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Turner, Frank. "The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library." Tocqueville Review 27, no. 2 (January 2006): 587–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ttr.27.2.587.
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The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript library is the largest repository* of special collections in the Yale University library System. ITiose collections include a wide array of European books and manuscripts from the Middle Ages to the present, a major collection of Western Americana, and a vast collection of books and manuscripts relating to American literature. Scholars from all over the world wishing more information on the collections and fellowship program of the Beinecke should consult its website:
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Reside, Doug. "File Not Found: Rarity in an Age of Digital Plenty." RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage 15, no. 1 (March 1, 2014): 68–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rbm.15.1.416.
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In the first section of the submission guidelines for this esteemed journal, would-be authors are informed, “RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage uses a web-based, automated, submission system to track and review manuscripts. Manuscripts should be sent to the editor, […], through the web portal[…]” The multivalent uses of the word “manuscript” in this sentence reveal a good deal about the state of our field. This journal is dedicated to the study of manuscripts, and it is understood by most readers that the manuscripts being studied are of the “one-of-a-kind” variety (even rarer than the “rare . . .
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Voloshchenko, S. "ECCLESIASTIC TYPIKON FROM THE SCIENTIFIC LIBRARY OF KYIV UNIVERSITY: ATTRIBUTION OF MANUSCRIPT." Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. History, no. 139 (2018): 24–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/1728-2640.2018.139.04.
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The principles of scientific attribution of liturgical cyrillic manuscripts, which has been worked out by author, are examined. The thorough study of Jerusalem Ecclesiastic Typikon from the rare books and manuscripts department’s collection of Maksymovych Scientific Library of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv is conducted. The stages of manuscript attribution are analyzed, including the date identification and localization of its origins and use. The type and the title of the codex have been identificated by the analysis of book’s texts. The linguistic variant of Church Slavonic language, used for re-writing the copy, is revealed, which has helped to localize the place of creation. Detailed watermark analysis of paper, which the copy had been made of, has allowed to estimate date range of its production. The problematic ascertainment of the date of creation has been also supported by the analysis of the textual sources, studying of palaeographic peculiarities of cyrillic script book, the inner book’s decorative features. The problem of binding production date, its construction, materials and design, is formulated. The state of preservation of manuscript is analysed, which led the author to understanding the extent of book’s relevance for its readers. The history of manuscript restoration and its stages have been studied. The places of use and migration of the copy are revealed on the basis of provenance examination up till its arrival to Maksymovych Scientific Library’s rare books collection. Key words: Jerusalem Ecclesiastic Typikon, manuscript, Cyrillic manuscript, attribution, codicology, Maksymovych Scientific Library of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
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Hart, Dana. "Kate Theimer, ed. Innovative Practices for Archives and Special Collections: Educational Programs. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. 195p. ISBN 9781442249523. $55.00." RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage 16, no. 2 (September 1, 2015): 141–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rbm.16.2.449.
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RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage reviews books, reports, new periodicals, databases, websites, blogs, and other electronic resources, as well as exhibition, book, and auction catalogs pertaining directly and indirectly to the fields of rare book librarianship, manuscripts curatorship, archives management, and special collections administration. Publishers, librarians, and archivists are asked to send appropriate publications for review or notice to the Reviews Editor.Due to space limitations, it may not be possible for all books received to be reviewed in RBM. Books or publication announcements should be sent to the Reviews Editor: Amy Cooper Cary, Raynor . . .
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Cannon, Jean. "Kirsten Weld. Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2015. xvi, 335p. ISBN 978-0822356028. $26.95." RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage 17, no. 1 (March 1, 2016): 82–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rbm.17.1.462.
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RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage reviews books, reports, new periodicals, databases, websites, blogs, and other electronic resources, as well as exhibition, book, and auction catalogs pertaining directly and indirectly to the fields of rare book librarianship, manuscripts curatorship, archives management, and special collections administration. Publishers, librarians, and archivists are asked to send appropriate publications for review or notice to the Reviews Editor.Due to space limitations, it may not be possible for all books received to be reviewed in RBM. Books or publication announcements should be sent to the Reviews Editor: Amy Cooper Cary, Raynor . . .
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Toftgaard, Anders. "Landkort over en samling. Hvad katalogposterne kan fortælle om Otto Thotts håndskriftsamling – og om katalogisering." Fund og Forskning i Det Kongelige Biblioteks Samlinger 58 (March 9, 2019): 129. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/fof.v58i0.125301.
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Anders Toftgaard: Mapping a collection. What the catalogue records can tell us about Otto Thott’s manuscript collection and about manuscript cataloguing.
This article deals with the manuscript collection of Count Otto Thott (1703-1785) and with manuscript cataloguing. Otto Thott was the single greatest private book collector in the history of Denmark and of inestimable importance for the Royal Danish Library, since he bequeathed his collection of manuscripts (4154 catalogue numbers) and books printed before 1531 (6059 catalogue numbers) to the Royal Library. In the manuscript collection, the inclusion of his collection marks the division between the Old Royal Collection (GKS) and the New Royal Collection (NKS). Many of the treasures in the rare books collection come from his library, and his definition of paleotypes (books printed before 1531) has (in the 20th c.) determined the definition of the collection of post-incunabula. Otto Thott did not write owners’ marks or notes in his books and he left very little archival material concerning the ways in which he created his library. Regrettably, the literary correspondence mentioned in his will has not survived. The article analyses a data set consisting of all catalogue records (in MARC format) concerning manuscripts from Otto Thott’s manuscript collection. These catalogue records in the library system derive from the catalogue made by Rasmus Nyerup (excluding oriental manuscripts) and published in 1795. When, towards the end of the 19th centrury, the alphabetical and the systematical catalogues of the collection of western manuscripts were produced, the entries in Nyerup’s catalogue were copied by hand without being revised. After the IT revolution, when the catalogue records of the systematical catalogue were transferred to a digital database of records, these records were copied once again without revision. It is shown what kind of errors from the catalogue of 1795 were still present in the on line catalogue in 2019. The quantitative analysis shows that the bulk of the manuscripts in Thott’s manuscript collection are manuscripts in Danish and German from Thott’s own century. The subject headings with most entries are Theology, History, History of Denmark, Danish Biography and Literature. As to provenances there is information concerning the manuscript’s provenance before the inclusion in Otto Thoot’s library in 17 % of the catalogue records. The analysis shows that Otto Thott’s manuscript collection was a universal collection with no specific preferences. The conclusion argues that it is necessary to get information from the various printed catalogs of the manuscript collection into the digital library system and that parts of Thott’s manuscript collection deserve revisiting and recataloguing. The Royal Danish Library’s manuscript collection might explore alternatives to the MARC-format for manuscript cataloguing. In a wider context, it is argued that Otto Thott’s library should be considered a knot in a network, and that data from the many book auction catalogues should be extracted and used for mapping the destinies of specific books and manuscripts.
