The Arcanaeum

The Arcanaeum or the Ysmir CollectivePocket Guide to the Empire, Third Edition: Skyrim serves as the library for the College of Winterhold in and is overseen by Urag gro-Shub, it houses over 100 books which can be read but not removed from the library.
==History==
The Arcanaeum contains documents that reportedly date back to the late second era.Dialogue with Savos Aren Urag tries to keep as much knowledge available to the mages as he can and takes his job very seriously.Dialogue with Urag gro-Shub The library was rescued from destruction in the east, and became the cornerstone of academic life at the College.
==Quests==
===Hitting the Books===
Speaking with Urag gro-Shub about any documents that might explain the connection between Saarthal and the Psijic Order, he confesses that the needed documents were recently stolen by an apprentice by the name of Orthorn, who took the books and ran off to Fellglow Keep to join up with a group of mages who left the College. Urag asks the Dragonborn to retrieve three such stolen books, Night of Tears, The Last King of the Ayleids and Fragment: On Artaeum.
===Shalidor's Insights===
If Urag Gro-Shub is asked to help locating any rare books, he will then ask for an assistance with locating Shalidor's Insights, rare manuscripts scattered across Skyrim.
===Elder Knowledge===
The Dragonborn needs to recover an Elder Scroll to travel back in time to Alduin's defeat atop the Throat of the World, so Urag gro-Shub is able to provide the Dragonborn with two texts on the Scrolls, Effects of the Elder Scrolls and Ruminations on the Elder Scrolls, one of which is authored by Septimus Signus. As a former member of the college, Urag knows his whereabouts and directs the Dragonborn to him.
===Ancient Falmer Tomes ===
Four ancient tomes written in the Falmer Language are scattered throughout the Forgotten Vale. They can be sold to Urag gro-Shub, and for each Unknown Book, he will award 1000 and a translated version of that book.
===Fetch Me That Book!===
After joining the College of Winterhold, Urag may send the Dragonborn to collect various rare books for some gold. Once enough are collected, he sends word to the Orc strongholds so that the Dragonborn can gain entry.
===Scroll Scouting===
If the Dragonborn has already sold an Elder Scroll to Urag gro-Shub, it must be bought back. He will sell it back for 4,000 , unless the Dragonborn is the Arch-Mage, in which case he can be persuaded to sell it for half of that. However, if the Dragonborn is not yet the Arch-Mage, Urag can still be persuaded to sell it back for 3,000 .
===Forgotten Names===
Four ornamental rings that are needed to complete the quest are stored in the Master Investigators Box. The box may be opened with the Investigator's Key, or picking the Master-level lock. Note that opening the box to take the rings is counted as stealing, so one needs to avoid Urag gro-Shub's detection. Either waiting after Urag retires to his room at night, or going there immediately after completing "The Eye of Magnus" quest, since Urag will not be present in the room too.
==Books==
===On the shelves, tables, and floor===
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*A Dance in Fire, Book I
*A Dance in Fire, Book III
*A Dance in Fire, Book IV
*A Dream of Sovngarde
*A Minor Maze
*A Gentleman's Guide to Whiterun (2)
*An Explorer's Guide to Skyrim (2)
*Ahzirr Traajijazeri
*Alduin is Real
*Argonian Account, Book 1
*Argonian Account, Book 3
*Beggar Prince
*Biography of Barenziah, v1
*Biography of Barenziah, v 2
*Biography of Barenziah, v 3
*Brief History of the Empire, v1 (2)
*Brief History of the Empire, v2
*Brief History of the Empire, v3
*Brief History of the Empire, v4
*Cats of Skyrim (2)
*Chance's Folly (2)
*Darkest Darkness
*Dragon Language: Myth no More (in a bookcase)
*Dwemer Inquiries Vol I
*Dwemer Inquiries Vol II
*Dwemer Inquiries Vol III
*Fall From Glory (3)
*Fall of the Snow Prince
*Galerion the Mystic
*Great Harbingers
*Herbane's Bestiary: Hagravens
*Horker Attacks
*Immortal Blood
*Killing - Before You're Killed
*Kolb & the Dragon
*Lost Legends
*Magic from the Sky
*Mysterious Akavir
*Mystery of Talara, Book I
*Myths of Sheogorath
*Nightingales: Fact or Fiction?
