The Codex Argenteus, also known as the "Silver Bible", is a 6th-century manuscript that was brought to Sweden at the end of the Thirty Years' War in 1648, after the Battle of Prague, where it was taken as war booty. Isaac Vossius, a Dutch librarian of Queen Christina took it to his home town. In 1662, De la Gardie bought the codex and in 1669, he donated it to the university, after first having it bound in a chased silver binding.