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Kumar, Suchetan, and Karnika Shah. "Conservation and Digital Access of Available Rare Collections of Central Himalaya Region: A Study of Kumaun University." Indian Journal of Information Sources and Services 8, no. 1 (May 5, 2018): 27–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.51983/ijiss.2018.8.1.507.
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The main objective of the study is to conserve and preserve manuscripts/rare books available at DSB Campus, Kumaun University, Nainital, Uttarakhand, India. Eventually, digitized them and upload in digital repository software at G.B. Pant Library. A survey method is applied and twenty four (24) questionnaires are distributed to the twenty four (24) departments of DSB Campus, Kumaun University. In the survey, researcher got the total 53 rare books and 24 manuscripts from Zoology, Physics, Forestry, Sanskrit, and Hindi Departments. The manuscripts/rare books are not available in remaining nineteen (19) departments of this campus. Preventive and curative work is being done only in twenty four (24) manuscripts of Sanskrit Department, due to the scarcity of funds. After that the images was captured through camera then deciphering the manuscripts through subject expert and making digital repository of these rare documents in Dspace software. The result revealed that Zoology Department contains 44 (23008 folios) rare books of general zoology, entomology, fish and fisheries, genetics, invertebrates and amphibiology. Physics Department contains 1 (470 folios) rare books of spectroscopy. Forestry Department contains 3 (1208 folios) rare books of silviculture. Hindi Department contains 3 (500 folios) rare books aalochanaye and kavitaye and Sanskrit Department contains 24 (297 folios) manuscripts. The conservation process enrich the rare documents and digitization makes them global accessible. The purpose of this study is same and we have tried to make these said documents accessible within the library premises and save the rich heritage culture of Central Himalayan Region of Uttarakhand, India.
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Ascher, James P. "Guest Editor’s Note." RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage 15, no. 1 (March 1, 2014): 13–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rbm.15.1.411.
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As guest editor, I am delighted to introduce this special issue of RBM—a project that came to me after organizing the 54th Annual Preconference of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, “O Rare! Performance in Special Collections.” Words cannot express my debt and gratitude to the entire rare book and manuscript community in helping find superb presenters for the conference who distilled their ideas into writing. I hope that these written traces on paper continue to bring new thought to bear on the ideas presented and illuminate important issues for future thinkers. Where De Rerum Natura reads “propterea quid . . .
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Lisyatnikova, Olga N. "Rare and Valuable Books in the Collection of Regional Central Library (example of the Nizhny Novgorod State Regional Universal Scientific Library named after V.I. Lenin)." Bibliotekovedenie [Russian Journal of Library Science], no. 4 (August 15, 2012): 52–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.25281/0869-608x-2012-0-4-52-59.
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There is analyzed the place of valuable and rare books within the library collections, using the example of the Nizhny Novgorod State Regional Library. There is described the experience in organization and management of library collections, the work of several structural subdivisions of the library with publications, having the features of book monument. Special attention is paid to the interaction of the main holders of the collection of valuable and rare publications - the Department of rare books and manuscripts and the main book depository.
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Mangilev, P. I., and E. A. Poletaeva. "Collection of Handwritten and Old Printed Books of the XVI–XX Centuries and Rare Editions of the Library Yekaterinburg Theological Seminary." Bibliosphere, no. 3 (June 29, 2022): 57–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.20913/1815-3186-2022-3-57-65.
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The article presents the results of studying the collection of rare books and manuscripts of the library of the Yekaterinburg Theological Seminary. The characteristics of the collection and the history of its formation are given. The collection was based on the book fund of the Sverdlovsk Diocesan Administration and books from private donations. The collection of handwritten books includes four copies of the XVI century: the Ostrog Bible and three editions of Andronik Timofeyev Ignorant – Apostle in 1597 and two Octoechos (2nd part) in 1594. There are more than forty editions of the XVII century in the fund: mainly of the Moscow Printing Yard and three “Lithuanian” ones – the “disgraced” teaching Gospel by Cyril Tranquillion, 1619; Synopsis by Innokenty Gizel, 1680; Oktoikh of the second half of the XVII century. The earliest manuscript is the Gospel of 1630-1660, compiled in Galicia, with numerous notes of the owner. The XVIII century is mainly represented by Old Believers’ liturgical and reading (“chetyi”) collections of mixed composition. Collections with canons, akathists, and liturgical charters predominate among the manuscripts of the XIX century. Orthodox written tradition of the XIX–XX centuries is represented by educational literature and musical scores. The result of the research will be the preparation of catalogues of handwritten books of the XVII–XX centuries and books of the old printing of the XVI–XVII centuries from the library collection.
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Slive, Daniel J. "INTERVIEW WITH BERNARD M. ROSENTHAL." RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage 4, no. 1 (March 1, 2003): 45–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rbm.4.1.216.
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Bernard M. Rosenthal is an antiquarian bookseller based in Berkeley, California. His specialties include continental manuscripts and early printed books, the history of scholarship, bibliography, and paleography. Rosenthal was born in Munich in 1920 to a family with many connections to the book trade. His mother was the daughter of Leo Olschki, a renowned Italian bookseller. His father, who specialized in medieval and illuminated manuscripts, was the son of Jacques Rosenthal, a highly regarded seller of rare books in Munich. Other members of his extended family also were involved in the commercial book world as dealers, printers, and publishers. After . . .
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Hende, Fanni. "Codex Fragments Detached from Incunabula in the Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books of the Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences." Fragmentology 4 (December 17, 2021): 115–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.24446/teor.
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This article presents the results of a study of 32 manuscript fragments detached from incunables in the Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books of the Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The incunables themselves were imported into Hungary between the end of the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Limane, Lilija. "STEPONS SEIĻS AND HIS ARCHIVES IN THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF LATVIA." Via Latgalica, no. 10 (November 30, 2017): 149. http://dx.doi.org/10.17770/latg2017.10.2775.
