The Aboica Collection

In a great fire in 1827 in Turku, the Royal Academy and its library were destroyed. After that, in 1828, the university was transferred to Helsinki, and the almost completely destroyed collections of the library had to be rebuilt. Only about 800 titles, which had been on loan, survived the fire and were moved to Helsinki. Some of them were placed in the Fennica Collection (the National Collection). In 1947 the rest of the books were collected into a book historical collection, the Aboica Collection.

The Aboica Collection consists of 729 titles, 493 volumes.

A copy of the catalogue is located in the Special Reading Room.

To be used in the Special Reading Room in Fabiania

Catalogue

• The collection is catalogued in the HELKA database.
  
• The University's Librarian Fredrik Wilhelm Pipping (1783-1868) made a handwritten catalogue of the books, on which the Library's Director Jorma Vallinkoski (1915-1980) has made expanatory notes.

Literature

• Jörgensen, Arne, Universitetsbiblioteket i Helsingfors. - Helsinki 1930 (repr. 1980). - Helsingin yliopiston kirjaston julkaisuja; 44, s. 19-25.
• Nohrström, Holger, Några krigsbytesböcker från Åbo Akademi-biblioteks grundläggningstid i Helsingfors Universitetsbibliotek. - Miscellanea bibliographica. 1 (1925), s. 69-81.
• Rämä, Irja, Helsingin yliopiston kirjaston Aboica-kokoelma. - Helsingin yliopiston kirjaston tiedotuslehti 25 (1983), s. 217-221.

Information:
kk-erik(at)helsinki.fi
Sirkka Havu, tel: +358 9 191 22717