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Rossiiskaia natsional'naia biblioteka (RNB)


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Archives of Russia (2000), pp. 721-52; Biblioteki: Putevoditel' (1996), pp. 26-33; Arkhivy Rossii (1997), pp. 553-57; GAF Spravochnik (1991), pp. 71-78; G&K Spravochnik (1983), pp. 137-59; PKG M&L (1972), pp. 305-27; Sup. 1 (1976), pp. 117-40; Myl'nikov (1970), pp. 15-17, 68-91; Begunov, Sprav.-ukaz. (1963), pp. 90-99; Muzykal'nyi Leningrad (1958), pp. 351-55; Biblioteki SPb (1993), pp. 7-10.


The most complete survey description and bibliography of finding aids for the Manuscript Division remains that in the G&K Spravochnik (1983), pp. 137–59. For a survey description of the rare book holdings, with bibliography of catalogues of incunabula and other rare books, see Fondy red. izdanii (1990), pp. 20–23. The library’s website provides a comprehensive bibliography of recent RNB publications, and surveys of holdings of the specialized divisions are in preparation.
 

Categories:
General RNB History
General RNB Series
General RNB Bibliography
Division of Manuscripts
      • New Accessions
      • Series of Collected Surveys, Studies, and Publications
      • Russian Archival Materials
      • West Europe Manuscripts
      • Oriental Manuscripts
      • Dom Plekhanova (Plekhanov House)
Division of Prints and Engravings

General RNB History

g-320. * Gosudarstvennaia publichnaia biblioteka im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina—Rossiiskaia natsional'naia biblioteka: 1986–1995. Edited by V.N. Zaitsev. St. Petersburg, 2002. 168 p. (Lib: MH).

g-321. Rossiiskaia natsional'naia biblioteka. 1795–1995. Edited by E.V. Barkhatova, V.N. Zaitsev, et al. St. Petersburg: “Liki Rossii”, 1995. 245 p. [RNB] (Lib: DLC; MH).

An elaborately illustrated popular history of the library with a good survey of the various collections. Also issued in English translation (g–321.1).

g-321.1. The National Library in Russia. Edited by E.V. Barkhatova, V.N. Zaitsev, et al. St. Petersburg: “Liki Rossii”, 1995. 245 p. [RNB] (Lib: DLC; MH).

An English translation of g–321.

g-323. Istoriia Gosudarstvennoi Ordena Trudovogo Krasnogo Znameni Publichnoi biblioteki im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina. Edited by I.S. Afanas'ev, V.M. Barashenkov, A.S. Myl'nikov, et al. Leningrad: Lenizdat, 1963. 435 p. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH) [IDC-R-10,841].

g-324. Imperatorskaia Publichnaia biblioteka za sto let: 1814–1914. Edited by D.F. Kobeko. St. Petersburg: Tip. V.F. Kirshbauma, 1914. 481 p. xxvi + 30 plates. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH) [IDC-R-4619].

g-325. Sotrudniki Rossiiskoi natsional'noi biblioteki—deiateli nauki i kul'tury: Biograficheskii slovar'. Edited by T.I. Grin, L.A. Shilov, et al. St. Petersburg: RNB, 1995–. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).
        Vol. 1: Imperatorskaia Publichnaia biblioteka, 1795–1917. 688 p.
        Vol. 2: Rossiiskaia publichnaia biblioteka—Gosudarstvennaia Publichnaia biblioteka v Leningrade, 1918–1930 gg. 2000. 704 p.
        Vol. 3: ——, 1931–1945 gg. 2003. 720 p.

An important biographical reference work covering the library staff, many of whose papers are held in the library.

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General RNB Series

g-327. Arkhivnoe nasledie Rossiiskoi natsional'noi biblioteki. St. Petersburg, 2008–. [RNB].
        Vol. 1: Shamrai, D.D. Izbrannye stat'i po bibliotechnomu delu. 2008. 112 p.
        Vol. 2: *Sofonov G.I. Gosudarstvennyi knizhnyi fond (1918–1938). Compiled by E.A. Gollerbakh, I.S. Zvereva. 2009.

g-328. Otchet Imperatorskoi Publichnoi biblioteki za 1850 g.– [—za 1913 g.]. St. Petersburg, 1851–1917. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH) [IDC-R-10,847].

Reports of the library issued from 1851 through 1917 (the final volume covers the year 1913) included many descriptions of archival fonds and manuscript collections. Many issues had supplemental volumes containing inventories of specific fonds and collections.

g-329. Sbornik Gosudarstvennoi Publichnoi biblioteki im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina. (Sbornik GPB). 3 vols. Leningrad, 1953–1955. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH) [IDC-R-10,848].

A short-lived general serial publication of the library, superseded by Trudy GPB (g–330).

g-330. Trudy Gosudarstvennoi Publichnoi biblioteki im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina. (Trudy GPB). 12 vols. Leningrad, 1957–1964. (nos. 1–12 [4–15]). (Lib: DLC; IU; MH) [IDC-R-10,849].

g-331. Gosudarstvennaia Publichnaia biblioteka im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina [v 1954 g.]. Leningrad, 1955–. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH) [IDC-R-10,850].
        ——v 1961. 1962. ——v 1962–1963. 1964. ——v 1964–1968. 1969.

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General RNB Bibliography

g-335. Bibliograficheskaia produktsiia Rossiiskoi natsional'noi biblioteki, 1992–2008 gg.: Annotirovannyi ukazatel'. Compiled by M.A. Mamontov. Edited by N.K. Lelikova. St. Petersburg: RNB, 2008.
Electronic edition: http://www.nlr.ru/res/epubl/bibpubl/

g-336. Izdaniia Gosudarstvennoi Publichnoi biblioteki im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina za 25 let (1957–1982 gg.). Compiled by I.E. Krylova. Edited by N.A. Efimova and L.A. Shilov. Leningrad: GPB, 1983. 406 p. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

Lists reference publications issued by various divisions of GPB, including those covering holdings in the Manuscript Division and archival materials in other parts of the library, continuing the coverage in g–336.1.

g-336.1. Izdaniia Rossiiskoi natsional'noi biblioteki (Gosudarstvennoi Publichnoi biblioteki im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina) za 1983–1994 gg.: Bibliograficheskii ukazatel'. Compiled by E.L. Kokorina and E.V. Tikhonova. Edited by G.V. Mikheeva. St. Petersburg: Izd-vo RNB, 1996. 228 p. [RNB] (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).
        Izdaniia Rossiiskoi natsional'noi biblioteki za 1995–2000 gg.: Bibliograficheskii ukazatel'. Compiled by M.K. Prozorova. Edited by G.V. Mikheeva. St. Petersburg: Izd-vo RNB, 2004. 138 p. [RNB] (Lib: DLC; MH).

A ten-year compendium of GPB/RNB publications, covering those for different divisions of the library. Of particular importance is the section for the Manuscript Fonds (pp. 17–28) which includes analytics for the series of collected articles about the division holdings (g–352).

g-336.2. Ivkov, Iu.P.; and Morachevskii, Nikolai Iakovlevich. “Obzor bibliograficheskikh izdanii Gosudarstvennoi Publichnoi biblioteki za 1917–1957 gg.” Trudy GPB 4 (7) (1957), pp. 177–274. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH) [IDC-R-10,840].

Lists reference publications issued by various divisions of GPB, including those covering holdings in the Manuscript Division and archival materials in other parts of the library. Updated for 1957–1994 imprints by g–336 and g–336.1.

g-337. Gosudarstvennaia Publichnaia biblioteka im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina: Bibliograficheskii ukazatel': Literatura o Publichnoi biblioteke, izdannaia do Velikoi Oktiabr'skoi sotsialisticheskoi revoliutsii. Compiled by L.M. Dvorkina, et al. Edited by T.I. Grin, L.A. Shilov, et al. Leningrad, 1989. 314 p. [GPB] (Lib: DLC; MH).

A retrospective compendium of books and articles relating to the library, covering those for different divisions of the library. A lengthy section covers surveys and catalogues of the manuscript holdings (pp. 150–95), while other sections cover graphic materials and other aspects of library history.

g-337.1. Gosudarstvennaia Publichnaia biblioteka im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina (1814–1986): Bibliograficheskii ukazatel': Literatura o Publichnoi biblioteke, izdannaia posle Velikoi Oktiabr'skoi sotsialisticheskoi revoliutsii. Compiled by D.G. Korolev, I.E. Krylova, O.V. Zvegintseva, et al. Edited by T.I. Grin, L.A. Shilov, et al. 2 vols. Leningrad, 1987–1988. 293 p. 187 p. [GPB] (Lib: DLC; MH).

A retrospective compendium of books and articles relating to the library published since 1917, continuing the prerevolutionary coverage in g–337. See the extensive literature covering the manuscript holdings (vol. 1, pp. 239–76, and vol. 2, pp. 72–77).

g-337.2. Rossiiskaia natsional'naia biblioteka (Gosudarstvennaia Publichnaia biblioteka im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina): Ukazatel' literatury o biblioteke za 1987–1994 gg. Compiled by V.D. Chursin and N.A. Khmelevskaia. Edited by L.A. Shilov. St. Petersburg: Izd-vo RNB, 1996. 255 p. [GPB] (Lib: DLC; MH).

Supplements the listing of publications relating to the library in g–337 and g–337.1. See especially the section covering manuscript holdings (pp. 121–49).

g-338. Katalogi i kartoteki Gosudarstvennoi Publichnoi biblioteki im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina: Annotirovannyi ukazatel'. Compiled by S.I. Demenok, O.N. Kulish, E.L. Viaz'menskaia, et al. Edited by O.N. Kulish and V.L. Pariiskii. Leningrad: GPB, 1987. 64 p. (Lib: IU).

A very helpful annotated guide to specialized catalogues in different divisions of the library. Since that publication, however, many more previous restricted catalogues have been opened to the public.

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Division of Manuscripts

g-343. Rukopisnye fondy Publichnoi biblioteki: Pechatnye katalogi, obzory, istoriko-metodicheskie materialy. Compiled by N.A. Zubkova. Edited by V.D. Chursin. 2d ed. Leningrad: GPB, 1990. 222 p. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

Updates the earlier 1971 edition, providing a comprehensive retrospective bibliography of publications by and about the division, including analysis of series and collective volumes.

g-343.1. Rukopisnye fondy Publichnoi biblioteki: Pechatnye katalogi i obzory. Compiled by N.A. Zubkova. Edited by A.S. Myl'nikov. Leningrad: GPB, 1971. 118 p. (Lib: IU; MH[mf]) [IDC-R-11,099].

Updated by the 1990 edition (g–343).

g-344. Stetskevich, Mirra Iakovlevna. “Spravochnye i metodicheskie posobiia Otdela rukopisei i redkikh knig Gosudarstvennoi Publichnoi biblioteki im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina (Annotirovannyi spisok).” Arkheograficheskii ezhegodnik za 1975 god (1976), pp. 324–35. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

An annotated list of catalogues, manuscript descriptions, surveys, and methodological literature published by the Manuscript Division starting in 1960, most of them issued in limited pressrun rotaprint editions (50–200 copies). Includes separate rubrics for history, literature, fine arts, history of the book, and information and methodological subjects.

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New Accessions

g-348. Kratkii otchet Rukopisnogo otdela za 1914–1938 gg. so vstupitel'nym istoricheskim ocherkom. Edited by V.G. Geiman and T.K. Ukhmylova. Leningrad: GPB, 1940. 302 p. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH) [IDC-R-10,842].
        Kratkii otchet o novykh postupleniiakh za 1939–1946 gg. L. 1951. 162 p. [IDC-R-10,843]
        ——za 1947–1949 gg. L. 1952. 131 p. [IDC-R-10,844]
        ——za 1950–1951 gg. L. 1953. 142 p. [IDC-R-10,845]
        Novye postupleniia v Otdel rukopisei (1952–1966): Kratkii otchet. Edited by R.B. Zarubova, A.S. Myl'nikov. M.: “Kniga,” 1968. 200 p. [IDC-R-10,846] (Lib: IU).
        “Kratkii otchet o novykh postupleniiakh v Otdel rukopisei za 1967–1968 gg.” In Gosudarstvennaia Publichnaia biblioteka im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina v 1964–1968 gg., pp. 154–208. [in IDC-R-10,850]
        Kratkii otchet o novykh postupleniiakh rukopisei v biblioteku (1969–1973). Compiled by A.N. Mikhaleva. L.: GPB, 1974. 152 p. [IDC-R-11,325]
        Novye postupleniia v Otdel rukopisei i redkikh knig GPB (1974–1978): Katalog. L. 1980. 220 p.
        Novye postupleniia . . . (1979–1983): Katalog. L. 1985. 220 p.
        Novye postupleniia . . . (1984–1988): Katalog. Compiled by L.S. Georgieva and P.A. Medvedev. L. 1991. 200 p.
        Novye postupleniia v Otdel rukopisei RNB . . . (1989–1993). Compiled by L.S. Georgieva and P.A. Medvedev. SPb.: RNB, 1998. 148 p. (Lib: MH)
        Novye postupleniia v Otdel rukopisei RNB . . . (1994–2000): Katalog. 2 pts. Compiled by L.S. Georgieva. Edited by L.S. Geiro et al. SPb.: RNB, 2004–2005. 279 p. 263 p. Electronic eds.: https://vivaldi.nlr.ru/bx000007610/view (pt.1), https://vivaldi.nlr.ru/bx000007611/view (pt.2).
        Novye postupleniia v Otdel rukopisei RNB . . . (2001–2005): Katalog. Pt. 1. Ramazanova N. V. Notirovannye rukopisnye knigi drevnerusskoi traditsii. SPb.: RNB, 2012. 331 p. Electronic ed.: https://vivaldi.nlr.ru/bx000007609/view.
        ——Pt. 3. Postupleniia v sektor drevnerusskikh fondov. Rukopisi nenotirovannye. Compiled by E.V. Krushel'nitskaia. Edited by Zh.L. Levshina, S.A Davydova. SPb. 2014. 508 p. Electronic ed.: https://vivaldi.nlr.ru/bx000007804/view.