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Latgalian teacher, publicist and cultural history researcher Stepons Seiļs (1909–1979) devoted his whole lifetime to collect cultural facts about Latgale. He was working with a relentless dedication, and, despite the pressure from those in power, he remained loyal to the Latgalian language and supportive of the idea that Latgalian has to be preserved in print. S. Seiļs can be characterized as a man of deep and lasting interest in publishing of Latgalian books and a persistent and zealous collector of cultural heritage. In his home „Kļovi” in Makašāni parish he created an impressive library of Latgalian works with almost complete collection of books, sizable sets of major newspapers, old manuscripts and a large amount of manuscripts and other materials about cultural figures. The National Library of Latvia obtained the first part of archival materials belonging to S. Seiļs in 1974 from the public prosecutor’s office of the Latvian SSR. The Soviet police confiscated printed publications and manuscripts from the home of S. Seiļs „Kļovi” in Rēzekne district during the search and seizure operation of July 1–3, 1974 with the purpose to find anti-Soviet literature. After checking into Seiļs’ materials, the prosecutor’s office decided not to bring any charges against S. Seiļs. The library staff analysed the printed materials and scripts and reached an agreement with S. Seiļs to keep 54 units of manuscripts in its collection and in the Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts, where a personal archive (RXA96) of S. Seiļs would be formed. The library also made microfilms of his returned materials, partially compensating the owner for these writings. The personal archive includes materials on activities of the Central Society of Latgalian Teachers and other cultural organizations. At the same time, 16 copies of microfilms were made of the essays of S. Seiļs and other Latgalian author manuscripts. Taking the sociopolitical situation of the times into account, the library mostly kept periodical publications from the 1920’s and 1930’s that met all the criteria of special collection according to the instructions set by Main Administration for Literary and Publishing Affairs (Glavlit). The remaining publications and manuscripts, including diaries, letters and studies about personalities were taken back to „Kļovi” and returned to the owner. The most of S. Seiļs’ private library was purchased after his death from his heirs. The cultural heritage includes printed matter and an extensive archive of manuscripts. Printings include several of the so-called Latgalian „contrafactions” (books, which were printed during the prohibition of Latin script in Latgale and had counterfeit printing dates on them). These rare specimens were stored in the collection of the Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts. The rest of the books following the principles of collection management were included in the general book collection. Some 254 manuscripts were added to the personal archive of S. Seiļs. Manuscript archive was enriched with some outstanding printed masterpieces of the period of ban on printing, as well as creative materials of S. Seiļs and other authors, and a wide range of correspondence. Information about eminent people of Latgalian descent, put together in the „cases” became available to readers. It includes the information on every notable person of Latgalian descent or those connected to Latgalian culture in the 20th century. His collection can reasonably be regarded as the archive of Latgalian people. In 2000, the library received 13 folders with deposited materials from Pēteris Seiļs, the son of S. Seiļs. Currently, the personal archive of S. Seiļs holds 339 manuscripts. These materials provide a rich source of information for researchers and those, who are interested in Latgalian history.
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Sliusarenko, Kseniia. "Innovational Technology of Conservation of Manuscripts and Rare Books." Naukovì pracì Nacìonalʹnoï bìblìoteki Ukraïni ìmenì V Ì Vernadsʹkogo, no. 46 (August 9, 2017): 503–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.15407/np.46.503.
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Kisdi, Klára. "Egy tizenkét darabos PAZL Varjú Elemér hagyatékából." Magyar Könyvszemle 135, no. 3 (2019): 253–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.17167/mksz.2019.3.253-278.
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The author, a member of the HAS‒NSZL Res Libraria Hungariae Research Group, while working on the database of codex fragments, which is being prepared for the Manuscripts Collection of the National Széchényi Library, became aware of a dozen parchment leaves of different ages, content and size. These all had been marked with a mysterious inscription: “PAZL 1671”, an abbreviation for Placidus Abt zu Lambach, Placidus Hieber, Abbot of Lambach (1640‒1678). The library of the Benedictine Abbey in Lambach was enriched with books and manuscripts over the centuries. However, by the 20th century, the troubled historical circumstances and the financial difficulties of the Abbey had made it necessary for them to sell the majority of their books. A significant amount of these was acquired by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University, where they came to be studied by Robert G. Babcock and Lisa Fagin Davis and became the subject of two monographs. A dozen Lambach fragments were brought to Budapest at the end of the 19th century as items in Elemér Varjú’s 114-pieces large palaeographical collection. He had probably found the manuscripts in the Batthyaneum Library in Gyulafehérvár (today: Alba Iulia, Romania). Most codex leaves were used as binding material for the books of Abbot Placidus’ library probably in Lambach in the 17th century. This is proven by two fragments, which originate from the same codices as some pieces in the NSZL, and whose host books, in the binding of whichthey have been preserved, are known. One of them is preserved in Toronto, the other at Yale University. Both were printed in Munich in the 17th century. The second half of the paper consists of the description of the twelve manuscript fragments, most of which originate from liturgical books from a monastic milieu. Nevertheless, some folia from theological works and classical authors make the collection more varied.
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Starmer, Mary Ellen, Sara Hyder McGough, and Aimée Leverette. "RARE CONDITION: PRESERVATION ASSESSMENT FOR RARE BOOK COLLECTIONS." RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage 6, no. 2 (September 1, 2005): 91–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rbm.6.2.247.
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It is not uncommon for a university to house its special collections library in the “old” library building. The character of the architecture and the connection with the university’s past often fit with the mission of collecting and preserving rare books, manuscripts, and university archives. A beautiful old library can inspire both librarians and researchers. However, it also can be the downfall of the very collections we treasure. Many older libraries now housing rare and valuable special collections materials have out-of-date and inadequate environmental control systems, if they have any at all. The resulting environmental conditions, particularly wide fluctuations in . . .
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Vagapova, Firdaus G., and Lyudmila S. Timofeeva. "The role of A. Makhmudov and Sh. Tagirov in the revival of book art traditions in the culture of the Middle Volga Region Tatars." Historical Ethnology 5, no. 3 (November 27, 2020): 388–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.22378/he.2020-5-3.388-398.
