1 The Swedish Empire at its height, in 1658. Wikimedia Commons 190
2 Soldiers plundering a farm during the Thirty Years War, by Sebastiaen Vrancx. Wikimedia Commons 191
3 Map of Danzig (Gdańsk) area. Skokloster Castle 192
4 Map of the historical region Livonia. Wikimedia Commons 193
5 Parts of the Mitau spoils preserved in the Royal Armoury in Stockholm. Photo: Göran Schmidt 193
6 Copperplate depicting Gustavus Adolphus, with Jesuits in the background burning books. Photo: Uppsala University Library 194
7 Tre Kronor Castle burning in 1697. Wikimedia Commons 195
8 First page of Per Månsson Utter’s 1622 list of the documents from Mitau in the new cabinet. Photo: The National Archives 196
9 Per Månsson Utter’s ‘coat of arms book’, arranged to show the ancestry of various people of the Swedish nobility, including the Vasas. X4, UUB. Photo: Uppsala University Library 197
10 The Royal Castle Tre Kronor in Stockholm in the 1660s. Wikimedia Commons 197
11 Call number Schirren no. 6, or a parchment document from the early thirteenth century that became spoils in Mitau 1621. Photo: The National Archives 198
12 Map over Uppsala before the fire of 1702. The library had then been moved from building P, Consistorium academicum, to building O, ‘Gustavianska academien’. From Johan Benedict Busser, Utkast till beskrifning om Upsala (Bromberg: Uppsala, 1979 [1769]). Wikimedia Commons 199
13 Drawing of the building that housed the old Uppsala University Library, c.1700, U65, UUB. Photo: Uppsala University Library 200
14 The two first catalogues, K2 and K3. UUB. Photo: Uppsala University Library 201
15 A page from catalogue K5a, UUB, showing how the Lutheran theology is described in different ways – first as ‘our’ and then as ‘the latest’ or ‘Lutheran’. Photo: Uppsala University Library 202
16 Skokloster Castle around 1860, in Julius Axel Kiellman Göranson’s guide. Wikimedia Commons 203
17 Map of Denmark, seventeenth century. Wikimedia Commons 204
18 First page of the list recording Wrangel’s Rothkirch spoils, in the catalogue ‘Bibliotheca Rothkirchiana equestris’, E 8580, Skokloster collection, RA Marieberg. Photo: The National Archives 205
19 Interior of the library at Skokloster. Photo: Jens Mohr, Skokloster Castle 206
20 Jousting shield with connection to a Danish princely wedding. Photo: Skokloster Castle 207
21 Prayer book that has belonged to a Berete Knutsdatter, Wr. teol. 8:0 47:1–2, Skokloster Castle. Photo: Bengt Kylsberg, Skokloster Castle 208
22 Bible in Icelandic whose provenance notation has been cut out, Wr. teol. fol. 8, Skokloster Castle. Photo: Fredrik Andersson, Skokloster Castle 209