The initial volume, although now considerably dated, with an extensive history of the MS Division to 1938 provides a relatively comprehensive survey of fonds acquired between 1917 and 1938. The first part—covering medieval Slavic manuscripts—briefly describes 8 major collections from prerevolutionary religious institutions and antiquarian societies, 13 private collections, and several other special collections. The second part—covering archival fonds—briefly describes archival materials acquired from 13 societies and organizations, 5 literary organizations, and 120 individuals. Other sections cover Greek, Western, and Oriental manuscripts. A complete index covers proper names of individuals and organizations. See also the survey article covering accessions during the years 1917–1941 in Trudy GPB 8(11) (1960): 267–87. Supplemental coverage of new accessions is provided in later reports as indicated.

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Series of Collected Surveys, Studies, and Publications

g-349. Istoriia v rukopisiakh i rukopisi v istorii. Sbornik nauchnykh trudov k 200-letiiu Otedela rukopisei Rossiiskoi natsional'noi biblioteki. Compiled by G.P. Enin. Edited by V.N. Zaitsev. St. Petersburg: RNB, 2006. 448 p. + ill. (Lib: DLC; MH).

The collection includes articles on various manuscript documents and collections held in the Division of Manuscripts, such as a description of oriental manuscripts from the collections of Petr Dubrovskii (O.V. Vasil'eva, F. Rishar. “Petr Dubrovskii i vostochnye rukopisi ego kollektsii,” pp. 8–25) and P.K. Frolov (O.V. Vasil'eva. “Vostochnye rukopisi sobraniia P.K. Frolova,” pp. 318–26) and others.

g-350. Rukopisnye pamiatniki. St. Petersburg: RNB, 1995/1996-. Some volumes have separate titles. Editors and compilers vary. [RNB] (Lib: DLC; MH).
        Vol. 1: Publikatsii i issledovaniia. Edited by L.I. Buchina, M.Iu. Liubimova, V.N. Zaitsev, and N.R. Bochkareva. 1996. 245 p.
        Vol. 2: Slovesnyi voevodskii sud: Issledovanie i istochniki. Compiled by G.P. Enin. 1995. 148 p.
        Vol. 3 (in 2 parts): Rukopisnoe nasledie Evgeniia Ivanovicha Zamiatina. Compiled by L.I. Buchina and M.Iu. Liubimova. 1997. 568 p. (pagination continuous).
        Vol. 4: Publikatsii i issledovaniia. Compiled by G.P. Enin. Edited by G.P. Enin, N.V. Ramazanova, and N.R. Bochkareva. 1997. 226 p.
        Vol. 5: Iz istorii muzykal'noi kul'tury. Compiled and edited by N.V. Ramazanova. 1999. 224 p.
        Vol. 6: A.I. Mikhaiilovskii-Danilevskii: Memuary 1814–1815. Compiled by A.I. Sapozhnikov. 2001. 400 p.
        Vol. 7: Spisok oprichnikov Ivana Groznogo. Compiled and preface by D.N. Al'shits. 2003. 152 p.
        Vol. 8: Findeizen N.F. Iz moikh vospominanii. Compiled and preface by M.L. Kosmovskaia. 2004. 352 p.
        Vol. 9: Kniga Polotskogo pokhoda 1563 g. (issledovanie i tekst). Compiled by G.P. Enin. 2004. 108 p.
        Vol. 10: Mirovaia muzykal'naia kul'tura v fondakh Otdela rukopisei Rossiiskoi natsional'noi biblioteki. 2006. 296 p.
        Vol. 11: Enin, G.P. Razdatochnye knigi nasledstva arkhiepiskopskogo prikaznogo V.G. Danilova-Domnina (Issledovanie i istochnik). 2009. 75 p.

A series devoted to surveys, studies, and publications of texts of RNB manuscript holdings. The initial issue includes a complete analysis of contents, i.e. a list of the authors and titles of articles contained in the previous series of volumes of collective articles issued by the division (g–351g–352).

g-351. Knigi. Arkhivy. Avtografy: Obzory, soobshcheniia, publikatsii. Edited by G.I. Kostygova, A.S. Myl'nikov, N.N. Rozov, T.P. Voronova and R.B. Zaborova. Moscow: “Kniga”, 1973. 284 p. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH) [IDC-R-11,100].

The first in an irregular series of volumes with collected articles providing surveys, studies, and publications of division holdings. The initial volume includes descriptions of major archival collections and some individual personal fonds, as well as specialized surveys of medieval Slavic and Oriental manuscripts. A summary of the contents of the entire series is provided in the cumulative bibliographies mentioned above (g–336, g–337, g–343) and in the first issue of Rukopisnye pamiatniki (g–350), pp. 225–32.

g-351.1. Problemy istochnikovedcheskogo izucheniia rukopisnykh i staropechatnykh fondov: Sbornik nauchnykh trudov. Edited by I.N. Kurbatova and M.A. Tarasov. 2 vols. Leningrad, 1979–1980. 200 p. 218 p. [GPB] (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

g-351.2. Iz istorii rukopisnykh i staropechatnykh sobranii: Sbornik nauchnykh trudov. Edited by L.L. Al'bina, I.N. Kurbatova and M.I. Stetskevich. Leningrad, 1979. 188 p. [GPB] (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

g-351.3. Istochniki po istorii otechestvennoi kul'tury v sobraniiakh i arkhivakh Otdela rukopisei i redkikh knig: Sbornik nauchnykh trudov. Edited by G.P. Enin. Leningrad, 1983. 173 p. [GPB] (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

g-351.4. Istochnikovedcheskoe izuchenie pamiatnikov pis'mennoi kul'tury: Sbornik nauchnykh trudov. Edited by N.A. Efimova and G.P. Enin. Leningrad, 1984. 179 p. [GPB] (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

g-351.5. Issledovanie pamiatnikov pis'mennoi kul'tury v sobraniiakh i arkhivakh Otdela rukopisei i redkikh knig: Sbornik nauchnykh trudov. Edited by N.A. Efimova and G.P. Enin. 3 vols. Leningrad, 1985, 1987, 1988. 154 p. 159 p. 218 p. [GPB] (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

g-351.6. Problemy istochnikovedcheskogo izucheniia istorii russkoi i sovetskoi literatury: Sbornik nauchnykh statei. Edited by V.N. Sazhin. Leningrad, 1989. 203 p. [GPB] (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

g-351.7. Istochnikovedcheskoe izuchenie pamiatnikov pis'mennoi kul'tury: Sbornik nauchnykh trudov. Edited by L.I. Buchina, N.A. Efimova, G.P. Enin and A.K. Gorfunkel'. Leningrad, 1990. 183 p. [GPB] (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

g-351.8. Istochnikovedcheskoe izuchenie pamiatnikov pis'mennoi kul'tury v sobraniiakh i arkhivakh GPB. Istoriia Rossii XIX–XX vekov: Sbornik nauchnykh trudov. Edited by V.N. Sazhin. Leningrad, 1991. 216 p. [GPB] (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

g-351.9. Istochnikovedcheskoe izuchenie pamiatnikov pis'mennoi kul'tury. Poetika drevnerusskogo pevcheskogo iskusstva: Sbornik nauchnykh trudov. Edited by N.A. Efimova, A.N. Kruchinina and N.V. Ramazanova. St. Petersburg, 1992. 217 p. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

g-351.10. Istochnikovedcheskoe izuchenie pamiatnikov pis'mennoi kul'tury: Sbornik nauchnykh trudov. Compiled by L.I. Buchina and M.I. Liubimova. Edited by N.A. Efimova and I.G. Kravtsova. St. Petersburg, 1994. 145 p. [RNB] (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

The last in a series of 14 volumes with surveys, publications, and commentaries based on materials in the division (g–351g–351.9). The tables of contents of all volumes appear in Rukopisnye pamiatniki, vol. 1 (g–350).

g-352. Kollektsii. Knigi. Avtografy: Sbornik nauchnykh trudov. Edited by T.A. Afanas'eva, L.L. Al'bina and A.K. Gorfunkel'. 2 vols. Leningrad: GPB, 1989–1991. 130 p. 180 p. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

Different articles describe a number of private library collections, both with dedicatory autographs, and related materials, although predominantly devoted to printed materials.

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Russian Archival Materials
 
The description of Russian archival fonds of 18th–21th cc. available electronically on the website of the Division of Manuscripts: http://nlr.ru/manuscripts/RA1385/sekt....
 

g-354. Putevoditel' po arkhivnym sobraniiam Otdela rukopisei Rossiiskoi natsional'noi biblioteki. Compiled by L.I. Buchina and N.A. Zubkova. Edited by L.S. Geiro. St. Petersburg: RNB, 2000. 176 p. (Lib: DLC; MH).

Contains the description of archival materials (letters, diaries, autographs, photographic materials, art and publicistic texts, musical notations) of state and public figures, writers, scientists, composers and artists, holding in the Division of Manuscripts.

g-355. Annotirovannyi ukazatel' rukopisnykh fondov GPB im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina: Fondy russkikh deiatelei XVIII–XX vv. Compiled by R.B. Zaborova, et al. Edited by V.I. Afanas'ev. 4 vols. Leningrad: GPB, 1981–1985. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).
        Pt. 1: Abaza–Viazemskii. 1981.
        Pt. 2: Gabaev–Kiui. 1982.
        Pt. 3: Lavrov–Rybakov. 1983.
        Pt. 4: Savvaitov–Iastrebtsev. 1985.
        Reprint ed.: New York: Norman Ross Publishers, 1994.

A basic guide with essential annotations of approximately 1,000 fonds of personal papers and other collections of archival materials acquired by the library through 1975, representing individuals active in Russian political, social, scientific, and cultural life from the eighteenth through twentieth centuries. Presentation is organized alphabetically by name of the creator of the fond, with basic data about its extent, content, and published descriptions. Unfortunately, the 1994 reprint is a facsimile of the original with no updated coverage.

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West Europe Manuscripts
 
The description of Western manuscript fonds available electronically on the website of the Division of Manuscripts: http://nlr.ru/manuscripts/RA1382/zapa....
 

g-360. Zapadnoevropeiskaia kul'tura v rukopisiakh i knigakh Rossiiskoi natsional'noi biblioteki. Edited by L.I. Kiseleva, et al. St. Petersburg: Izd-vo “Dmitrii Bulanin”, 2001. 314 p. + photos. [RNB; SPbF IRI RAN] (Lib: DLC).

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Oriental Manuscripts
 
The description of Oriental manuscript fonds available electronically on the website of the Division of Manuscripts: http://nlr.ru/manuscripts/RA1384/vost....
 

g-363. Lebedev, Viktor Vladimirovich; and Vasil'eva, Ol'ga Valentinovna. “Vostochnye rukopisnye fondy Gosudarstvennoi Publichnoi biblioteki im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina.” In Materialy Vsesoiuznogo rabochego soveshchaniia po problemam vostochnoi arkheografii (Leningrad, 1–4 marta 1988 g.)/Archeographia Orientalis, pp. 93–119. Moscow, 1990. (Lib: CU; PU).

The most recent general survey of the Oriental holdings in the division, listing 45 different collections (numbered fonds) with brief data including published descriptive literature about each.

g-363.1. Lebedev, Viktor Vladimirovich; and Vasil'eva, Ol'ga Valentinovna. “Iz istorii formirovaniia vostochnykh rukopisnykh fondov GPB. Prilozhenie: Alfavitnyi spisok kollektsii, lits i uchrezhdenii, ot kotorykh postupili vostochnye rukopisi, ksilografy i risunki v Publichnuiu biblioteku.” Vostochnyi sbornik 5 (1993), pp. 10–31. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH) [IDC-R-11,101(v. 1-3)].

Supplements the general description (g–363), with emphasis on the formation of the Oriental holdings, includes a list of collections and references to major published descriptions.

g-364. Vasil'eva, Ol'ga Valentinovna. “Oriental Manuscripts in the National Library of Russia.” Manuscripta Orientalia 2 (1996), no. 2, pp. 36–43. (Lib: MH).

A brief general description with emphasis on the historical formation of the Oriental holdings, with references to major published descriptions.

g-365. Demidova, M.I.; and Kostygova, G.I. “Fondy rukopisei i pechatnykh izdanii na iazykakh narodov Vostoka v Gosudarstvennoi Publichnoi biblioteke im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina.” In Vostokovednye fondy krupneishikh bibliotek Sovetskogo Soiuza: Stat'i i soobshcheniia, pp. 156–71. Moscow: Izd-vo vostochnoi literatury, 1963. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH) [IDC-in R-10,664].

A survey of the holdings of Oriental printed books and manuscripts. The manuscript coverage (pp. 163–71) notes different language groups with a starting bibliography of published descriptions.

g-366. Dorn, Boris Andreevich. Catalogue des manuscripts et xylographes orientaux de la Bibliothèque Impériale publique de St. Pétersbourg. St. Petersburg: Imprimérie de l'Académie Impériale des sciences, 1852. 719 p. (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-R-10,875].
        Reprint ed.: Munich: K.G. Saur, 1978.