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The article explores the period of reviving the art of calligraphy and handwritten book art in the Tatar culture, which falls on the end of the XIX century and is associated with the names of A. Makhmudov and Sh. Tagirov. The authors of the article presented the genesis and revealed the stages of calligraphy and hand-written book art formation in the culture of the Tatars. The article provides an art criticism analysis of the manuscript book art works included in the creative heritage of A. Makhmudov and Sh. Tagirov. A contrastive-comparative analysis led to a conclusion that the traditions of Iranian, Turkish and Dagestanian handwritten book art which were processed by Kazan calligraphers. That allowed them to develop local traditions of handwritten art. The study is based on the analysis of collections of manuscript monuments, including paperwork (khan labels) and books (of religious, scientific, literary and artistic content) from the collections of the Department of Manuscript and Rare Books of Kazan Federal University’s N.I. Lobachevsky Scientific Library, the Center for Written and Musical Heritage of G. Ibragimov Institute of the Language, Literature and Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences, the Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts of the Republic of Tatarstan National Library, the National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan, the National Archives of the Republic of Tatarstan, the Graphics Department of the Republic of Tatarstan State Museum of Fine Arts. The article is based on a comprehensive study of the material; to conduct the analysis, analytical methods of research have been applied. The priority is given to the classical comparative-historical method which includes synchronous and diachronous analysis. In addition, general scientific art and cultural studies methods and approaches were implemented: the genetic one, for instance, allows making a diachronous section and tracing the process of book art formation.
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May, James E. "SCRIBLERIANA TRANSFERRED, Manuscripts and Rare Books, 2018 to Early 2019." Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 52, no. 1 (2019): 119–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/scriblerian.52.1.0119.
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May, James E. "Scribleriana Transferred: Manuscripts and Rare Books, 2018 to Early 2019." Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 52, no. 1 (2019): 119–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/scb.2019.0024.
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Minicka, Mary. "Towards a conceptualization of the study of Africa’s indigenous manuscript heritage and tradition." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 45, no. 1 (February 19, 2018): 143–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2309-9070/tvl.v.45i1.4485.
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This paper share experiences of th South African Conservation Technical Team of the Timbuktu Rare Manuscripts Project in the conservation and preservation of manuscripts in Timbuktu. A manuscript is always more than just its textual information – it is a living historical entity and its study a complex web of interrelated factors: the origins, production (that is, materials, formats, script, typography, and illustration), content, use and role of books in culture, educated and society in general. The widespread availability of paper made it easier to produce these manuscripts as some of the important vehicles for transmitting of knowledge in Islamic society. Islamic written culture, particularly during the time of the European middle ages was by all accounts incomparably more brilliant than anything known in contemporary Europe. The time for studying the African manuscript tradition has never been more appropriate given the recent renewed calls for the need to reappraise African history and achievements. It must be acknowledged, however, that the study of African manuscript heritage will not be without difficulty.
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Kalina, Anna. "From the Experience the Scientific Library N.I. Lobachevsky of the Kazan Federal University and the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan Cooperation: Joint Projects With the Department of Old Russian Art." Russian Digital Libraries Journal 23, no. 5 (August 23, 2020): 914–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.26907/1562-5419-2020-23-5-914-922.
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The article describes the exhibitions prepared by the Department of Old Russian Art of the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan together with the Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books of the Scientific Library N.I. Lobachevsky of the Kazan Federal University in the period from 2013 to 2016. These projects reflect only a small part of the joint work of the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan with the Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books of the Scientific Library N.I. Lobachevsky, all of them became significant events in cultural life of the city and the republic.
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LIMANE, LILIJA. "SVARUS INDĖLIS Į LATVIJOS KNYGŲ LEIDYBOS TYRIMUS (anglų kalba)." Knygotyra 51 (January 1, 2015): 280–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/kn.v51i0.7905.
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Wall, Catharine E. "The Jorge Luis Borges Collection at the University of Texas at Austin." Latin American Research Review 36, no. 3 (2001): 154–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s002387910001921x.
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AbstractThis research note reports on a collection of manuscript and print materials relating to Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986). The collection was acquired in 1999 by the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. It features unpublished manuscripts in a variety of literary genres and an excellent representation of Borges's published works, including several rare books and periodicals from the 1920s, a period of increasing importance in Borges scholarship.
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Kasinec, Edward. "Serge Diaghilev’s Last Passion—The Book." Experiment 17, no. 1 (2011): 375–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/221173011x612003.
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Abstract This article is based on fresh archival and manuscript material found in the Library of Congress and the Harvard College Library. The author discusses the last two years in Diaghilev’s life and the beginnings of his obsessive collecting of Russian (and Rossica) rare books and manuscripts. More specifically the article treats the dealers and other sources of Diaghilev’s acquisitions, the nature of what he acquired, and the fate of his collections after his untimely passing in August, 1929.
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Rogatchevskaia, Ekaterina. "“A Beautiful, Tremendous Russian Book, and Other Things Too”." Canadian-American Slavic Studies 51, no. 2-3 (2017): 376–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22102396-05102009.
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The British Library holds one of 65 existing copies of the first dated book printed in Muscovy by Ivan Fedorov and Petr Mstislavets, the Apostol (Acts and Epistles) (1564) and one of two known copies of Ivan Fedorov’s Primer (L’viv, 1574), which is considered by many to be the first Cyrillic book printed in Ukraine. The recent history of these books is linked to the name of the legendary Russian art critic and impresario Serge Diaghilev (1872–1929). Both titles belonged to his private book collection. A story of Diaghilev’s collection became part of the history of the British Library when in 1975 it acquired, among other books and manuscripts, his copy of the famous 1564 Apostol. Diaghilev’s copy of the 1574 Primer resurfaced at Harvard University Library, but its detailed descriptions and facsimile editions helped the British Library curator Christine Thomas, then in charge of the Russian collections, to identify a second copy, which is now held at the British Library. This article tells the story of how over 70 titles from Diaghilev’s collection of rare Russian books and manuscripts were acquired by the British Library, examines possible reasons for Diaghilev’s passion for books, and highlights other themes relevant for the history of private and public book collecting.
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Kornicki, Peter. "Catalogue of Japanese manuscripts and rare books, written by Merete Pedersen." East Asian Publishing and Society 5, no. 2 (August 3, 2015): 225–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22106286-12341280.
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Crvenkovska, Emilija. "The Primary Slavic Complex of Liturgical Books of the Byzantine Rite (“Clement’s corpus”) and the Formation of the Macedonian Redaction of Church Slavonic." Slovene 5, no. 2 (2016): 198–230. http://dx.doi.org/10.31168/2305-6754.2016.5.2.6.
