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The Waller Manuscript Collection is held by the Library of the University of Uppsala, Sweden. It contains 38,000 items, many of which concern the history of medicine and science, and it reflects and documents the networks and scientific every day work of famous and unknown scientists and scholars in all academic fields, from the middle ages to the 20th century.
All the 38,000 items have been both catalogued and digitized (with links in the records) and can be studied online.
Dr Erik Waller (1875-1955) was internationally known in his lifetime as one of the most prominent book collectors of modern times. He started his career as a collector already as a young man by collecting all kinds of handwritten and signed documents, so called autographs (letters, reports, treatises, lectures etc.) written by physicians, scientists and well known persons. He maintained this interest in autographs all his life and parallel to his book collecting he never ceased to add to his autograph collection.
To see the current number of records harvested in the CERL Portal from this OAI-harvested database, select the database and write 'manuscript:true' in any of the search boxes and press Search: the current number of records will be returned.
For more information, http://www.ub.uu.se/en/Collections/Manuscript-Collections/Autograph-Collections/Wallers-Manuscript-Collection/