*Nords Arise! (2)
*Nords of Skyrim
*Ode To The Tundrastriders
*Of Fjori and Holgeir
*Olaf and the Dragon
*On the Great Collapse
*Palla, volume 1
*Pension of the Ancestor Moth
*Pirate King of the Abecean (2)
*Rising Threat, Vol. I
*Short History of Morrowind
*Song of the Askelde Men
*Songs of the Return, Vol 2
*Songs of the Return, Vol 19
*Spirit of Nirn
*Surviving a Horker Attack
*The Black Arrow, v1
*The Book of Daedra (2)
*The Book of the Dragonborn
*The Cake and the Diamond
*The City of Stone
*The Code of Malacath
*The Dragon War
*The Dunmer of Skyrim
*The Falmer: A Study
*The Great War
*The Holds of Skyrim (2)
*The Legend of Red Eagle (2) starts Quest: "The Legend of Red Eagle."
*The Madmen of the Reach
*The Oblivion Crisis
*The Ransom of Zarek
*The Rise and Fall of the Blades
*The Song of Pelinal, v5
*The Song of Pelinal, v6
*The Song of Pelinal, v7
*The Windhelm Letters
*The Wispmother
*The Wolf Queen, Book II
*The Wolf Queen, Book III
*The Wolf Queen, Book IV
*The Wolf Queen, Book V
*The Wolf Queen, Book VII
*The Woodcutter's Wife
*Troll Slaying
*Uncommon Taste
*Wabbajack
*Yellow Book of Riddles
*Yngol and the Sea-Ghosts
===For sale===
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Urag gro-Shub also sells books in the Arcanaeum, and the stock seems to change between different saves. His shop stock updates every 48 in-game hours.
*Sixteen Accords of Madness, Book VI
*Sixteen Accords of Madness, Book IX
*Sixteen Accords of Madness, Book XII
*2920, Evening Star, v12
*2920, First Seed, v3
*2920, Sun's Dusk, v11
*2920, Sun's Height, v7
*A Children's Anuad
*A Dance in Fire, Book I
*A Dance in Fire, Book III
*A Dance in Fire, Book IV
*A Dance in Fire, Book V
*A Dream of Sovngarde
*A Gentleman's Guide to Whiterun
*A Kiss, Sweet Mother
*A Minor Maze
*Aedra and Daedra
*Ahzirr Traajijazeri
*Alduin is Real
*Amongst the Draugr
*An Accounting of the Scrolls
*An Explorer's Guide to Skyrim
*Ancestors and the Dunmer
*Antecedents of Dwemer Law
*Arcana Restored
*The Argonian Account, Book I
*The Argonian Account, Book II
*The Argonian Account, Book III
*The Argonian Account, Book IV
*Azura and the Box
*Beggar Prince
*Biography of Barenziah, v1
*Biography of Barenziah, v2
*Biography of Barenziah, v3
*Boethiah's Glory
*Boethiah's Proving
*Brief History of the Empire, v1
*Brief History of the Empire, v2
*Brief History of the Empire, v3
*Brief History of the Empire, v4
*Brothers of Darkness
*Cats of Skyrim
*Chance's Folly
*Charwich-Koniinge Letters, v1
*Charwich-Koniinge, v2
*Charwich-Koniinge Letters, v3
*Charwich-Koniinge Letters, v4
*Chaurus Pie: A Recipe
*Children of the Sky
*Chimarvamidium
*Chronicles of Nchuleft
*Cleansing of the Fane
*Darkest Darkness
*Death of a Wanderer
*Dragon Language: Myth no More
*Dunmer of Skyrim
*Dwarves, v1
*Dwarves, v2
*Dwarves, v3
*Dwemer History and Culture
*Dwemer Inquiries Vol I
*Dwemer Inquiries Vol II
*Dwemer Inquiries Vol III
*Effects of the Elder Scrolls
*Fall from Glory
*Fall of the Snow Prince
*Feyfolken, Book I
*Feyfolken, Book II
*Feyfolken, Book III
*Final Lesson
*Five Songs of King Wulfharth
*Flight from the Thalmor
*Forge, Hammer and Anvil
*Fragment: On Artaeum
*Frontier, Conquest
*Galerion The Mystic
*Ghosts in the Storm
*Glories and Laments
*Gods and Worship
*Great Harbingers
*Hanging Gardens
*Harvesting Frostbite Spider Venom
*Herbane's Bestiary: Automatons
*Herbane's Bestiary: Hagravens
*Herbane's Bestiary: Ice Wraiths
*Horker Attacks
*Immortal Blood
*Imperial Report on Saarthal
*Invocation of Azura
*Killing - Before You're Killed
*Kolb and the Dragon
*Last King of the Ayleids
*Life of Uriel Septim VII
*Lost Legends
*Lycanthropic Legends of Skyrim
*Magic from the Sky
*Mixed Unit Tactics
*Mysterious Akavir
*Mystery of Talara, Book I
*Mystery of Talara, Book V
*Myths of Sheogorath
*N'Gasta! Kvata! Kvakis!