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The article elaborates on the basic linguistic features of the Macedonian redaction manuscripts. A survey of the characteristics is presented on different levels: orthographical, phonological, morphological, lexical, and the level of word formation. Linguistic features of these texts can contribute to their more precise localization, indicating that the manuscripts analyzed here are related to the wide zone of southern and western Macedonian dialects, a wider area in which the activities of the Ohrid Literary School took place. The lexicon of the manuscripts, especially the Greek loanwords present, leads to the conclusion that the place of their formation is a Slavic-Greek contact zone. Part of this paper is dedicated to the comparison of rare lexicon and productive word formation models present in a group of Church Slavonic manuscripts of Russian redaction. The comparative analysis of the lexicon and word formation models can help in establishing the corpus of books of the Byzantine rite that were created in the period of activity of Cyrillo-Methodian disciples, under the leadership of Clement of Ohrid. It is obvious that part of that corpus was the main liturgical book, the Gospel, and some previous works have verified that the Menaion was also translated in this literary center. Based on the analysis made in this work, it can be noted that the same rare lexicon and word formation models, in many cases verified in the hymnographic works of Clement of Ohrid, characterize the Apostle, Psalter with commentary, Triodion, Euchologium, and Prophetologion, leading to the conclusion that all these books were part of Clement’s corpus.
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Gillespie, Stuart. "William Popple's Horatian Satires: Further Texts from the Osborn Manuscript." Translation and Literature 31, no. 2 (July 2022): 179–229. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/tal.2022.0508.
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Samples of William Popple's unprinted Horatian imitations of the 1750s appeared in this journal in 2007 (Vol. 16 Part 2), their texts taken from two manuscript volumes at the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library. The best of Popple's remaining, and still unpublished, Satires of Horace are here edited and printed: Satires 1.4, 1.6, 1.9, 2.1, and 2.3. At the same time, fuller information now available on Popple, and on the social and professional circles to which these works make reference, allows some further account of the historical and biographical context of these Horatian imitations.
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Sheehan, Jennifer K. "Bettina Wagner and Marcia Reed, eds. Early Printed Books as Material Objects. Berlin: De Gruyter Saur, 2010. xii, 367p. ISBN 9783110253245. $150.00." RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage 13, no. 1 (March 1, 2012): 69–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rbm.13.1.372.
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This book consists of the proceedings from a preconference organized by the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), held in Munich 19–21 August 2009 as a satellite meeting to IFLA’s annual congress in Milan, Italy. In the Introduction, Wagner sets the stage for the work included in this collection of presented papers. Although multiple copies of early printed editions may survive to the present day, Wagner emphasizes the importance of early printed books as individual objects, each with unique characteristics that distinguish it from all other copies printed in the . . .
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Kelly, Mike. "INTRODUCTION." RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage 6, no. 1 (March 1, 2005): 10–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rbm.6.1.237.
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The 45th Annual Preconference of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries was titled “Ebb & Flow: The Migration of Collections to American Libraries.” From June 21–June 24, 2004, on the campus of Yale University, speakers addressed a variety of topics around this theme. Plenary speakers addressed the migration of books to North America during the colonial period, the development of university library collections in the nineteenth century, the epic collecting of J. Pierpont Morgan, and the post-World War II antiquarian book trade. Alice Prochaska, Yale University librarian, opened the conference with . . .
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Földesi, Ferenc. "DIGITIZING THE CORVINAS: A COOPERATIVE PROJECT OF THE NATIONAL SZÉCHENYI LIBRARY OF HUNGARY." RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage 6, no. 1 (March 1, 2005): 52–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rbm.6.1.242.
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In the beginning, the pen was the primary instrument available for making a copy of a book or document. Then, about a hundred and fifty years ago photography began to be used, and our learned predecessors could investigate facsimiles of codices from distant collections. Not too many decades ago, microfilm was invented, which enabled the mass archiving of written culture. In recent years, the technological innovation of digital imaging has yet again changed how we archive and make available copies of books and documents. Because they are often rare and fragile, many manuscripts and early printed books are not readily . . .
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Cordes, Ellen R. "A Response to Traister." RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage 7, no. 2 (September 1, 2006): 105–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rbm.7.2.264.
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In Daniel Traister's well-known article, “Is There a Future for Special Collections? And Should There Be? A Polemical Essay,”1 he states that his intention is “to propose that reconsideration of some of the essential assumptions our field operates with is overdue.” Some, he writes, will find his remarks “offensive or disagreeable”; others will say that he has nothing to complain about, that the changes he proposes have long been in practice. In brief, Traister argues that rare book librarians—in their zeal to preserve their rare books, manuscripts, and other special materials—have sacrificed access to collections and convenience to . . .
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Khadijah, Ute Lies, Yunus Winoto, and Rully Khairul Anwar. "Preservation of the Ancient Manuscripts of the Book “Waruga Jagat” and the Book “Babad Sumedang” at the Sumedang Pangeran Foundation Library." Socio Politica : Jurnal Ilmiah Jurusan Sosiologi 12, no. 2 (January 12, 2023): 53–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.15575/socio-politica.v12i2.21400.
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The Pangeran Sumedang Foundation Library is one of the libraries that stores several ancient manuscripts. Ancient manuscripts are a rare type of collection that not everyone, every region, or every library has. Therefore, the existence of a collection of ancient manuscripts needs to be maintained and maintained so that they can be used as a source of information for people who need it. This study aimed to determine preventive and curative ancient manuscript preservation policies and constraints in carrying out ancient manuscript preservation activities at the Pangeran Sumedang Foundation library. While this research tries to examine the preservation of ancient manuscripts, especially the ancient manuscripts of the Waruga Jagat book and the Sumedang chronicle book. The research approach used is a qualitative approach with a case study type. Based on the results of the research, it is known that the birth of an ancient manuscript preservation policy, especially the ancient manuscript of Kita Waruga Jagat and the Sumedang Chronicle book, is because these two ancient manuscripts have very important informational and historical values regarding the founding of the Sumedang Larang Kingdom. Meanwhile, on the other hand, the manuscript is hundreds of years old and its condition has started to deteriorate, so it is necessary to carry out preservation activities. This preservation activity is carried out using prevention and repair or through a transfer of media forms. Regarding the obstacles in this preservation activity, namely budgetary constraints, limited human resources and limited facilities that support ancient manuscript preservation activities.
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Reshetnikova, M. V. "I.G. Tyulin Scientific Library." MGIMO Review of International Relations, no. 5(38) (October 28, 2014): 273–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.24833/2071-8160-2014-5-38-273-277.
