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Axel Oxenstierna's works and letters Search tips

First name Info

The form of the first names depends on the person's nationality.

Example: Johan Oxenstierna, Johann Faltz and John Ruthwen.

Surname Info

The last name of persons, names of institutions (such as the parliament and the King’s Council) and also names of cities.

Names have been modernized according to guidelines from (1) The Dictionary of Swedish National Biography, (2) The Swedish National Encyclopaedia, (3) current scientific literature, and (4) indexes in the National Archives.

The names of royals are given in the Swedish name form (e.g. Ludvig XIII), names of princes are given with the addition of the princely house or principality (e.g. Bernard of Sachsen-Weimar).

Title

Title of the sender or recipient is given if possible, even when it is not specified in the source.

Specification for title Info

Where possible, titles have been supplemented with information on e.g. county .

Date

Dates are written yyyy-mm-dd (e.g. 1642-09-15).

Searches can be made for a particular day (1642-09-15), month (1642-09) or year (1642).

All letters are registered on dates in accordance with the Old Style (the Julian Calendar). It is noted when the original had used any other calendar.

Place of issue

Type of document

Original/transcript Info

The text of the letters is based on the dispatched original. If this is missing, the editor has used a copy or draft. Textual variants from other versions are only noted if the editor has deemed them of importance to the language or interpretation of the text.

Language

Archival Institution

Print

All kinds of source publications have been noted, except AOSB. This information is presented in abbreviated form (usually with name of editor / mainword + year) and is linked to a list containing the full bibliographical data.

Reg. no Info

Each post in the database has a unique identity number.

Content or headline Info

Here it is possible to do full text search on words appearing in summaries of the content of letters or in headlines to documents.

Search in the text of the letters

Search tips

Simple search: Enter one or more keywords. To generate a hit all words must appear in the record.

Truncation: Use asterisk (*) to find words with a varying ending or beginning. Searching for rose* will find rosebud, rosebush, roseship, rosemary etc. Searching for *house will find greenhouse, dollhouse and steakhouse etc.

Exact phrases: Use quotation marks ('' '') when searching for exact phrases. E.g. a search for ''Swedish kings'' will generate hits where the words appear together and in that particular order.

Wildcard (character): Use question mark (?) when searching for spelling variations of a word. The question mark is used to replace any single character. E.g. a search for wom?n will find both woman and women.

Exclude a word: Use minus sign (-) to exclude a search word. E.g. a search for Uppsala – castle will find all records containing the word Uppsala but not the records which at the same time contain the word castle.

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Text editions
Letters from Jan Rutgers
Letters from Sir Jakob Spens
Letters from Carl Marinus
Letters from Johan Adler Salvius
A selection of letters from Axel Oxenstierna 1636–1654
Axel Oxenstierna and Queen Kristina

Text editions