This monumental catalogue has never been superseded by a more comprehensive, up-to-date version, although it describes, to be sure, only the earliest accessions of the Oriental holdings. Unfortunately, the 1978 reprint adds neither introductory explanation nor updated coverage. See also the later Dorn catalogue (g–367) covering the Nikolai Khanykov collection of Arabic, Persian, and Turkic manuscripts acquired by the library in 1864.

g-367. Dorn, Boris Andreevich. Die Sammlung von morgenländischen Handschriften, welche die Kaiserliche Öffentliche Bibliothek zu St. Petersburg im Jahre 1864 von Hrn. v. Chanykov erworben hat. St. Petersburg: Buchdrückerei der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1865. 93 p. Nachträge. 1865. 43 p. [IDC-R-10,884].
        Serial ed.: in Bulletin de l’Académie impériale des sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg 8 (1865): cols. 245–309; 9 (1866): cols. 202–31. [IDC-in R-5821].

Describes the Nikolai Khanykov (Chanykov) (1819–1878) collection of Arabic, Persian, and Turkic manuscripts acquired by the library in 1864. Supplements Dorn's earlier coverage of Oriental manuscripts in the library (g–366).

g-368. Vostochnyi sbornik. Leningrad, 1926–. Irregular. 6 vols. through 2003. [GPB/RNB] (Lib: DLC; IU; MH) [IDC-R-11,101(v. 1-3)].
Vol. 1: 1926; vol. 2: 1957; vol. 3: 1972; vol. 4: 1990; vol. 5: 1993. 246 p.; vol. 6: 2003. 348 p.

The series contains many surveys of manuscripts in different Oriental languages and historical data about the formation of collections. The fourth volume (1990) lists the table of contents of earlier issues.

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Dom Plekhanova (Plekhanov House)

g-370. Kurbatova, I.N. “Materialy arkhiva G.V. Plekhanova.” Voprosy filosofii, 1964, no. 2, pp. 138–44. [IDC-R-10,908].

Surveys the manuscript holdings of the special “Plekhanov House” collection, affiliated with the Manuscript Division, which includes the library and most of the personal papers of the noted early Russian Marxist.

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Division of Prints and Engravings

g-373. Putevoditel' po fondam Otdela estampov. Compiled by A.V. Chistiakova. Leningrad: GPB, 1961. 112 p. [Minkul't RSFSR; GPB].

A new edition is promised, but a summary version will probably first appear at the RNB website.

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Finding Aids —  Specialized:

No attempt has been made here to list all of the specialized finding aids for the RNB Manuscript Division, particularly since most of them are listed in the 1990 GPB bibliography (g–343), the general RNB bibliographies (g–336g–337.2), and electronic version of RNB bibliography (g–335).
        For notes on samizdat and pre-1991 unofficial press holdings see Paskalova, M.A.; Solov'eva, S.A.; and Strukova, E.N. Samizdat i novaia politicheskaia pressa: (po materialam kollektsii Moskvy i Sankt-Peterburga) (1993), pp. 32–33. For lists of Jewish-related fonds, see Jewish Doc. (1996), pp. 50–51; and Dok. ist. evreev (1994), pp. 89–90.
 

Categories:
Division of Manuscripts—Early Charters
Division of Manuscripts—Medieval Slavonic Manuscripts
      • Parchment Manuscripts
      • Collection of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy
      • Collection of the St. Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod
      • Collection from the Kirillo-Belozerskii Monastery
      • Collection from the Solovetskii Monastery
      • Collection of the Society of Friends of Early Literature
      • Collection from the Archeological Society
      • Alphabet Readers
      • Bogdanov Collection
      • Buslaev Collection
      • Pogodin Collection
      • Pomialovskii Collection
      • Sakharov Collection
      • Savvaitov Collection
      • F.A. Tolstoi Collection
      • Titov Collection
      • Porfirii Uspenskii Collection
      • Viazemskii Collection
      • Hermitage Collection
Division of Manuscripts—Russian Archival Materials
      • Modern Russian History
      • Microfiche Collections
      • Autograph Collections
      • Theater and Music Manuscripts
      • Art and Architectural Manuscripts
      • Personal Papers
Division of Manuscripts—Greek Manuscripts
Division of Manuscripts—Western European Manuscripts
      • Collection of Incunabula
      • Latin Manuscripts
      • French Manuscripts and Archival Materials
      • German Manuscripts
      • Italian Manuscripts and Archival Materials
      • Manuscripts from the Netherlands
      • Scandinavian Documents
Division of Manuscripts—Eastern European Manuscripts
      • Manuscripts from Poland
      • Czech Manuscripts
      • Bolgarian and other South Slavic Manuscripts
      • Manuscripts from Ukrainian Lands
Division of Manuscripts—Oriental Manuscripts
      • Arabic Manuscripts
      • Armenian Manuscripts
      • Chinese and Manchu Manuscripts
      • Coptic Manuscripts
      • Egyptian Papyri
      • Hebrew and Related Manuscripts
      • Indian Manuscripts
      • Kurdish Manuscripts
      • Mongolian Manuscripts
      • Persian and Tadzhik Manuscripts
      • Syriac Manuscripts
      • Turkic Manuscripts
Rare Books Sector
Division of Prints and Engravings
RNB Archive
Division of Music Scores and Sound Recordings
Fond of Newspapers

Division of Manuscripts—Early Charters
 
The description of fonds of Early Russian Charters available electronically on the website of the Division of Manuscripts: http://www.nlr.ru/fonds/manuscripts/a....
 

g-375. Katalog drevnerusskikh gramot, khraniashchikhsia v Otdele rukopisei Gosudarstvennoi Publichnoi biblioteki im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina v Leningrade. Compiled by A.I. Andreev, V.G. Geiman, E.E. Granstrem, et al. 11 vols. Petrograd: GPB, 1923–1991. Compilers and editors vary. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH) [IDC-R-10,854 (pts. 1–5)].
        2d ed. (vols. 1 and 2): ——1269–1612 gg. Compiled by G.P. Enin. Edited by V.I. Afanas'ev. SPb. 1992. 261 p. (Lib: MH).

A detailed catalogue of early Russian charters in the Manuscript Division special collection (OSAG—fond 532), published serially in 11 parts, some as separate rotaprint imprints, others in serial publications of the library. The complete series (with marginal corrections) can be consulted in the MS Division reading room. The second edition of volumes 1 and 2 contains corrections and additions.

g-376. Pskovskie akty sobraniia A.F. Bychkova, 1623–1698: Katalog. Compiled by G.P. Enin. St. Petersburg: RNB, 1997. 216 p.

A scholarly catalogue of 563 seventeenth-century charters and related documents from the archives of administrative agencies, namely the prikaznaia izba and palata in the land of Pskov. These are now held as part of the collection of the late nineteenth-century Public Library director, Afanasii Fedorovich Bychkov (fond 120, opis' 2). Includes indexes of personal and geographic names.

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Division of Manuscripts—Medieval Slavonic Manuscripts
 
The description of fonds of Slavic and Old-Russian manuscript books available electronically on the website of the Division of Manuscripts: http://nlr.ru/manuscripts/RA1374/yujn... and http://nlr.ru/manuscripts/RA1376/drev.... Almost all of the prerevolutionary catalogues and descriptions of Slavic manuscript books have been issued in IDC microfiche edition, but those listings are not repeated here. See PKG M&L (1972), and Sup. 1 (1976), pp. 117–40. For a comprehensive bibliography of earlier manuscript descriptions for early Slavic manuscript books, see Begunov, Sprav.-ukaz. (1963), pp. 90–99, and later GPB/RNB bibliographies listed above.
 
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Parchment Manuscripts

g-380. Opisanie russkikh i slavianskikh pergamennykh rukopisei. Rukopisi russkie, bolgarskie, moldovlakhiiskie, serbskie. Compiled by E.E. Granstrem. Edited by D.S. Likhachev. Leningrad: GPB, 1953. 129 p. (Lib: DDO; MH) [IDC-R-10,853].
Electronic edition: https://vivaldi.nlr.ru/bx000007770/view

Describes 471 medieval Slavic parchment manuscripts.

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Collection of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy

g-384. Rodosskii, A.S. Opisanie 432-kh rukopisei, prinadlezhashchikh S. Peterburgskoi dukhovnoi akademii i sostavliaiushchikh ee pervoe po vremeni sobranie. St. Petersburg: Tip. O.A. Bashkova, 1893. 427 p. (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-7238].

Describes 432 Slavic, Greek, and Latin manuscripts from the collection of the St. Petersburg Ecclesiastical Academy.

g-385. Abramovich, Dmitrii Ivanovich. Opisanie rukopisei S. Peterburgskoi dukhovnoi akademii. Sofiiskaia biblioteka. St. Petersburg: Tip. Imp. AN, 1905–1910. (Lib: DLC; MH; NN) [IDC-R-11,156].
        Vol. 1: 1905. x, 142, lxxvi p.
        Vol. 2: Chet'i minei. Prologi. Pateriki. 1907. 331 p.
        Vol. 3: Sborniki. 1910. 408 p.

Describes 259 early Slavic manuscripts from the Cathedral of Saint Sophia in Novgorod, which were transferred in 1859 to the St. Petersburg Ecclesiastical Academy, and then to the Public Library in 1919.

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Collection of the St. Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod

g-390. Tikhanov, Pavel Nikitovich. Katalog rossiiskikh rukopisnykh knig, nakhodiashchikhsia v biblioteke Novgorodskogo Sofiiskogo sobora. St. Petersburg: Tip. Dobrodeeva, 1881. xx, 28 p. “Pamiatniki drevnei pis'mennosti,” vol. 12. [IDC-R-11,204; also in IDC-1145 mf. 52-52].

Describes an additional 67 early Slavic manuscripts from the library of the Cathedral of St. Sophia in Novgorod.

g-391. Smirnov, F.K. Opisanie rukopisnykh sbornikov XVI veka Novgorodskoi Sofiiskoi biblioteki, nakhodiashchikhsia nyne v Sanktpeterburgskoi dukhovnoi akademii. St. Petersburg: Tip. A. Transhelia, 1865. 106, 11 p. [IDC-R-7330].
        Earlier ed. in LZAK za 1864 g. 3 (1865): 1–106.

Describes 24 sixteenth-century Slavic manuscripts from the library of the Cathedral of St. Sophia in Novgorod.

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Collection from the Kirillo-Belozerskii Monastery

g-395. Opisanie dokumentov XIV–XVII vv. v kopiinykh knigakh Kirillo-Belozerskogo monastyria, khraniashchikhsia v Otdele rukopisei Rossiiskoi natsional'noi biblioteki. Compiled by G.P. Enin. Edited by V.I. Afanas'ev. St. Petersburg: RNB, 1994. 452 p. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

Describes copies of 2,002 fourteenth- and fifteenth-century documents in two manuscript copy books, one from the first half of the sixteenth century and the other dating from 1620–1621.

g-396. Opis' stroenii i imushchestva Kirillo-Belozerskogo monastyria, 1601 goda: Kommentirovannoe izdanie. Compiled by Z.V. Dmitrieva and M.N. Sharomazov. St. Petersburg: “Peterburgskoe Vostokovedenie”, 1998. 380 p. [SPbF IRI RAN; RNB; Kirillo-Belozerskii istoriko-arkhitekturnyi i khudozhestvennyi muzei-zapovednik] “Slavica Petropolitana.” (Lib: MH).

A scholarly edition of a 1601 inventory of the Kirillo-Belozerskii Monastery from a manuscript copy in RNB. Of particular importance in an archival context, commentaries include an appended catalogue/correlation table providing present locations (if extant) and descriptive data for 160 manuscript books then included in the monastic library, 14 choral manuscripts, and 120 documents from the monastic archive—many of which are now scattered in several different archives, including SPbF IRI RAN and RGADA, as well as the collection from the Belozerskii Monastery itself in RNB.

g-397. Nikol'skii, Nikolai Konstantinovich. Opisanie rukopisei Kirillo-Belozerskogo monastyria, sostavlennoe v kontse XV v. St. Petersburg: Sinodal'naia tip. 1897. lix, 328 p. “Obshchestvo liubitelei drevnei pis'mennosti, [Izdanie],” vol. 113. (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-9815].

An annotated edition of a late fifteenth-century catalogue of the library of the Kirillo-Belozerskii monastery covering 957 items, with an extensive introduction.

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Collection from the Solovetskii Monastery

g-400. Opisanie rukopisei Solovetskogo monastyria, nakhodiashchikhsia v biblioteke Kazanskoi Dukhovnoi akademii. Compiled by N.F. Krasnosel'tsev, I.I. Porfir'ev and A.V. Vadkovskii. 3 vols. Kazan': Tip. Imp. Universiteta, 1881–1898. vi, xiv, 756, xlvii p.; vi, 582, lxiii p.; 368 p. (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-11,201].
Electronic edition: https://vivaldi.nlr.ru/bx000001492/view (pt. 2), https://vivaldi.nlr.ru/bx000001489/view (pt. 3)
        Supplement: Kratkii obzor kriukovykh i notnolineinykh pevcheskikh rukopisei Solovetskoi biblioteki: Prilozhenie k “Opisaniiu Solovetskikh rukopisei.” Compiled by A. Ignat'ev. Kazan': Tsentral'naia tip. 1910. 51 p. Earlier ed. in Pravoslavnyi sobesednik (Kazan', 1910).