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Scientific Library MGIMO opened to readers in 1944 became the basis for her book fund of the Faculty of International Relations, Moscow State University on the basis of which was created by an independent institution - Institute of International Relations (MGIMO in the future). In 1954, when the composition of the MGIMO was included from the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies, the merger of the two libraries. This has considerably enriched the book collection, as the Institute of Oriental led his chronicle of the Lazarev School of Oriental Languages, founded in 1815 and features a wonderful book collection. In 1958, the merger with the Institute of Moscow State Institute of Foreign Trade funds replenished special economic literature. Thus was formed the basis of the library's collection of MGIMO, which develops in accordance with the curriculum and subjects research university. Pride Library -176 manuscripts and more than 21 thousands of rare and valuable editions of XIII -the beginning of XX century. Among them - the first and the lifetime editions of works by prominent scholars, writers and public figures (N.M. Karamzin, V.O. Kliuchevskoi, N. Kostomarov S.M. Solovyev, J. Bodin, Hobbes, A.F. Koni, Martens et al.), autographed books, N.M. Przewalski, A.N. Kuropatkin, A.E. Crimean and other famous people. The collection of rare books and manuscripts research library also includes: - life time edition of the French writer and politician Jean Bodin "Six Books of the Republic" (1577); - the second edition of the famous treatise of the English philosopher and writer Thomas Hobbes "On Citizenship" (1647); - english (1669) and german (1696) edition of the book Adam Oleary "Descriptions Travel to Muscovy and Persia through Muscovy and back".
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Ilyushechkina, T. N. "«Polonica» at the European books collection of the Siberian academic library." Bibliosphere, no. 2 (June 30, 2016): 73–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.20913/1815-3186-2016-2-73-79.
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The article reviews books of the Polish origin existing in the collection of the European old printed editions of the XV - early XX centuries of the Department of rare books and manuscripts of the State Public Scientific-Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The attention is paid to peculiar features of editions and provenances of revealed copies.
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Visser, Michelle. "Considerations in the Preparation of Library Exhibits Featuring Rare Books and Manuscripts." College & Undergraduate Libraries 11, no. 2 (December 21, 2004): 51–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j106v11n02_04.
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Ilyushechkina, T. N. "European books of the XVI century in A. M. Gorky Krasnoyarsk Central Municipal Library." Bibliosphere, no. 4 (December 30, 2017): 41–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.20913/1815-3186-2017-4-41-50.
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In accordance with the project «XII.187.1.3. Russian and West European Book of the XV-XIX centuries in the modern Siberia: preservation and study» SB RAS the author carried on a preliminary study of the collections of old-printed European books in two libraries of Krasnoyarsk: the State Universal Scientific Library of Krasnoyarsk Region and A. M. Gorky Central Municipal Library of Krasnoyarsk. The article shows that both libraries obtain European editions of the XVI- XVIII centuries. The author has made full scientific descriptions of the earliest books of XVI-XVII centuries, which original version after an appropriate revision will be published in the series «Materials to the united catalog of manuscripts, old printed books and rare books of Siberia and the Far East» published by SPSTL SB RAS. The article offers an overview of the most interesting specimens of old-printed European books found in Siberia.
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Salikh, Nadir Ramilevich. "Arabographic Manuscripts on Koranology in the History of Muslim Peoples of the Republik of Bashkortostan." Islamovedenie 13, no. 2 (June 30, 2022): 121–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.21779/2077-8155-2022-13-2-121-127.
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The Republic of Bashkortostan can be considered one of the few subjects of the Russian Federation where Arabographic manuscripts were brought to, copied and written in large numbers by local authors and scribes. At the moment, more than 5,000 copies of Arabographic sources of var-ious subjects and chronology are deposited in various institutions of the republic. This article is de-voted to the comprehension and analysis of the book manuscript heritage of the Muslim peoples of the Southern Urals in the form of Arabographic historical sources mostly related to religious scienc-es. The object of the research are Arabographic manuscripts thematically related to the sections of the Qur’anic sciences and deposited in two academic institutions of Ufa: 1) the Department of Man-uscripts and Rare Editions of Ahmet-Zaki Walidi National Library of the Republic of Bashkortostan (ORRI NB RB). 2) the Department of Rare Books at the Academic Library of the Ufa Federal Re-search Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ORC NB UFIC RAS). As a result of the research of these funds, the most widespread and significant works on Qur’anic studies that have played a certain role in the enlightenment and formation of religious consciousness among the Muslim peo-ples of the Republic of Bashkortostan have been identified. In general, research in this area allows to expand the source base on the history of Islam in Russia.
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Leveryeva, Galina F., and Afanasii R. Batorov. "Preservation of Documental Heritage of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) Peoples." Bibliotekovedenie [Russian Journal of Library Science], no. 3 (May 25, 2009): 34–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.25281/0869-608x-2009-0-3-34-39.
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Questions of creation and development of information portal “Memory of Yakutia” from the point of view of accumulation and preservation of documental heritage of Yakutia nations are considered. Problems of digitization of manuscripts, rare books, audiovisual documents are highlighted and trends of further development are traced.
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Jones, Brice C. "A Coptic Fragment of the Gospel of John withHermeneiai(P.CtYBR inv. 4641)." New Testament Studies 60, no. 2 (March 14, 2014): 202–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0028688513000374.
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This article discusses briefly a category of New Testament manuscripts with ‘hermeneiai’ before offering a critical edition of P.CtYBR inv. 4641, a Coptic codex leaf containing portions of the text of John that was recently discovered by the present author in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Unidentified until now, this codex leaf represents the first known example of ahermeneiamanuscript of John written solely in Coptic. As such, the Yale fragment has much significance for discussions about the ἑρμηνεία manuscripts, their origin, influences and functions.
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Leonov, Valerij P. "Library Cape town (Following the Colloquium of the International Association of Bibliophiles)." Bibliotekovedenie [Library and Information Science (Russia)], no. 3 (June 28, 2015): 89–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.25281/0869-608x-2015-0-3-89-94.
