The Res publica Schefferiana – the correspondence of Johannes Schefferus (1621-1679)

This dataset lists preliminary results of research on the correspondence of philologist Johannes Schefferus (1621-1679). It was created to accompany my doctoral dissertation «Early Modern Knowledge about the Sámi: A History of Johannes Schefferus’ Lapponia (1673) and its Adaptations» dealing with the first-ever monograph on the Sámi people of the Fennoscandian peninsula, and its adaptations published in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In the dissertation, I analyse the role correspondence played in the coming into existence and further development of the Lapponia project. The dataset is an extension of the register of Schefferus’ correspondence found in Eric Michael Fant’s (1754-1817) biography of Schefferus \"Minne öfver Joh. Schefferus\", published in Stockholm in 1782. It lists all letters found in six volumes (UUB G 260 and G 260 a-e) at the manuscript collection of Uppsala University Library, further letters scattered in other volumes and some copies. Parts of Schefferus’ correspondence has been published in print or listed elsewhere. This is noted in all known cases. The .pdf- and .xlsx-versions contain hyperlinks to the respective digitized versions or archival entries.

本数据集收录了语文学家约翰内斯·舍费留斯（Johannes Schefferus，1621-1679）书信往来研究的初步成果。本数据集专为配合本人的博士学位论文《近代早期萨米（Sámi）人研究知识：约翰内斯·舍费留斯的〈拉普尼亚（Lapponia）〉（1673）及其改编史》而创建，该论文聚焦芬诺斯堪的亚半岛萨米人的首部专题研究著作，以及17至18世纪问世的相关改编版本。在本论文中，笔者分析了书信往来在《拉普尼亚》项目的诞生与后续发展中所扮演的核心角色。本数据集是埃里克·迈克尔·凡特（Eric Michael Fant，1754-1817）于1782年在斯德哥尔摩出版的舍费留斯传记《关于约翰·舍费留斯的纪念》（Minne öfver Joh. Schefferus）中收录的舍费留斯书信目录的扩展版本。本数据集收录了乌普萨拉大学图书馆手稿馆藏中6卷本（编号UUB G 260及G 260 a-e）内的全部书信，同时涵盖散见于其他卷册及部分副本中的书信。此前已有部分舍费留斯的书信被正式刊印或在其他资料中被编目，所有此类已知案例均已在本数据集中注明。本数据集的.pdf和.xlsx格式文件均包含指向对应数字化版本或档案条目的超链接。