Describes 894 manuscripts from the library of the Solovetskii monastery. The supplement lists an additional 202 fifteenth- to eighteenth-century manuscripts.

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Collection of the Society of Friends of Early Literature

g-404. Loparev, Khrisanf Mefodievich. Opisanie rukopisei Obshchestva liubitelei drevnei pis'mennosti. 3 vols. St. Petersburg: Tip. Imp. AN, 1892–1899. “Obshchestvo liubitelei drevnei pis'mennosti, [Izdanie],” vol. 100, 105, and 114. (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-7299].
        Vol. 1: Rukopisi v list. 1892 vii, 374 p.
        Vol. 2: Rukopisi v chetverku. 1893. 409 p.
        Vol. 3: Rukopisi v os'mushku. 1899. 227 p.

A description of 624 Slavic along with some Greek and other manuscripts from the collection of the prerevolutionary Society of Friends of Ancient Literature.

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Collection from the Archeological Society

g-408. Prozorovskii, D.I. Opis' drevnikh rukopisei, khraniashchikhsia v muzee Imperatorskogo Russkogo arkheologicheskogo obshchestva. St. Petersburg: Tip. Imp. AN, 1879. 307 p. (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-7321].

Describes 70 Slavic manuscripts from the prerevolutionary museum of the Imperial Archeological Society; the documentary materials covered by Prozorovskii are now in LOII.

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Alphabet Readers

g-412. Prussak, A.V. Opisanie azbukovnikov, khraniashchikhsia v Rukopisnom otdelenii Imperatorskoi Publichnoi biblioteki. Petrograd: Tip. M.A. Aleksandrova, 1915. 58 p. “Pamiatniki drevnei pis'mennosti,” vol. 186. (Lib: DLC) [IDC-R-11,203; also in IDC-1145 mf. 336-37].

A description of 23 early manuscript alphabet readers.

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Bogdanov Collection

g-414. Bychkov, Ivan Afanas'evich. Katalog sobraniia slaviano-russkikh rukopisei P.D. Bogdanova. 2 vols. St. Petersburg, 1891–1893. (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-7087].
        Vol. 1: 1891. 202 p. Earlier ed. in Otchet Imperatorskoi Publichnoi biblioteki za 1888 god. Prilozhenie II. [in IDC-R-10,847 mf. 121-29]
        Vol. 2: 1893. 333 p. Earlier ed. in Otchet . . . za 1893 god. Prilozhenie I. [in IDC-R-10,847 mf. 160-64]
        Ukazatel' k katalogu khraniashchegosia v Imperatorskoi Publichnoi biblioteke sobraniia rukopisei P.D. Bogdanova. Compiled by F. Martinson. Petrograd: Tip. Imp. AN, 1916. 191 p.

A catalogue of 275 early Slavic manuscripts from the collection of P.D. Bogdanov. The index prepared later by F.A. Martinson, was published separately, but is included in the microfiche edition.

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Buslaev Collection

g-417. Bychkov, Ivan Afanas'evich. Katalog sobraniia rukopisei F.I. Buslaeva, nyne prinadlezhashchikh Imperatorskoi Publichnoi biblioteke. St. Petersburg: Sinodal'naia tip. 1897. 359 p. (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-11,210].
        Earlier ed. in Otchet Imperatorskoi Publichnoi biblioteki za 1894 god. Prilozhenie II. [in IDC-R-10,847, mf. 165-74].

Describes 98 Slavic manuscripts from the collection of Fedor Ivanovich Buslaev (1818–1897).

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Pogodin Collection

g-420. Rukopisnye knigi sobraniia M.P. Pogodina: Katalog. Edited by O.V. Tvorogov and V.M. Zagrebin. 4 vols. Leningrad/St. Petersburg: GPB/RNB, 1988–2010. (Lib: DLC [v.1-3]; IU; MH; RGB).
Electronic edition: http://nlr.ru/manuscripts/RA357/pecha...
        Vol. 1: Compiled by E.V. Afanas'eva. 1988. 342 p.
        Vol. 2: Compiled by V.M. Zagrebin, N.N. Nevzorova, E.A. Perezhogina, et al. 1992. 305 p.
        Vol. 3: Compiled by V.M. Zagrebin, N.N. Nevzorova, et al. 2004. 390 p.
        Vol. 4: Edited by E.V. Krushel'nitskaia et al. 2010. 448 p.

A scholarly description of manuscript books in the collection of Mikhail Petrovich Pogodin (1808–1875) (fond 588) which was acquired by the library in 1852. The first volume includes a history of the collection (pp. 6–12) and covers MSS nos. 1–368. The second volume covers MSS nos. 369–636. The fourth volume covers MSS nos. 806–873. Includes detailed indexes. Updates the prerevolutionary catalogues (available on microfiche).

g-421. Zagrebin, V.M. “Serbskie rukopisi iz sobraniia M.P. Pogodina.” Arkheograficheskii ezhegodnik za 1973 god (1974), pp. 188–99. [IDC-in R-10,754 mf. 36-39].

Updated by 1988–1992 publication. Detailed scholarly description of 14 Serbian manuscripts in the otherwise poorly described collection of Mikhail Petrovich Pogodin (1808–1875).

g-422. Bychkov, Afanasii Fedorovich. Opisanie tserkovno-slavianskikh i russkikh rukopisei Imperatorskoi Publichnoi biblioteki. Part 1: Opisanie tserkovno-slavianskikh i russkikh rukopisnykh sbornikov Imperatorskoi Publichnoi biblioteki. St. Petersburg: Tip. Imp. AN, 1882. ii, 540, 154 p. (Lib: MH; NN) [IDC-R-7089].
        Earlier ed.: Opisanie slavianskikh i russkikh rukopisnykh sbornikov Imperatorskoi Publichnoi biblioteki. 2 vols. St. Petersburg: Tip. Imp. AN, 1878–1880. 352 p. (pagination continuous) [IDC-R-7090].

Describes 91 early Slavic manuscript volumes now in the collection of Mikhail Petrovich Pogodin (1808–1875), many of which were earlier in the collection of P.M. Stroev which Pogodin purchased in 1842. The first 352 pages of this book are an exact reprint of an earlier edition.

g-423. Barsukov, Nikolai Platonovich. Zhizn' i trudy P.M. Stroeva. St. Petersburg: Tip. V.S. Balasheva, 1878. 668 p. (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-11,222].

A study of the life and activities of the Slavic scholar Pavel Mikhailovich Stroev (1796–1876), who led and leader of the Archeographic Expeditions from 1829–1834. Bursukov includes most of a handlist compiled by Stroev covering over 300 manuscripts in his collection before he sold then to Pogodin in 1842.

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Pomialovskii Collection

g-425. Abramovich, Dmitrii Ivanovich. Katalog sobraniia rukopisei professora I.V. Pomialovskogo, nyne prinadlezhashchikh Imperatorskoi Publichnoi biblioteke. St. Petersburg, 1914. 180 p. [IDC-R-11,208].
        Earlier ed. in Otchet Imperatorskoi Publichnoi biblioteki za 1907 god. Prilozhenie. 180 p. [in IDC-R-10,847 mf. 229-34].

Describes 165 Slavic and 18 foreign manuscripts from the collection of Ivan Vasil'evich Pomialovskii (1845–1906), and also surveys his personal papers deposited in RNB.

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Sakharov Collection

g-428. [Sakharov, Ivan Petrovich]. Slaviano-russkie rukopisi: Otdelenie pervoe. St. Petersburg: Tip. Sakharova, 1839. 32 p. [IDC-R-11,150].
        Variant ed.: [St. Petersburg, 1842]. 40 p.

A decription of 46 early Slavic manuscripts from collection of Ivan Petrovich Sakharov ([1809]–1863). The printed copy of the unfinished 1842 variant in RNB (GPB) (included in the microfiche edition) lacks a title page. The descriptions of many of the manuscripts differ from those in the 1839 version, so that it is not possible to establish exact correlations.

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Savvaitov Collection

g-430. Bychkov, Afanasii Fedorovich. Katalog sobraniia rukopisei P.I. Savvaitova, nyne prinadlezhashchikh Imperatorskoi Publichnoi biblioteke. 2 vols. St. Petersburg: Sinodal'naia tip. 1900–1902. (Lib: NN) [IDC-R-11,207; also in IDC-R-10,847 mf. 186-98].
        Vol. 1: 1900, vi, 236 p. Earlier ed. in Otchet Imperatorskoi Publichnoi biblioteki za 1897 god. Prilozheniia I.
        Vol. 2: 1902, 100 p. Earlier ed. in Otchet . . . za 1898 god. Prilozheniia.

Describes 250 manuscripts from the collection of P.I. Savvaitov.

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F.A. Tolstoi Collection

g-434. Kaliadovich, Konstantin Fedorovich; and Stroev, Pavel Mikhailovich. Obstoiatel'noe opisanie slavianorossiiskikh rukopisei, khraniashchikhsia v Moskve, v biblioteke . . . grafa F.A. Tolstogo: S paleograficheskimi tablitsami pocherkov s XI po XVIII v. Moscow: Tip. S. Selivanovskogo, 1825. lxvii, 817 p. + 7 plates. (Lib: MH [only part 1]) [IDC-R-7113].
Electronic edition: https://vivaldi.nlr.ru/bx000007769/view
        1st supplement: Pervoe pribavlenie k opisaniiu slaviano-rossiiskikh rukopisei grafa F.A. Tolstogo. St. Petersburg, 1825. 17 p.
        2nd supplement: Stroev, P.M. Vtoroe pribavlenie k opisaniiu slaviano-rossiiskikh rukopisei, khraniashchikhsia v biblioteke grafa F.A. Tolstogo. Moscow, 1827. ix, 100 p.
        3rd supplement: Compiled by P.M. Stroev. 1828. Manuscript.

A brief description of the Slavic manuscript collection from the library of Fedor Andreevich Tolstoi (1758–1849), including 1093 manuscripts, a few, however, are now in BAN. The third supplement remains in manuscript in BAN together with most of the items describes.

g-435. Waugh, Daniel Clarke. Slavianskie rukopisi sobraniia grafa F.A. Tolstogo: Materialy k istorii sobraniia i ukazateli starykh i novykh shifrov/The F.A. Tolstoi Collection: The Slavic Manuscripts in the Collection of Count F.A. Tolstoi: Materials on the History of the Collection and Indexes of Former and Current Code Numbers. Zug, Switzerland, 1976. 122 p. An original IDC publicatin in “Micro-Book” form. Introduction and Table of Contents on printed pages with the complete text on microfiche, bound together in a space saving booklet. [IDC-R-9898].

A guide to the present location of the Slavic manuscripts from the collection of Fedor Andreevich Tolstoi, with correlation tables for the different numbering systems under which the collection has been listed in earlier catalogues and present library numbers. A sizeable part of the collection is now held in BAN, and a few manuscripts are in SPbF IRI.

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Titov Collection

g-438. Titov, Andrei Aleksandrovich. Opisanie slaviano-russkikh rukopisei, nakhodiashchikhsia v sobranii . . . chlena-korrespondenta Obshchestva liubitelei drevnei pis'mennosti A.A. Titova. 6 vols. St. Petersburg, 1893–1913. (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-7340].
        Vol.1, pt. 1: Sviashchennoe pisanie, tolkovanie sviashchennogo pisaniia i kanonicheskoe pravo. 1893. viii, 254 p. “Obshchestvo liubitelei drevnei pis'mennosti, [Izdanie],” 106.
        Vol. 1, pt. 2: Knigi bogosluzhebnye. 1901. xxiv, 469 p. “Obshchestvo liubitelei drevnei pis'mennosti, [Izdanie],” 117.
        Vol. 2: Ottsy tserkvi. 1900. vi, 155 p.
        Vol. 3: Istoriia tserkvi. 1902. xxv, 464, xxvi p.
        Vol. 4: Sistemy bogoslovskie. 1901. xiii, 424, 24 p.
        Vol. 5: Istoriia tserkvi. 1906. ix, 496, xxv p.
        Vol. 6: Sborniki i rukopisi Bodianskogo, prot. Dieva i Mel'nikova-Pecherskogo. 1913. viii, 405 p.

Describes 1860 Slavic manuscripts in the Andrei Aleksandrovich Titov collection, representing less than half of those now in RNB.

g-439. Titov, Andrei Aleksandrovich. Okhrannyi katalog slaviano-russkikh rukopisei A.A. Titova . . . v g. Rostove Iaroslavskoi gubernii. 6 vols. Rostov/Moscow, 1881–1895. (Lib: DLC; NN) [IDC-R-11,206].
        Vols. 1–2: Rostov, 1881–1883. 218 p.; 239 p.
        Vols. 3–6: Moscow, 1888–1895. 167 p.; 70, xviii p.; 68 p.; iv, 100 p.

Lists 1684 early Slavic manuscripts in the collection of Andrei Aleksandrovich Titov.

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Porfirii Uspenskii Collection

g-442. Bychkov, Ivan Afanas'evich. Kratkii obzor sobraniia rukopisei, prinadlezhashchego preosviashchennomu episkopu Porfiriiu, a nyne khraniashchegosia v Imperatorskoi Publichnoi biblioteke. St. Petersburg: [Tip. V.S. Balasheva, 1885. vi, 179 p. (Lib: NN) [IDC-R-11,157].
        Earlier ed. without separate title in the section “Priobreteniia Biblioteki,” in Otchet Imperatorskoi Publichnoi biblioteki za 1883 god, pp. 9–189. [in IDC-R-10,847 mf. 91-99].

