Historical Collections
The USL’s holdings include manuscripts, music, autographs, portraits, war letters and seals as well as deeds, certificates and coats of arms.
Bequests
Most of the manuscripts currently held by the USL Bonn were originally bequests. The most important include those left by the Romance scholar and philologist Ernst Robert Curtius, the mathematician Felix Hausdorff and the philosopher Erich Rothacker.
Music
The music collection mainly comprises manuscripts and autographs by Clara and Robert Schumann as well as the music collections of the Silesian choirmaster Christian Benjamin Klein and Prince George of Prussia.
Manuscripts
The USL’s manuscripts include both Western and Oriental manuscripts. Besides medieval manuscript books, it also holds a collection of manuscript fragments.
Other collections
The USL Bonn also holds extensive collections of autographs, portraits, war letters, seals, deeds, certificates and coats of arms.