*Nerevar Moon and Star
*Nightingales: Fact or Fiction?
*Nords Arise!
*Nords of Skyrim
*Ode To The Tundrastriders
*Of Crossed Daggers
*Of Fjori and Holgeir
*Olaf and the Dragon
*On Oblivion
*On Stepping Lightly
*On the Great Collapse
*Opusculus Lamae Bal
*Palla, volume 1
*Palla, volume 2
*Pension of the Ancestor Moth
*Physicalities of Werewolves
*Pirate King of the Abecean
*Remanada
*Report: Disaster at Ionith
*Rising Threat, Vol. I
*Rising Threat, Vol. II
*Rising Threat, Vol. III
*Rising Threat, Vol. IV
*Scourge of the Gray Quarter
*Shezarr and the Divines
*Short History of Morrowind
*Skyrim's Rule
*Song of the Askelde Men
*Songs of Skyrim
*Songs of the Return, Vol 2
*Songs of the Return, Vol 7
*Songs of the Return, Vol 19
*Songs of the Return, Vol 24
*Songs of the Return, Vol 56
*Souls, Black and White
*Sovngarde, a Reexamination
*Spirit of Nirn
*Spirit of the Daedra
*Surviving a Horker Attack/Horker Attacks
*The "Madmen" of the Reach
*The Adabal-a
*The Alduin/Akatosh Dichotomy
*The Amulet of Kings
*The Apprentice's Assistant
*The Arcturian Heresy
*The Bear of Markarth
*The Black Arrow, v1
*The Book of Daedra
*The Book of the Dragonborn
*The Cabin in the Woods
*The Cake and the Diamond
*The City of Stone
*The Code of Malacath
*The Dowry
*The Dragon Break
*The Dragon War
*The Falmer: A Study
*The Firmament
*The Firsthold Revolt
*The Great War
*The Holds of Skyrim
*The Hope of the Redoran
*The Last King of the Ayleids
*The Legend of Red Eagle
*The Legendary Scourge
*The Lusty Argonian Maid, v1
*The Lusty Argonian Maid, v2
*The Madness of Pelagius
*The Monomyth
*The Night Mother's Truth
*The Oblivion Crisis
*The Old Ways
*The Pig Children
*The Posting of the Hunt
*The Ransom of Zarek
*The Real Barenziah, Book I
*The Real Barenziah, Book II
*The Real Barenziah, Book III
*The Real Barenziah, Book IV
*The Real Barenziah, Book V
*The Red Book of Riddles
*The Rise and Fall of the Blades
*The Ruins of Kemel-Ze
*The Seed
*The Song of Pelinal, Book I
*The Song of Pelinal, Book II
*The Song of Pelinal, Book III
*The Song of Pelinal, Book IV
*The Song of Pelinal, Book V
*The Song of Pelinal, Book VI
*The Song of Pelinal, Book VII
*The Song of Pelinal, Book VIII
*The Tale of Dro'Zira
*The Talos Mistake
*The Third Door
*The Third Era Timeline
*The True Nature of Orcs
*The Waters of Oblivion
*The Wild Elves
*The Windhelm Letters
*The Wispmother
*The Wolf Queen, Book I
*The Wolf Queen, Book II
*The Wolf Queen, Book III
*The Wolf Queen, Book V
*The Wolf Queen, Book VI
*The Wolf Queen, Book VII
*The Wolf Queen, Book VIII
*The Woodcutter's Wife
*There Be Dragons
*Thief of Virtue
*Treatise on Ayleidic Cities
*Trials of St. Alessia
*Troll Slaying
*Uncommon Taste
*Varieties of Daedra
*Vernaccus and Bourlor
*Wabbajack
*Walking the World, Vol XI
*War of the First Council
*Watcher of Stones
*Words of Clan Mother Ahnissi
*Wraith's Wedding Dowry
*Yellow Book of Riddles
*Yngol and the Sea-Ghosts
===Notable collections and texts===
*Elder Scroll (Dragon) – after selling it to Urag gro-Shub it can then be seen in a display case behind Urag's desk.
==Appearances==
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==References==
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