Description of the collection of manuscripts bequeathed to the Public Library by Bishop Porfirii Uspenskii, including whole manuscript volumes and fragments in Slavic, Greek, and Oriental languages.

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Viazemskii Collection

g-445. Opisanie rukopisei kniazia Pavla Petrovicha Viazemskogo. St. Petersburg, 1902. xi, 572, xxviii p. (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-7309].

Describes 91 Slavic manuscripts from the collection of Pavel Petrovich Viazemskii (1820–1888).

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Hermitage Collection
 
For the Diderot manuscripts from the Hermitage Collection, see g–545 and g–546.
 

g-448. Al'shits, Daniil Natanovich. Istoricheskaia kollektsiia Ermitazhnogo sobraniia rukopisei. Pamiatniki XI–XVII vv.: Opisanie. Edited by A.S. Myl'nikov. Moscow: “Kniga”, 1968. 158 p. (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-R-10,851].

A description of 434 manuscripts that came to the Public Library from the Hermitage, part in the nineteenth century and part after 1917, with emphasis on the earliest part of the collection.

g-448.1. Al'shits, Daniil Natanovich; and Shapot, Elena Georgievna. Katalog russkikh rukopisei Ermitazhnogo sobraniia. Leningrad: Izd. GPB, 1960. 381 p. (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-10,852].

Describes 816 manuscripts (mostly 18th–19th cc.) that came to the Public Library from the Hermitage, part in the nineteenth century and part after 1917.

g-449. Afferica, Joan. “Considerations on the Formation of the Hermitage Collection of Russian Manuscripts.” Forschungen zur osteuropäischen Geschichte, 1976. (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-9899].

An analysis of the provenance and migration of the Russian section of the Hermitage Collection, with emphasis on the contributions of Catherine II and M.M. Shcherbatov. Includes charts of the collection and facsimiles of two eighteenth-century catalogues.

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Division of Manuscripts—Russian Archival Materials
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Modern Russian History

g-453. Bychkov, Afanasii Fedorovich. Pis'ma Petra Velikogo, khraniashchiesia v Imperatorskoi Publichnoi biblioteke, i opisanie nakhodiashchikhsia v nei rukopisei, soderzhashchikh materialy dlia istorii ego tsarstvovaniia. St. Petersburg: Tip. A. Transhelia, 1872. xx, 180 p. (Lib: DLC; MH[mf]; NN) [IDC-R-5880].

A description with extensive excerpts from letters of Peter I held in RNB.

g-454. Katalog rukopisnykh materialov o voine 1812 goda. Compiled by L.A. Mandrykina, S.O. Vialova and T.P. Voronova. Edited by V.G. Geiman. Leningrad: GPB, 1961. 168 p. [Minkul't; GPB] (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-10,886].

g-455. Fedoseeva, Elizaveta Petrovna. Opisanie rukopisnykh materialov po istorii dvizheniia dekabristov. Edited by S.B. Okun'. Leningrad, 1954. 77 p. [Minkul't; GPB] (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-R-10,887].

g-456. Stetskevich, Mirra Iakovlevna. Katalog fonda revizii senatora A.A. Polovtsova Kievskoi i Chernigovskoi gubernii, 1880–1881 gg. Leningrad: GPB, 1960. 376 p. [Minkul't; GPB] (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-R-10,909].

Describes archival materials relating to the inspection of Kyiv and Chernihiv Guberniias by Senator A.A. Polovtsov (Polovtsev) (1832–1918).

g-457. Stetskevich, Mirra Iakovlevna. Katalog rukopisnykh materialov po sotsial'no-ekonomicheskoi istorii imperializma v Rossii. Leningrad: GPB, 1960. 60 p. [Minkul't; GPB] (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-10,888].

Describes archival materials on socio-economic history (1890–1917), mostly found in personal papers in RNB, but also mentions some other fonds, collections, and individual manuscripts.

g-457.1. Stetskevich, Mirra Iakovlevna. “Materialy po sotsial'no-ekonomicheskoi istorii Rossii v 1890–1917 gg. v Otdele rukopisei Gosudarstvennoi Publichnoi biblioteki im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina.” In Iz istorii imperializma v Rossii, edited by M.P. Viatkin, pp. 434–44. Moscow: Izd-vo AN SSSR, 1959. (Lib: MH) [IDC-in R-11,110].

A brief survey of archival materials on socio-economic history (1890–1917), mostly found in personal papers in RNB, but also mentions some other fonds, collections, and individual manuscripts. A condensed version of g–457.

g-458. Stetskevich, Mirra Iakovlevna. “Materialy po istorii sovetskogo rabochego klassa v rukopisnykh fondakh Gosudarstvennoi Publichnoi biblioteki im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina.” In Voprosy istoriografii i istochnikovedeniia istorii rabochego klassa SSSR, edited by A.B. Berkevich, V.A. Ezhov, V.V. Mavrodin, V.A. Ovsiankin and V.G. Revunenkov, pp. 119–29. Leningrad: Izd-vo LGU, 1962. [IDC-in R-11,061].

A survey of materials for labor history mostly from private papers in the Manuscript Division.

g-459. Istoriia Leningrada: Katalog rukopisei. Compiled by T.P. Glushkov and V.I. Pishvanova. Edited by A.I. Andreev. Leningrad: GPB, 1954. 124 p. (Lib: MH[mf]) [IDC-R-10,889].

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Microfiche Collections

g-464. “Zemstvo Statistics: Russia 1870–1917”. Edited by A. Pries. Leiden: IDC, 1992. Microfiche edition.
        Zemstvo Statistics: Russia 1870–1917: Guide to the Microform Collection. Leiden: IDC, 1992. 91 p. Printed catalogue arranged by region; index on CD-ROM. Electronic ed.: https://brill.com/fileasset/downloads... (Lib: MH).

The bulk of the publications consists of more than 4,000 volumes covering the period from 1860 to 1917. The questionnaires, which were used in various censuses, budgets and statistical yearbooks, include about 3,500 questions. Both a printed guide and an electronic index on CD-ROM to this collection are available.CONTACT: https://brill.com/view/title/16327.

g-465. “Russian Avant-garde, 1904–1946”. Leiden: IDC, ??. Microfiche collection. Printed guide at request: complete bibliography, description of 36 literary groups (in Russian).

CONTACT: https://brill.com/fileasset/downloads....

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Autograph Collections

g-468. Dvoretskaia, Nadezhda Aleksandrovna. Katalog sobraniia avtografov M.P. Pogodina. Leningrad: GPB, 1960. 127 p. (Lib: MH[mf]) [IDC-R-10,874].

A catalogue of the autographs in the collection of Mikhail Petrovich Pogodin (1800–1875).

g-469. *Golubeva, Ol'ga Dmitrievna. Avtografy zagovorili. Moscow: Izd-vo “Knizhnaia palata”, 1991. 286 p. [Gosudarstvennaia publichnaia biblioteka imeni M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina] (Lib: DLC; MH).

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Theater and Music Manuscripts
 
See also g–521 and g–664.
 

g-471. Mirovaia muzykal'naia kul'tura v fondakh Otdela rukopisei Rossiiskoi natsional'noi biblioteki. Compiled by N.V. Ramazanova. St. Petersburg: RNB, 2006. 296 p. “Rukopisnye pamiatniki,” vol. 10. (Lib: MH).

Essays on Balakirov, medieval Russian music, the Beethoven manuscript collection in the RNB etc.

g-472. Petrova, Valentina Fedorovna. Materialy k istorii teatral'noi kul'tury Rossii XVII–XX vv.: Annotirovannyi katalog. Edited by V.I. Afanas'ev and I.A. Konopleva. 3 vols. Leningrad/St. Petersburg, 1980–1992. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).
        Vol. 1: Obshchie voprosy istorii i teorii teatra. Teatr dorevoliutsionnoi Rossii. Sovetskii teatr. 1980. 296 p.
        Vol. 2 (in 2 books): P'esy. Libretto. Notnye materialy. 1984. 586 p. (pagination continuous): Bk. 1: Materialy XVII–1917 g. Bk. 2: Sovetskii period.
        Vol. 3 (in 2 books): Personaliia. 1992. Bk. 1: A–K. 268 p. Bk. 2: L–Ia. Ukazateli 569 p.

g-473. Rozov, Nikolai Nikolaevich. “Materialy po istorii russkogo dramaticheskogo teatra v rukopisnykh fondakh Gosudarstvennoi Publichnoi biblioteki im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina v Leningrade (XVII v.–1940-e gody).” In Teatr i muzyka. Dokumenty i materialy, edited by A.D. Alekseev and I.F. Petrovskaia, pp. 57–71. Moscow: Izd-vo AN SSSR, 1963. (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-in R-10,743].

General survey of holdings.

g-474. Muzykal'nye sokrovishcha rukopisnogo otdeleniia Gosudarstvennoi Publichnoi biblioteki im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina: (Obzor muzykal'nykh rukopisnykh fondov). Compiled by A.N. Rimskii-Korsakov. Leningrad: GPB, 1938. 111 p. (Lib: DLC) [IDC-R-10,892].

g-475. Liapunova, Anastasiia Sergeevna. Tvorcheskoe nasledie M.A. Balakireva: Katalog proizvedenii. 3 vols. Leningrad: GPB, 1960. 198 p.; 164 p.; 312 p. (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-10,896].

Describes manuscripts and personal papers of the Russian composer Milii Alekseevich Balakirev (1837–1910) held in the library.

g-476. Vladimir Vasil'evich Stasov. Materialy k bibliografii: Opisanie rukopisei. Compiled by S.M. Babintsev, M.V. Kal'fa, E.N. Viner, et al. Moscow: Gos. izd-vo kul'turno-prosvetitel'noi literatury, 1956. 283 p. (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-R-10,913].

Describes manuscripts and personal papers of the Russian music and art critic Vladimir Vasil'evich Stasov (1824–1906) held in the library.

g-477. Liapunova, Anastasiia Sergeevna. Rukopisi M.I. Glinki: Katalog. Edited by V.M. Bogdanov-Berezovskii. Leningrad: GPB, 1950. 98 p. An introduction by V.M. Bogdanov-Berezovskii. (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-10,901].

Describes manuscripts and personal papers of the Russian composer Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804–1857) held in the library. Updates the 1898 catalogue of Glinka manuscripts by N.F. Findeizen.

g-478.1. Liapunova, Anastasiia Sergeevna. “Opis' arkhiva M.I. Glinki.” Sbornik GPB 2 (1954), pp. 187–234. (Lib: MH) [IDC-in R-10,848 mf. 7-12].

A condensed version of the 1950 catalogue.

g-479. Stasov, Vladimir Vasil'evich. “Avtografy muzykantov v Imperatorskoi Publichnoi biblioteke.” In Sobranie sochinenii V.V. Stasova, 1847–1886 3, pp. 17–86. St. Petersburg: Tip. I. N. Skorokhodova, 1894. (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-9894].

Describes autograph manuscripts of 24 well-known foreign composers and musicians (17th–19th cc.) with lengthy extracts and texts of some letters.

g-480. Konopleva, I.A. Katalog fonda M.N. Zagoskina. Leningrad: GPB, 1960. 28 p. (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-10,917].

Describes manuscripts and personal papers of the Russian dramatist Mikhail Nikolaevich Zagoskin (1789–1852) held in the library.

g-481. Ramazanova, Natal'ia Vasil'evna. Rukopisnye knigi sobraniia Pridvornoi pevcheskoi kapelly: Katalog. Edited by N.A. Efimova and V.M. Zagrebin. St. Petersburg: RNB, 1994. 260 p. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

Describes 105 manuscript books (17th–20th cc.) from the collection of the Imperial Court Capella.

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Art and Architectural Manuscripts

g-485. Fedoseeva, Elizaveta Petrovna. Katalog materialov po arkhitekture SSSR, khraniashchikhsia v Otdele rukopisei Gosudarstvennoi Publichnoi biblioteki im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina v Leningrade. Edited by G.G. Grimm. 3 vols. Leningrad: GPB, 1960. 273 p.; 171 p.; 95 p. (Lib: DLC) [IDC-R-10,895].

The catalogue includes architectural graphics, including maps, and text materials excluding materials for Moscow and St. Petersburg since were published in separate directories.

g-486. Fedoseeva, Elizaveta Petrovna. Opisanie arkhitekturnykh materialov: Moskva i Moskovskaia oblast'. Edited by G.G. Grimm. Leningrad: GPB, 1956. 88 p. + 21 plates. “Trudy GPB.” (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-R-10,893].

g-487. Fedoseeva, Elizaveta Petrovna. Opisanie arkhitekturnykh materialov: Leningrad i prigorody. Edited by G.G. Grimm. Leningrad: GPB, 1953. 144 p. (Lib: DLC) [IDC-R-10,894].

g-488. Fedoseeva, Elizaveta Petrovna. Katalog arkhitekturnykh materialov iz arkhiva N.L. Benua. Edited by Z.I. Fomicheva and R.B. Zaborova. Leningrad: GPB, 1965. 135 p. + 5 plates. (Lib: MH[mf]) [IDC-R-10,898].