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International Association of Bibliophiles (IAB), established in 1961 in Paris, brings together librarians, publishers, collectors of rare books, conservators, conservation specialists, bookbinders, businessmen, lawyers, and diplomats. The Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences (BAN) is the Member of the IAB since 1994. BAN became the organizer of the Colloquium in St. Petersburg. Meetings of bibliophiles are held annually in different countries. The article presents the activities of the Colloquium of bibliophiles in Cape town (South Africa) in 2002. There are described the exhibitions of books, manuscripts and documents from the collections of the Library of Center of Books in Cape town, the National Library of South Africa, Library of the University of Cape town, University of Stellenbosch, library of the English and South African Politician Cecil John Rhodes and private collections. Exhibition materials reflect the history of African book culture.
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Wuryandari, Nurni W. "The Tradition Of Recording And Preserving Manuscripts In China." Bambuti 4, no. 2 (November 14, 2022): 29–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.53744/bambuti.v4i2.43.
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China can be called a country with a consistent attitude in recording various events. Conditions and figures that are considered essential. Besides having a strong tradition of taking notes, China also has a habit of trying to preserve records. One of the crucial figures who contributed to the preservation of the manuscript was the emperor Qian Long (1736-1796), one of the emperors during the Qing dynasty (1644-1911). He collected valuable and rare books into a series of publications called Siku Quanshu (四庫全書), which is often referred to as the Imperial Collection of Four. In addition to collecting various information about their own country, Siku Quanshu also gathers information about other countries, including the Archipelago.
This short paper aims to introduce the tradition of note-taking and the efforts to preserve manuscripts carried out in China, along with its benefits for researchers in China and foreign. Good Chinese language skills are the decisive key to penetrating the collection of knowledge stored in these precious Chinese manuscripts.
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Saunders, Richard. "Editor’s Note (this is to you)." RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage 21, no. 1 (May 29, 2020): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rbm.21.1.7.
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The journal approaches something of a milestone with this issue. The current iteration of ACRL’s professional journal of special collections librarianship practice began publication as Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarianship in 1986. When I was in library school a few years later, the only access points to content in the field was the library’s local card catalogue and the Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA) index. For those of you competent, working professionals young enough to be my children, research was a matter of looking through print volumes—print, mind you—of annual issue after annual issue for citations appearing under index terms, then pulling the bound volumes from the shelves on another floor. The current title RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage was adopted upon acquiring and moving to a digital platform in 2000. Since that time, all ACRL journal content has been available digitally, creating a backfile of material accessible for the asking. In 2014 ALA enacted a platform migration to OJS (Open Journal System) software. RBM content also moved to the OJS platform.
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Dănilă, Irina Zamfira. "An Account of the Works of Nektarios Protopsaltis and Nektarios Frimu in Manuscript no. 7 from the “Dumitru Staniloae” Ecumenical Library of the Metropolitan Church of Moldavia and Bukovina." Artes. Journal of Musicology 19, no. 1 (March 1, 2019): 150–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ajm-2019-0008.
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Abstract The “Dumitru Staniloae” Ecumenical Library of the Metropolitan Church of Moldavia and Bukovina (reffered to below as LMCMB) from Iasi has an invaluable collection of theological books and documents, consisting of more than 100,000 items. The library also has an important number of rare books – 35 of which are psaltic music manuscripts. Manuscript no. 7 from LMCMB is a psaltic Antologhion with Chrysantine notation, written in Romanian using the Cyrillic alphabet. The copyist and the place where it was copied are unknown, but it is possible that it was written at Mount Athos, between 1877 and 1882 (Apud Bucescu, 2009, p. 108). Manuscript no. 7 mainly contains chants for various services, translated and adapted by Nektarios Protopsaltes (1804-1899). Nektarios was one of the best known psalm singers and Romanian composers, founder of a psaltic music school, who was active at the Holy Mountain in the second half of the nineteenth century. Manuscript no. 7 also contains a rarer variant of the Doxastikon Lord, the fallen woman, attributed to another Moldavian composer – Nektarios Frimu (†1856). Like Nektarios Protopsaltis, he was also born in Husi (Moldavia, Romania) – but lived and worked in Iasi. For his achievements, he is honoured with the title of “hierarch of Tripoleos”. He authored the Anthology – Collection of psaltic chants for the Liturgy, (1840) and Collection of Psaltic Chants for Vespers and Matins (1846), one of the first works of its kind in Chrysantine notation in the Romanian language; these volumes were greatly valued during the second half of the nineteenth century. The present paper, which is part of the ampler project of cataloguing the entire collection of psaltic music manuscripts from LMCMB, focuses on the codicological presentation of the manuscript and its musical and liturgical content. The work will also present the authors, the Greek sources the chants were based on, also emphasizing the importance of this codex in the context of the LMCMB collection.
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Voigts, Linda Ehrsam. "A fragment of an Anglo-Saxon liturgical manuscript at the University of Missouri." Anglo-Saxon England 17 (December 1988): 83–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0263675100004038.
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A single leaf may be a valuable witness to an early manuscript that does not otherwise survive, even when it raises as many questions as it answers. Such is the case of the first fragment in a collection of some 217 leaves and fragments of medieval manuscripts owned by the University of Missouri and housed in the Rare Books Department of the Ellis Library on the Columbia, Missouri, campus. This collection, titled Fragmenta Manuscripta, derives largely from that assembled in the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century by John Bagford (d. 1716), an eccentric shoemaker-turned-bookseller. Bagford was, however, not responsible for the first two leaves in the collection. They were added to the collection by the trustees of Archbishop Tenison's School in preparation for sale on 3 June 1861. The first fragment and the second, an Insular leaf of not later than tenth-century date containing grammatical excerpts, had both been removed from the binding of another volume owned by the Tenison Library. That manuscript, now London, British Library, Add. 24193, a continental codex containing the poems of Venantius Fortunatus with replacement quires supplied in two tenth-century English Caroline minuscule hands, has attracted the attention of Anglo-Saxon scholarship, but the early Insular binding fragments removed from it have remained largely unknown.
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Nishanthi, M., and N. D. Wijayasundara. "Preservation and Conservation of Palm Leaf Manuscripts at the Library of University of Sri Jayewardenepura." Vidyodaya Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 07, no. 02 (July 13, 2022): 81–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.31357/fhss/vjhss.v07i02.06.
