with digitisation and order digitisations of material from our collections

Subjects

Browse among different subjects and scientific disciplines

Collections and categories

Highlights

Rarities and curiosities from the library collections

The Jarring Collection

Manuscripts from Eastern Turkestan

Maps, ca 1500-1900

Examples from our rare maps collection

The Sjöbeck collection

Landscapes of southern Sweden, ca 1920-1960

Hand coloured

Beautiful prints from our rare books collection

Chest prints

Popular single sheet prints, ca 1750-1890

Victoria Benedictsson

The archive of one of the great Swedish authors of the 1880s

Witnessing genocide

Experiences of Nazi concentration camps

The Tingsten Collection

The collected works of Herbert Tingsten

The Bagge Collection

Photographs from Lund, ca 1890-1950

Drawings & watercolors

Examples from our image collections

The Papyrus Collection

The oldest texts in the Library's collections

The Tegnér Letters

Letters sent to the poet Esaias Tegnér (1782-1846)

Postcards from Lund

Images of the town, ca 1880-1940

Movie posters

Posters from the golden age of film

Chinese Watercolors

Porcelain production in the 18th century

Rare books

Printings from the rare books collection, ca 1500-1900

Press photos

The Hagblom-Foto Collection, ca 1950-2000

Albi amicorum

Autograph albums from the 16th to the 20th century

Medieval manuscripts

St. Laurentius Digital Library

The De la Gardie Archive

Historical documents from the 16th to the 19th century

New in digital collections

Monsters galore

Early modern teratology

Images of nature

The zoological illustrations of Magnus Körner (1808-1864)

Four centuries of portraiture

Engravings from the De la Gardie Archive

Shahnameh

A Persian luxury manuscript from the 17th century