Describes the architectural drawings and other papers of the French-born Russian architect Nicholas Benois (N.L. Benua) (1813–1898) held with his papers in RNB. See also the survey of the Benois papers in Trudy GPB, 12(15) (1964), pp. 215–18.

g-489. Fedoseeva, Elizaveta Petrovna. Leningradskie khudozhniki: Katalog akvarelei i risunkov iz lichnykh fondov, khraniashchikhsia v Otdele rukopisei i redkikh knig Gosudarstvennoi Publichnoi biblioteki im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina. Edited by V.I. Afanas'ev and A.V. Povelikhina. Leningrad: GPB, 1982. 370 p. (Lib: DLC; MH-F).

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Personal Papers
 
See additional coverage of personal papers in the sections for theater and music and art and architecture above.
 

g-493. Zaborova, R.B. Rukopisi V.G. Belinskogo: Opisanie. Edited by N.I. Morachevskii. Leningrad, 1952. 31 p. (Lib: MH[mf]) [IDC-R-10,897].

A catalogue of manuscripts of the Russian writer and social critic Vissarion Grigor'evich Belinskii (1811–1848) in RNB.

g-494. Zaborova, R.B. Rukopisi A.A. Bloka: Katalog. Leningrad: GPB, 1970. 59 folios. (Lib: MH[mf]) [IDC-R-11,112].

A catalogue of manuscripts of the Russian poet Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok (1880–1921).

g-495. Gukovskii, G.A. “Literaturnoe nasledstvo G.R. Derzhavina.” Literaturnoe nasledstvo 9–10 (1933), pp. 369–96. [IDC-in R-11,113; also in IDC-1174 mf. 70-83].

A survey of Derzhavin materials with extracts. Includes brief reference to collection in PD as well as materials in RNB.

g-496. Naidich, Erik Erozovich. Arkhiv N.A. Dobroliubova: Opis'. Edited by N.I. Morachevskii. Leningrad: GPB, 1952. 35 p. (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-R-11,899].

A catalogue of the papers of the Russian social critic Nikolai Aleksandrovich Dobroliubov (1836–1861) in RNB.

g-497. Zaborova, R.B. Rukopisi F.M. Dostoevskogo: Katalog. Leningrad: GPB, 1963. vii, 65 p. (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-10,900].

A catalogue of manuscripts of the Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevskii (1821–1881). See also the comprehensive catalogue of Dostoevskii manuscripts Opisanie rukopisei F.M. Dostoevskogo (1957).

g-498. Zaborova, R.B. Rukopisi S.A. Esenina: Katalog. Leningrad, 1970. 18 p. (Lib: MH[mf]) [IDC-R-11,115].

A catalogue of manuscripts of the Russian poet Sergei Aleksandrovich Esenin (Yesenin) (1895–1925).

g-499. Konopleva, Irina Aleksandrovna. Rukopisi A.I. Gertsena: Katalog. Edited by R.B. Zaborova. Leningrad: GPB, 1966. 41 p. Cover title: Katalog rukopisei A.I. Gertsena. [Minkul't; GPB] (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-10,905].

A catalogue of manuscripts of the Russian publicist and social philosopher Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen (Gertsen) (1812–1870) in RNB.

g-500. Rukopisi S.N. Glinki: Katalog. Compiled by E.P. Fedoseeva. Leningrad: GPB, 1963. 22 p. Mimeographed. [IDC-R-10,902].

g-501. Zaborova, R.B. Rukopisi N.V. Gogolia: Opisanie. Edited by N.I. Morachevskii. Leningrad, 1952. 58 p. (Lib: MH[mf]) [IDC-R-10,903].

A catalogue of manuscripts of the Russian writer Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol' (1809–1852).

g-502. Ravkina, Berta Izrailevna. Rukopisi I.A. Goncharova: Katalog s prilozheniem neopublikovannoi stat'i. Vol. 1. Edited by S.D. Balukhatyi. Leningrad: GPB, 1940. 44 p. (Lib: DLC; MH[mf]; NN) [IDC-R-10,904].

A catalogue of manuscripts of the Russian writer Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov (1812–1891).

g-503. Bychkov, Ivan Afans'evich. Bumagi A.A. Kraevskogo: Opis' ikh sobraniia, postupivshego v 1889 godu v Imperatorskuiu Publichnuiu biblioteku. St. Petersburg: [Tip. V.S. Balasheva], 1893. 169 p. (Lib: NN) [IDC-R-11,221].
        Serial ed.: In Otchet Imperatorskoi Publichnoi biblioteki za 1889 g., pp. 35–78, and supplements, pp. 1–14, pp. 1–109. (Lib: DLC; MH) [in IDC-R-10,847].

A catalogue of the papers of the Russian publicist and literary critic Andrei Aleksandrovich Kraevskii (1810–1889), who was the influential editor of Otechestvennyia zapiski.

g-504. Mikhailov, Anatolii Nikolaevich. Rukopisi M.Iu. Lermontova: Opisanie. Edited by B.M. Eikhenbaum. Leningrad, 1941. 74 p. + plates. Added title page in French. “Trudy GPB,” vol. 2. (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-10,906].

A catalogue of manuscripts of the Russian writer Mikhail Iur'evich Lermontov (1814–1841) in RNB. See also the additional coverage of Lermontov papers in Lermontovskaia entsiklopediia (1981) and in article by Pakhomov, N.P. “Zhivopisnoe nasledstvo Lermontova,” Literaturnoe nasledstvo 45–46 (1948), pp. 55–222.

g-505. Sazhin, Valerii Nikolaevich. N.S. Leskov: Rukopisnoe nasledie: Katalog. Edited by N.A. Efimova. Leningrad: GPB, 1991. 63 p. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

A catalogue of the manuscript legacy of Nikolai Semenovich Leskov (1831–1895) in RNB, including a few literary manuscripts, 163 letters, 15 dedicatory autographs, and some photographs.

g-506. Mikhailov, Anatolii Nikolaevich. Rukopisi N.A. Nekrasova: Katalog. Edited by N.K. Piksanova. Leningrad: GPB, 1940. 58 p. (Lib: MH[mf]) [IDC-R-11,117].

A catalogue of manuscripts of the Russian writer Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov (1821–1877).

g-507. Rukopisi A.N. Ostrovskogo: Opisanie. Compiled by A.N. Mikhailova. Edited by E.E. Naidich. Leningrad: GPB, 1956. 32 p. (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-R-10,907].

g-508. Arkhiv akademika S.F. Platonova v Otdele rukopisei Rossiiskoi natsional'noi biblioteki: Katalog. Vol. 1: Materialy k biografii. Memuarnye materialy. Raboty i issledovaniia. Materialy k rabotam. Compiled by V.A. Kolobkov. Edited by V.I. Afanas'ev. St. Petersburg: RNB, 1994. 423 p. Cover title: Katalog Arkhiva akademika S.F. Platonova. (Lib: DLC; MH).

Describes the papers of the historian Sergei Fedorovich Platonov (1860–1933) held in RNB.

g-509. Asheshova, A.N. “Rukopisnoe nasledie N.V.Pokrovskogo v otdele rukopisei i redkikh knig Rossiiskoi natsional'noi biblioteki.” In Tserkovnaia arkheologiia. Vyp.4. Materialy Vtoroi Vserossiiskoi tserkovno-arkheologicheskoi konferentsii, posviashchennoi 150-letiiu so dnia rozhdeniia N.V. Pokrovskogo (1848–1917), Sankt-Peterburg, 1–3 noiabria 1998 goda, pp. 19–24. St. Petersburg, 1998.

g-510. Petrova, V.F.; and Zaborova, R.B. Katalog fonda A.N. Pypina. Leningrad: GPB, 1962. 244, 14 p. (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-10,910].

Describes the papers of Aleksandr Nikolaevich Pypin (1833–1904) held in RNB.

g-511. Naidich, Erik Erozovich. Rukopisi M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina: Opisanie. Edited by N.I. Morachevskii. Leningrad: GPB, 1954. 32 p. (Lib: DLC) [IDC-R-10,911].

Lists the manuscripts of the Russian writer Mikhail Evgrafovoch Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826–1889).

g-512. Maikov, Vladimir Vladimirovich. Opis' bumag N.K. Shil'dera, postupivshikh v 1903 godu v Imperatorskuiu Publichnuiu biblioteku. St. Petersburg: V.F. Kirshbaum, 1910. 196 p. Published as a supplement to Otchet Imperatorskoi Publichnoi biblioteki (SPb. 1910). (Lib: MH) [IDC-in R-10,847 mf. 212-17].

Inventories the papers of the German-born historian Nikolai Karlovich Shil'der (Schilder) (1842–1902) held in RNB, with particularly rich notes and copies of documents from many archives gathered for his lengthy histories of the reigns of Alexander I and Nicholas I, among others.

g-513. Stetskevich, Mirra Iakovlevna. Katalog fonda M.M. Speranskogo (no. 731). Leningrad: GPB, 1962. 422 p. (Lib: MH[mf]) [IDC-R-10,889].

Describes the papers of Russian statesman and legal reformer Mikhail Mikhailovich Speranskii (1772–1839) held in RNB.

g-514. Mandrykina, Liudmila Alekseevna. Opisanie sobraniia rukopisnykh materialov A.V. Suvorova. Edited by S.N. Valk. Leningrad, 1955. 301 p. (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-R-10,914].

Describes the manuscript legacy in RNB of the Russian General Aleksandr Vasil'evich Suvorov (1730–1800).

g-515. Zaborova, R.B. Rukopisnye materialy, otnosiashchiesia k L.N. Tolstomu: Katalog. Leningrad: GPB, 1966. 64 folios. (Lib: MH[mf]) [IDC-R-10,915].

Describes manuscript materials relating to the Russian writer Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoi (1828–1910) held in RNB.

g-516. Zaborova, R.B. Rukopisi I.S. Turgeneva: Opisanie. Edited by M.P. Alekseev. Leningrad, 1953. 141 p. (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-R-10,916].

Describes manuscripts of the Russian writer Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883) held in RNB.

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Division of Manuscripts—Greek Manuscripts
 
The description of fonds of Greek manuscripts available electronically on the website of the Division of Manuscripts: http://nlr.ru/manuscripts/RA1370/grec.... See also the updated descriptions of Greek manuscripts by Granstrem in Vizantiiskii vremennik (1956, 1959–1971). Some of the Greek manuscripts acquired by the library before 1917 are described in published catalogues of many of the major manuscript collections with which they were acquired. See the helpful annotated bibliography of catalogues and manuscript descriptions in the 1995 edition of Richard Répertoire des bibliothèques et des catalogues de manuscrits grecs de Marcel Richard, pp. 717–28.
 

g-519. Katalog grecheskikh rukopisei Rossiiskoi natsional'noi biblioteki. Compiled by I.N. Lebedeva. Edited by Z.L. Levshina. St. Petersburg, 2014. 321 p. [RNB].
Electronic edition: https://vivaldi.nlr.ru/bx000007814/view

g-520. Catalogue des manuscrits grecs de la Bibliothèque Impériale publique. Compiled by E. Muralt. St. Petersburg: Imprimerie de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences, 1864. iv, 100 p. + [12] plates. (Lib: DDO; DLC; MH) [IDC-R-10,855].

The original catalogue of 179 Greek manuscripts and fragments, many from the collection of Constantin von Tischendorf (1815–1874).

g-521. Gertsman, Evgenii Vladimirovich (Gerzmanus). Grecheskie muzykal'nye rukopisi Peterburga: Katalog/Manuscripta Graeca musica Petropolitana. /Hellenika mousika cheirografa the Petroupoleos: Katalogos. 2 vols. St. Petersburg: Glagol, 1996–1999. “Osnovaniia khristianskoi kul'tury.” (Lib: DLC[v.1]; MH[v.1]).
Also listed as g–750.
        Vol. 1: Rossiiskaia natsional'naia biblioteka/Ethnike bibliotheke Rossias. St. Petersburg: “Glagol',” 1996. 706 p. + 29 plates. Text in Greek with Russian resumés.
        Vol. 2: *Biblioteka Rossiiskoi Akademii nauk, Arkhiv RAN, biblioteki Universiteta i Ermitazha. St. Petersburg: RNB, 1999. 619 p.

An illustrated scholarly catalogue describing Greek music manuscripts held in RNB, BAN (G–16), ARAN (E–8 and E–20), Library of the St. Petersburg University (G–17) and Library of Hermitage.

g-522. Granstrem, Evgeniia Eduardovna. “Grecheskie rukopisi Gosudarstvennoi publichnoi biblioteki im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina.” Trudy GPB 2 (1957), no. 5, pp. 211–37. [IDC-in R-10,849 mf. 7-11].

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Division of Manuscripts—Western European Manuscripts
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Collection of Incunabula

g-525. *Liublinskii, Vladimir Sergeevich; and Varbanets, Nataliia Vasil'evna. Antichnye avtory v izdaniiakh XV veka: Katalog. Edited by I.M. Borovskii. St. Petersburg: Dmitrii Bulanin, 2007. 560 p. (Lib: DLC; MH).

g-526. * Uchetnyi spisok sobraniia inkunabulov. Compiled by L.A. Kolga. Edited by V.L. Afanasev and N.V. Varbanets. Leningrad/St. Petersburg: GPB/RNB, 1981–1992. (Lib: DLC; MH).
        Vol. 1: 1981.
        Vol. 2: Bonetus–D. Compiled by L.A. Kolga. 1981.
        Vol. 3: E–Horatius. Compiled by A.Kh. Gorfunkel', L.A. Kolga. Edted by A.Kh. Gorfunkel'. 1989.
        Vol. 4: Horius. Compiled by A.Kh. Gorfunkel', L.A. Kolga. Edted by A.Kh. Gorfunkel'. 1992. 168 p.

