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National Library of Finland
Heikki A. Reenpää Library
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Analogue
The Heikki A. Reenpää Library is a donated collection received from Professor Heikki A. Reenpää in 2004.
Collection description
The Heikki A. Reenpää Library is a donated collection received from Professor Heikki A. Reenpää in 2004. The library consists of around 20,000 titles, mainly of old literature in Finnish and Swedish from the 17th and 18th centuries. The Reenpää Library complements other collections of the National Library and supplements it with various variants. The collection contains a large selection of, for example, Bibles and other ecclesiastical works, almanacs, acts and degrees as well as dissertations from the Royal Academy of Turku and foreign rarity books. The more recent section of the library includes more modern Finnish fiction and poetry.
Collection languages
Material type
Books
journals
Ephemera
Accrual status
Cumulative
Temporal coverage of the collection
Antiquity the Middle Ages beginning of the modern age modern age (turn of the 18th and 19th century to the 20th century) modern times (1900-)Spatial coverage of the collection
Asia Africa Australia South America Europe Eastern Europe Området i Mellanöstern Circumpolar areas Area of North America (incl. Canada and Alaska) Nordic countries Finland Central America RussiaMain collection
Special CollectionsParent collection
Private libraries stored as separate entitiesRestrictions of use
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Keywords
Cataloguing principles
Reenpää Academica
Reenpää Almanakat
Reenpää Arkkikirjallisuus
Reenpää Asetukset
Reenpää Diss. Extra patriam
Reenpää Diss. Turku
Reenpää Filosofia
Reenpää Hartauskirjallisuus
Reenpää Henkilökirjallisuus
Reenpää Historia
Reenpää Kaunokirjallisuus 1
Reenpää Kaunokirjallisuus I2
Reenpää Kielitiede
Reenpää Lehdet
Reenpää Luonnontieteet
Reenpää Matkakirjat
Reenpää Pipping
Reenpää Raamatut
Reenpää Sarjat
Reenpää Sortokausi
Reenpää Teologia
Catalogue information
The collection has been described in the reference database
More information about cataloguing
The collection has been described in the National Library Search.
Collection sizes
20 000
titles of publications
Signum
H Reenpää
Provenance
The collection was donated by Professor Heikki A. Reenpää (b. 1922), a long-standing Managing Director and board member of Otava publishing company, in 2004.
Collector
Professori Heikki A. Reenpää