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Palm leaf manuscripts are one of the vital types of documents containing the indigenous knowledge of Sri Lanka. Treated and seasoned Palmyra leaf was widely used for writing before paper was utilized as writing material. Ancient people were not hesitant to write down their wealth of local knowledge in these palm leaf manuscripts. Today, there is a threat of extinction for the palm leaf manuscripts. The Library, University of Sri Jayewardenepura has launched a project on the Preservation and Conservation of Palm leaf manuscripts to address this issue. This gigantic task is important in preserving indigenous knowledge for future generations. The project began by collecting and physically conserving the palm leaf manuscripts scattered throughout Sri Lanka. In parallel to the project, we established the Preservation and Conservation unit at the library, intending to preserve rare books in addition to the palm leaf manuscripts. We applied established conservation methods according to the defect type found in manuscripts. After conservation, preservation techniques that suit the local environmental conditions were used. Finally, we digitized the complete set of manuscripts where researchers are allowed to use them according to the established policy.
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Cross, J. E. "Atto of Vercelli, De pressuris ecclesiasticis, Archbishop Wulfstan, and Wulfstan's “Commonplace Book”." Traditio 48 (1993): 237–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0362152900012927.
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Karl Jost first noted the use of a passage from Atto of Vercelli, De pressuris ecclesiasticis, in Archbishop Wulfstan's Latin composition De Christianitate. Dorothy Bethurum, however, in her essay on the group of manuscripts associated as representatives of Wulfstan's “Commonplace Book,” suggested that an extract in one of these, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 190, pp. 96–97, was an intermediary between the original work of Atto and Wulfstan's De Christianitate. Jost and Bethurum used the edition of Atto by d'Achery, reprinted in Migne. Now Joachim Bauer has re-edited Atto's tract and, finding early manuscripts rare, has read CCC 190 and identified more quotations from Atto in this English manuscript.
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Barysheva, Ekaterina A. "Programs for Preservation of the National Book Heritage in the Library Policy of the People’s Republic of China." Bibliotekovedenie [Russian Journal of Library Science] 69, no. 1 (March 11, 2020): 73–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.25281/0869-608x-2020-69-1-73-84.
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The purpose of the article is to summarize the information on the state of collections of ancient and rare books in the library institutions of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) by the beginning of the 21st century, to consider the content and the course of implementation of the state programs of the PRC in the field of registration, cataloguing, conservation, restoration, preservation and promotion of the national book heritage monuments. The author presents definitions of the terms “Ancient books” and “Rare books” used in China. All manuscript books and printed publications created before 1912 are considered Ancient books. Rare books include all books dated back to the period before 1795 and editions published in 1796—1912 that have outstanding historical, cultural, art and aesthetic value, as well as publishing products and documents from the period of the Republic of China (1912—1949). Chinese publications often use the term “Rare ancient books”, which refers to all manuscript books and printed publications before 1795. There are about 27 million 175 thousand copies of ancient books in the country’s libraries, including 2,5 million books created before 1795; and about 45 thousand ancient books have been preserved in a single copy.The article focuses on the programs developed with the participation of the National Library of China (NLC) and approved by the PRC Government in 2007—2018. The author reveals the main provisions of the “National Plan for Preservation of Ancient Books” (2007), as well as the powers and tasks of the National Centre for Conservation and Preservation of Ancient Chinese Books (NC), which has become the lead agency responsible for the implementation of the Plan. The paper considers the system of regional and local centres for the conservation and restoration of ancient and rare books, headed by the NC, that has developed in the PRC at present, shows the role of these centres in the field of identification, registration and cataloguing of book heritage monuments, in the creation and maintenance of a normative storage regime in old library buildings, ensuring the activities of restoration workshops, digitization of documents, preparation and online publication of full-text databases of ancient and rare books. The article emphasizes the importance of the National Museum of Classical Books, opened in July 2014 at the NLC, for promoting the national book heritage.The author notes that the priority task for the coming years is the construction of three new buildings of the National Book Depository in Beijing and Chéngdé (Hebei Province). The article concludes that over the past ten years, owing to the government support and targeted funding, China has managed to organize systematic activities in the field of conservation, preservation and promotion of the national book heritage.
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Laclau, Adeline. "A Scholar, Calligrapher, and Illuminator in Early Fourteenth-Century Cairo: The Illuminated Manuscripts of Ahmad al-Mutatabbib." Muqarnas Online 39, no. 1 (October 7, 2022): 37–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22118993-00391p04.
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Abstract Ahmad al-Mutatabbib is one of the few copyists from the Mamluk period to whom several preserved manuscripts can be linked, i.e., five illuminated Qurʾans and a copy of Avicenna’s al-Qānūn fī’l-ṭibb. Among these manuscripts, three are dated and localized and are among the rare illuminated manuscripts of the Mamluk period that mention the name of the city in which they were produced. However, no mention is made of this artist in Mamluk literature. Consequently, I propose to study these manuscripts through the analysis of their writing and illuminations, as well as the Qurʾanic vocalization system explained in three of his Qurʾans. The aim of this article is to shed new light on the place of Ahmad al-Mutatabbib’s works in the illuminated manuscript production of Cairo in the first half of the fourteenth century and to provide new information on the formation and the career of this prolific artist of the Mamluk arts of the book.
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Westwell, Arthur. "The Ordines Romani and the Carolingian Choreography of a Liturgical Route to Rome." Acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia 31 (December 31, 2019): 63–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.5617/acta.7800.
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This article examines a number of Carolingian liturgical manuscripts (Wolfenbuttel Herzog August Bibliothek Wissenbourg 91, Cologne Dombibliothek MS 138, Vienna Österreichische Nationalbibliothek cod.ser.n. 2762 and Paris Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal 227) each containing texts now known as the ordines romani. These texts are "stage directions" for the liturgy, distinguished by their reference to the practices of the church of Rome. While the ordines romani certainly give precious information about Roman liturgical practice, the Frankish contribution to shaping and displaying these texts inline with their own priorities and usages must be acknowledged too. For example, these manuscripts all combine ordines romani with texts about Roman history and topography. For these readers, the desired imitation of Roman liturgical practice was not about copying any particular text or practice by rote, but a deeper form of participation that involved the construction of an image of Rome across a whole manuscript. The given image of Rome responded to the institutional or personal needs animating the manuscript. These manuscripts compel us to imagine diverse practices of reading within and without liturgical performance.
Keywords: pontificals, topography, Ordines, manuscripts, Carolingians.
On cover:Monks singing the Office and decorated initial A[sperges me.]. Gradual Olivetan Master (Use of the Olivetan Benedictines), illuminated manuscript on parchment ca. 1430-1439. Italy, Monastero di Santa Maria di Baggio near Milan, Ca 1400-1775.Beinecke Ms1184: The olivetan Gradual. Gradual. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.