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Latin Manuscripts

g-528. Latinskie rukopisi V–XII vekov Gosudarstvennoi Publichnoi biblioteki im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina: Kratkoe opisanie dlia Svodnogo kataloga rukopisei, khraniashchikhsia v SSSR. Compiled by E.V. Bernadskaia, S.O. Vialova and T.P. Voronova. Edited by S.O. Shmidt. Leningrad: BAN, 1983. 83 p. [AK AN SSSR; BAN SSSR; GPB] (Lib: DDO; DLC; IU; MH).

A short description of 257 manuscripts (157 codices and 100 fragments) arranged chronologically. Includes alphabetical and geographic name indexes and a list of illuminated manuscripts.

g-529. Kiseleva, Liudmila Il'inichna. Latinskie rukopisi XIII veka: (Opisanie rukopisei Rossiiskoi natsional'noi biblioteki). St. Petersburg: Dmitrii Bulanin, 2005. 296 p.
——Latinskie rukopisi XIV veka: (Opisanie rukopisei Rossiiskoi natsional'noi biblioteki). SPb, 2012. 284 p. Electronic ed.: https://vivaldi.nlr.ru/bx000007582/view.

Description of 74 Latin manuscripts of 13th c. held in the Russian National Library. With an extensive introduction.

g-530. Bakhtin, Vsevolod V. (Bakhtine, Wsevolod W.); and Dobiash-Rozhdestvenskaia, Ol'ga Antonovna. Les anciens manuscrits latins de la Bibliothèque publique Saltykov-Ščedrin de Leningrad, VIIIè-début IXè siècle. Paris: Centre nationale de la recherche scientifique, 1991. 126 p. + 8 plates. [Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes] (Lib: DLC; MH).
        Part 1: Les anciens manuscrits latins de la Bibliothèque publique Saltykov- Ščedrin de Leningrad, V–VII siècle. Leningrad, 1929. “Srednevekov'e v rukopisiakh Publichnoi biblioteki”/ “Analecta Medii Aevi,” vol. 3. [IDC-R-9812]
        Original Russian ed. (Part 2): Drevneish ie latinskie rukopisi Publichnoi biblioteki: Katalog. Part 2: Rukopisi VIII–nach. IX vv. Edited by A.D. Liublinskaia. Leningrad: GPB, 1965. 153 p. (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-9812].

The second part of the scholarly description of medieval Latin manuscripts from the Abbey of Corbie, which were acquired in the late eighteenth century by P.P. Dubrovskii (Dubrowski) from the Abbey of Saint-Germain des Près, prepared by the Russian medievalist O.A. Dobiash-Rozhdestvenskaia before her death in 1940. Includes indexes of authors, incipits, libraries, and other subjects. The first part of the catalogue covering earlier manuscripts (5th–7th cc.) appeared in French and is included with the earlier Russian edition of the second part in the microfiche edition [IDC-R-9812].

g-531. Dobiash-Rozhdestvenskaia, Ol'ga Antonovna. Istoriia pis'ma v srednie veka: Rukovodstvo k izucheniiu latinskoi paleografii. Moscow: Izd-vo AN SSSR, 1936. 227 p. [IDC-R-10,858].

Includes additional information about 27 Latin manuscripts from the fifth to the ninth century.

g-532. Dobiash-Rozhdestvenskaia, Ol'ga Antonovna. Histoire de l'atelier graphique de Corbie de 651à 830 reflétée dans les manuscrits de Léningrad. Leningrad: Publié par L'Académie des Sciences de l'URSS, 1934. 173 p. + album of 98 plates. Added Latin and Russian titles: Codices Corbeienses Leninopolitani/ Istoriia korbiiskoi masterskoi pis'ma v gody 651–830 po leningradskim kodeksam. Leningrad: Izd-vo AN SSSR, 1934; “Trudy Instituta istorii nauki i tekhniki,” ser. II, no. 3. (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-R-11,104].

A scholarly description of 36 manuscripts from the scriptorium of the Abbey of Corbie, together with a history of the monastic library and related bibliography. The copy in Widener Library at Harvard Univesity includes a hand-prepared album of 98 photographic plates prepared by the author (included in the microfiche edition).

g-533. Sterligov, Aleksandr; and Voronova, Tamara Pavlovna. Western European Illuminated Manuscripts of the 8th to the 16th Centuries in the National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg: France, Spain, England, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands. Bournemouth/St. Petersburg: Parkstone Press/Aurora, 1997. 287 p. + colored plates. (Lib: MH-F).

An exquisitely printed album of illustrations from 69 manuscripts from the Dubrovskii (Dubrowski), Suchtelen, Hermitage, and Stroganov collections, among others. A preface by Voronova (pp. 29–37) provides a history of the collections acquired by RNB, and one by Sterligov surveys the tradition of illuminated manuscripts represented. There is a technical description of each manuscript, a summary of its history and contents, and references to earlier published descriptions.

g-534. Laborde, Alexandre de. Les principaux manuscrits a peintures conservés dans l'ancienne Bibliothèque Impériale publique de Saint-Pétersbourg. 2 vols. Paris: Pour les membres de la Société française de reproductions de manuscritsà peintures, 1936–1938. 196 p. unbound + 86 plates. (Lib: DDO; MH-F) [IDC-R-10,860].
        Reprint ed.: Hildesheim, GDR/ New York: Georg Olms, 1976.

A catalogue prepared before World War I, but not all of the illuminated manuscripts covered remain in RNB. Unfortunately, the reprint edition does not update the coverage, nor indicate missing numbers.

g-535. Staerk, Dom Antonio. Les manuscrits latins du Ve au XIIIe siècle conservés a la Bibliothèque Impériale de Saint-Pétersbourg: Description, textes inédits, reproductions autotypiques. 2 vols. St. Petersburg: Imprimerie artistique Franz Krais, 1910. 320 p. + 142 plates. (Lib: DLC; MH-F) [IDC-R-10,857].
        Reprint ed.: Hildesheim, GDR/ New York: Georg Olms, 1976.

Many of the manuscripts described are from the Dubrovskii (Dubrowski) and Załuski collections. Most of the latter were returned to Warsaw after 1918 and perished in World War II. The second volume consists of facsimiles.

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French Manuscripts and Archival Materials
 
See the section above for medieval Latin manuscripts, many of which are from France.
 

g-540. Bertrand, Jean Edouard Gustave. Catalogue des manuscrits français de la Bibliothèque de Saint-Pétersbourg. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1874. 227 p. [IDC-R-10,864].
        Reprinted from Revue des sociétés savantes, 5th series, 6 (1873), pp. 373–599. (Lib: MH)
        Supplement: “Catalogue de la collection des autographes au département des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque de Saint-Pétersbourg. Relevé sommaire de ce qui intéresse l’histoire de France.” Revue des sociétés savantes, 5th series, 4 (1872), pp. 448–57. (Lib: MH).

A catalogue of manuscripts from several different collections, including those of Dubrovskii (Dubrowski) and Zaluski, arranged by subject. Many of the manuscripts from the Zaluski collection were returned to Warsaw after 1918 and perished in World War II. The documents (autographs) listed in the 1872 article are not included in the 1874 catalogue.

g-541. Bernadskaia, Elena Viktorovna. Gramoty abbatstva Sent-Antuan XIII–XVIII vv.: Katalog. Edited by V.I. Mazhuga. Leningrad: GPB, 1979. 78 p. (Lib: DLC; MH).

Describes historical documents including charters from the Abbey of Saint-Antoine-les-Champs near Paris, acquired as part of the Dubrovskii (Dubrowski) collection.

g-542. Luizova, T.V.; and Voronova, Tamara Pavlovna. Sbornik dokumentov kollektsii P.P. Dubrovskogo: Katalog. Leningrad: GPB, 1979. 131 p. (Lib: MH).

g-543. Voronova, Tamara Pavlovna. Katalog pisem gosudarstvennykh i politicheskikh deiatelei Frantsii XV veka iz sobraniia P.P. Dubrovskogo. Edited by N.A. Efimova and I.P. Malinin. St. Petersburg: RNB, 1993. 93 p. (Lib: IU; MH).

Describes 232 documents (166 descriptions) from the collections of charters and autographs of P.P. Dubrovskii (Dubrowski). Includes indexes of names and places.

g-544. Bernadskaia, Elena Viktorovna; and Voronova, Tamara Pavlovna. Katalog pisem i drugikh materialov zapadnoevropeiskikh uchenykh i pisatelei XVI–XVIII vv. iz sobraniia P.P. Dubrovskogo/Catalogue of Letters and Other Papers of European Scientists and Writers of XVI–XVIII Centuries Desposited in P. Dubrovsky's Collection. Edited by M.P. Alekseev. Leningrad: GPB, 1963. 105 p. Added title page, summary, and table of contents in English, French, and German. (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-R-10,856].

Describes 308 documents from France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands in the collection of charters and autographs of P.P. Dubrovskii (Dubrowski).

g-545. Tourneux, Maurice. Les manuscrits de Diderot conservés en Russie, catalogue dressé. Geneva: Slatkine Reprints, 1967. 42 p. (Lib: MH).
        Original serial ed.: Tourneux, Maurice. “Les manuscrits de Diderot conservés en Russie: Catalogue.” Archives des missions scientifiques, 3d series, 12 (Paris, 1885), pp. 439–74. (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-R-10,869].

Describes the 32 volumes of manuscripts of Diderot's works, from the Imperial Hermitage Collection transferred to the Public Library in the 1860s. See the separate analysis of the earlier missing vol. 17 (g–546).

g-546. Johansson, Johan Viktor. Études sur Denis Diderot: Recherches sur un volume-manuscrit conservé a la Bibliothèque Publique de l'état a Léningrad. Goteborg/Paris: Wettergren & Kerbers/Champion, [1927]. ix, 209 p. + plates. Translated from the Swedish by M. Ransson. (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-10,870].

Analyzes volume 17 of the Diderot manuscripts from the Imperial Hermitage Collection which was missing at the time of the Tourneux catalogue (g–545).

g-547. Liublinskaia, Aleksandra Dmitrievna. Bastil'skii arkhiv v Leningrade: Annotirovannyi katalog. Edited by T.P. Voronova. Leningrad: GPB, 1988. 185 p. [Minkul't RSFSR; GPB] (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).
        Earlier ed.: Dokumenty iz bastil'skogo arkhiva: Annotirovannyi katalog. Leningrad: GPB, 1960. 327 p. (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-10,865].

g-548. Liublinskaia, Aleksandra Dmitrievna. “Bastiliia i ee arkhiv.” In Frantsuzskii ezhegodnik: Stat'i i materialy po istorii Frantsii. 1958, pp. 104–26. Moscow: Izd-vo AN SSSR, 1959. [IDC-R-10,866].

A description of the fate of the Bastille Archive (a part of which is now in the Dubrovskii collection of GPB) after the fall of the Bastille.

g-549. Voronova, Tamara Pavlovna. Dokumenty epokhi Velikoi frantsuzskoi revoliutsii XVIII veka v sobranii P.K. Sukhtelena: Annotirovannyi katalog. Edited by S.N. Iskiul'. Leningrad: GPB, 1992. 78 p. (Lib: DLC; MH).

A catalogue of 225 documents (1789–1804) from the collection of the Russian military engineer and diplomat Petr Kornil'evich Sukhtelen (Suchtelen) (1751–1836), which was acquired by the library in 1836. An appendix describes an additional 44 documents from the same period from the archive of Jean-François-Marie, Baron de Bongars (1758–1833). Includes a list of French documents from the same period in other fonds in the division and an index of names of correspondents and addresses.

g-550. Shishmarev, V.F. “Frantsuzskie rukopisi Gosudarstvennoi publichnoi biblioteki.” In Rukopisnoe nasledie V.F. Shishmareva v arkhive Akademii nauk SSSR: Opisanie i publikatsii, pp. 75–134. Moscow: “Nauka”, 1965. [IDC-R-10,861].

Presents detailed description and some texts of French manuscripts in Dubrovskii and Zaluski collections.

g-551. Voronova, Tamara Pavlovna. “Frantsuzskie srednevekovye rukopisnye khigi v sobranii Gosudarstvennoi biblioteki im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina. (Iz istorii srednevekovykh bibliotek i kolletsii).” Srednie veka 22 (1962), pp. 258–66. [IDC-R-10,862].

Describes the medieval manuscript books with extensive bibliographical footnotes, including references to earlier catalogues.

g-552. Brayer, Edith. “Manuscrits français du Moyen Age conservès a Leningrad.” Bulletin d’information de l’Institut de recherches et d’histoire des textes, 1958, no. 7, pp. 23–33. [IDC-R-10,863].

A list of 75 medieval French manuscripts in the Manuscript Division of GPB, correlated with the earlier catalogues of Laborde (g–534) and Bertrand (g–540) and indicating those for which microfilms are available in Paris.

g-553. Iskiul', Sergei Nikolaevich. “Vestfal'skii arkhiv v Gosudarstvennoi Publichnoi biblioteke im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina.” Arkheograficheskii ezhegodnik za 1971 god (1972), pp. 284–89. [IDC-in R-10,754 mf. 121-28].

Surveys materials relating to the administration of Westphalia in the early nineteenth century (1805–1814) found in the Sukhtelen collection in GPB.

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German Manuscripts
 
See also g–544.
 

g-558. Minzloff, Rudolf. Die altdeutschen Handschriften der kaiserlichen Öffentlichen Bibliothek zu St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg: Buchdrückerei der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften/ Berlin: Verlag bei E.S. Mittler, 1853. 128 p. (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-R-11,212].

A scholarly description of 21 manuscripts (14th–15th cc.) with extensive extracts.

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Italian Manuscripts and Archival Materials

g-560. Bernadskaia, Elena Viktorovna. Ital'ianskie gumanisty v sobranii rukopisei Gosudarstvennoi Publichnoi biblioteki im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina: Katalog. Leningrad: GPB, 1981. xiv, 134 p. (Lib: DLC; MH).

g-560.1. Bernadskaia, Elena Viktorovna. “Ital'ianskie gumanististicheskie rukopisi v sobranii rukopisei Gosudarstvennoi Publichnoi biblioteki im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina.” Srednie veka 47 (1984), pp. 185–214, and 48 (1985): 270–99. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

g-561. Bernadskaia, Elena Viktorovna. “Ital'ianskaia rukopisnaia kniga v sobranii Gosudarstvennoi publichnoi biblioteki im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina v Leningrade.” Srednie veka 30 (1967), pp. 251–60. [IDC-R-10,871].

Gives a brief description of the 250 Italian manuscript books in GPB, dating from the 5th to the 18th century.

g-562. Bernadskaia, Elena Viktorovna. “Arkhiv venetsianskogo izdatelia A. Kaladzhera v Leningrade.” In Rossiia i Italiia. Iz istorii russko-ital'ianskikh kul'turnykh i obshchestvennykh otnoshenii, edited by S.D. Skazkin, et al, pp. 51–56. Moscow: “Nauka”, 1968. (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-R-10,872].

Brief description of the papers of the abbot D. Angelo Calogera (1699–1755) which include over 12,000 letters addressed to him.

g-563. De Michelis, C. “L'epistolario di Angelo Calogera.” Studi veneziani Firenze 10 (1968), pp. 621–704. (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-R-11,105].

A catalogue of correspondence of the Abbot Angelo Calogera (1696–1755), arranged alphabetically by author, with index. Now part of fond 975 in RNB.

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Manuscripts from the Netherlands

g-565. Welter, Willem Leonard. Lijst der Nederlandsche handschriften in de Rus-Keizerlijke Bibliotheek te St. Petersburg. [Leiden: s.n. 1856]. 16 p. (Lib: MH[mf]) [IDC-R-9896].

Lists 98 manuscripts (15th–18th cc.) from the Netherlands found in RNB in the nineteenth century.

g-566. Van Bleeck van Rijsewijk, F.G.B. “Catalogus van Nederlandsche Handschriften, welke berusten in de Keizerlijke Bibliothek te St. Petersburg.” Berigten van het Historisch Gezelschap te Utrecht 2 (1848), pp. 46–79. (Lib: MH[mf]).

Lists 19 manuscripts (14th–18th cc.) from the Netherlands found in RNB in the nineteenth century.

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Scandinavian Documents
 
For documentation in the Sukhtelen (Suchtelen) collection, see the article in Istoricheskie sviazi Skandinavii i Rossii IX–XX vv.: Sbornik statei (1970), pp. 356–66, and g–549.
 

g-568. Liublinskaia, Aleksandra Dmitrievna. “Archives de J.J. Berzelius se trouvant a la Bibliothèque publique Saltykov-Chtchedrine de Léningrad.” In K. Svenska Veternskapsakademiens arsbok för ar, pp. 303–24. 1958. (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-R-11,106].

A survey of the correspondence of the early nineteenth-century Swedish chemist including a list of the letters of his Scandinavian correspondents to be found in the Sukhtelen collection.

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Division of Manuscripts—Eastern European Manuscripts
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Manuscripts from Poland

g-570. Korzeniowski, Józef. Zapiski z rękopisó w Cesarskiej Biblioteki Publicznej w Petersburgu i innych bibliotek peterburskich: Sprawozdanie z podró zy naukowych odbytych w 1891–1892 i w 1907 r. Cracow: Nakladem Akademii Umiejętności, 1910. xli, 408 p. “Archiwum do dziejów literatury i oświaty w Polsce,” vol. 11: Zapiski i wyciagi z rękopisów bibliotek polskich i obcych, do Polski się odnoszacych. I. Cesarska Biblioteka Publiczna w Petersburgu. (Lib: DLC; MH[mf]) [IDC-R-11,103].
        Review and Supplement: A.C. Croiset van der Kop, in Archiv für slavische Philologie 35 (1913), pp. 226–52. [IDC-in 652].

A catalogue of 491 codices, including manuscript books and collections of documents, mostly relating to Poland, retained before World War I in the Imperial Public Library. Also includes 35 manuscripts in the library of the General Staff and 10 in the library of the Roman Catholic Seminary in St. Petersburg. Manuscripts from the Zaluski collection and some others were returned to Poland in the 1920s, a large portion of which perished during World War II. See the continuation by Kozlowska-Studnicka (g–571).

g-571. Kozlowska-Studnicka, Janina. Katalog rękopisó w polskich (poezyj), wywiezionych niegdyś do Cesarskiej Biblioteki Publicznej w Petersburgu, znajdujacych się obecnie w Bibliotece Uniwersyteckiej w Warszawie. Cracow: Nakladem Polskiej Akademii Umiejętności; skl. gl. w księg. Gebethnera i Wolffa, 1929. 132 p. [Biblioteka Uniwersytecka w Warszawie] (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-9813].

A continuation of the Korzeniowski catalogue (g–570), describing 194 manuscripts of Polish poetry and collections of documents, mostly relating to Poland (the catalogue was prepared in 1913). All but 7 items (Pol. Q. XIV 85, 111, 126, 132; Pol. Q. XIV 8, 22, 23) were returned to Poland in the 1920s and housed in the University Library in Warsaw; but most of them perished in World War II (according to a later Polish account Pol. Q. XIV 126 and 132 were also returned to Poland, but that was apparently not the case). See further details about the fate of the manuscripts in g–572 below.

g-572. Sigla codicum manuscriptorum que olim in Bibliotheca Publica Leninopolitana exstantes nunc in Bibliotheca Universitatis Varsoviensis asservantur. Cracow: [Drukarnia W.L. Anczyca i spolki], 1928. 75 p. [Edita cura Delegationis polonicae in Mixta polono-sovietica commissione peculiari Moscoviae/ Delegacja w Mieszanej polsko-sowieckiej komisji specjalnej w Moskwie]. “Prace biblioteczne Krakowskiego Kola Zwiazku bibliotekarzy polskich,” vol. 4. (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-11,205].
        Supplement: Supplementum ad sigla codicum manuscriptorum que olim in Bibliotheca Publica Leninopolitana exstantes nunc in Bibliotheca Universitatis Varsoviensis asservantur. [Compiled by Edward Kuntzy]. Cracow, 1937. 7 p. [in IDC-R-11,205].

A list of approximately 13,200 manuscripts returned to Poland from Leningrad in the 1920s (according to revindication agreements of the Treaty of Riga). The supplement lists (by code number) additional manuscripts returned subsequently, or which had been omitted from the initial catalogue. These lists provide correlation for earlier catalogues of the Zaluski collection and other materials relating to Poland covered by the prerevolutionary catalogues in RNB. Regarding the destruction of these manuscripts in Warsaw during World War II, see Straty bibliotek i archiwów warszawskich w zakresie rękopismiennych zródel historycznych, vol. 3: Biblioteki (Warsaw: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1955; 395 p.).

g-573. * Biblioteka Zaluskikh i Rossiiskaia natsional'naia biblioteka. Compiled by M.D. Moricheva. Edited by V.N. Zaitsev. St. Petersburg: RNB, 2001. 214 p. (Lib: MH).

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Czech Manuscripts

g-576. Flajshans, Vaclav. Knihy ceské v knihovnách svédských a ruskych. Prague: Nákladem Ceské akademie cisare Frantiska Josefa pro vedy, slovesnost a umeni, 1897. 72 p. “Sbirka pramenuv ku poznáni literárniho zivota v Cechách, na Morave a v Slezsku,” Section 3: “Prace bibliograficke,” vol. 2. (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-11,211].

Describes 51 Czech manuscripts (1419–1815), including some Latin codices, held by the Public Library in the late nineteenth century, some of which were revindicated to Poland after World War I. See also the later survey by A.S. Myl'nikov in Trudy GPB 5(8) (1958), pp. 119–36, but that coverage provides no correlation with those described by Flajshans.

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Bolgarian and other South Slavic Manuscripts

g-580. Rozov, Nikolai Nikolaevich. “Bolgarskaia knizhnaia starina v rukopisnykh fondakh Gosudarstvennoi Publichnoi biblioteki im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina v Leningrade.” Izvestiia na Narodnata biblioteka i bibliotekata na Sofiiskiia d"rzhaven universitet (Sofia) 3 (1963), no. 9, pp. 13–27. (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-11,102].

Surveys early medieval Bulgarian manuscript books in the Division.

g-581. Rozov, Nikolai Nikolaevich. “Iuzhnoslavianskie rukopisi Gosudarstvennoi publichnoi biblioteki: Obzor.” Trudy GPB 5 (1958), no. 8, pp. 105–18. [IDC-in R-10,849 mf. 23-27].

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Manuscripts from Ukrainian Lands

g-585. Fetisov, I.I. “Ukrains'ki rukopysy zbirky Iu.A. Iavors'koho.” Naukovyi zbirnyk Leninhrads'koho tovarystva doslidnykiv ukrains'koi istorii, pys'menstva ta movy 3 (Kyiv, 1931), pp. 17–31. (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-11,209].

Describes 62 manuscripts in the collection of Iulian Andriiovych Iavors'kyi (Iu.A. Iavorskii) (1873–1937) (fond 893) acquired by the Public Library in 1917, including 2 Latin, 27 Russian, and 33 Galician and Carpatho-Ruthenian manuscript codices, and an additional 5 charters.

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Division of Manuscripts—Oriental Manuscripts
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Arabic Manuscripts

g-588. Lebedev, Viktor Vladimirovich. Arabskie dokumenty IX–X vv.: Katalog. Edited by O.G. Bol'shakov. Leningrad: GPB, 1978. 105 p. (Lib: DLC; MH).

g-589. Mikhailova, A.I. “Obzor arabskikh rukopisei ‘novoi serii' Gosudarstvennoi Publichnoi biblioteki im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina.” Vostochnyi sbornik 3 (1972), pp. 43–60. [IDC-in R-11,101 mf. 10-12].

A brief survey of Arabic manuscripts received by the Division after 1854 with a list of 35 of the most significant texts. Includes detailed notes with bibliography of previously published catalogues and descriptions.

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Armenian Manuscripts

g-592. Iuzbashian, Karen Nikitovich. Armianskie rukopisi v Peterburgskikh sobraniiakh: Katalog. St. Petersburg: Dmitrii Bulanin, 2005. 344 p. “Pravoslavnyi Palestinskii sbornik,” vol. 41 (104).
Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (annotation, introduction, summary, contents, indexes)

Catalogue containes description of Armenian manuscripts held in RNB, Institute of Oriental Manuscripts (former St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, E–30), St. Petersburg State University, E-98), State Hermitage (H–235), St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences (E–20), and Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) (E–25). The description of 113 Armenian manuscripts held in RNB see on pp. 17–60.

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Chinese and Manchu Manuscripts

g-594. Man'chzhurskie rukopisi i ksilografy Gosudarstvennoi Publichnoi biblioteki im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina: Sistematicheskii katalog. Compiled by K.S. Iakhontov. Edited by O.V. Vasil'eva. Leningrad: GPB, 1991. 115 p. [Minkul't RSFSR; GPB] (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

Provides a full scholarly description of 91 Manchu manuscripts and xylographs, Dagur manuscripts, bi- and multilingual editions of the Ching dynasty (1644–1911), and also manuscript materials of well-known Russian Manchu specialists. See corrections and supplemental notes in g–595.

g-595. Kitaiskie rukopisi i ksilografy Publichnoi biblioteki: Sistematicheskii katalog. Compiled by K.S. Iakhontov. Edited by I.L. Krol'. St. Petersburg: RNB, 1993. 311 p. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

Describes 364 Chinese manuscripts and xylographs (16th–19th cc.), which constitute almost all of the Chinese materials in the MS Division, and also the manuscripts and xylographs in the Division of Literature of Countries of Asia and Africa, and the collection of New Year's woodprints in the Prints and Engravings Division. Includes corrections and supplemental notes for g–594.

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Coptic Manuscripts
 
For Ethiopic manuscripts see: Zanutto, S. Manoscritti Etiopici (1929); Turaev, B.A. Efiopskie rukopisi v S.-Peterburge (1906) and Efiopskie rukopisi v sobraniiakh Sankt-Peterburga: Katalog (1996).
 

g-598. Elanskaia, Alla Ivanovna. Koptskie rukopisi Gosudarstvennoi Publichnoi biblioteki im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina. Leningrad: “Nauka”, 1969. 151 p. “Palestinskii sbornik,” vol. 20(83). (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-R-10,876].

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Egyptian Papyri

g-600. Evgenova, V.I. “O drevneegipetskikh papirusakh sobraniia Gosudarstvennoi Publichnoi biblioteki im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina.” Trudy GPB 2 (1957), no. 5, pp. 5–16. [IDC-in R-10,849 mf. 7-11].

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Hebrew and Related Manuscripts
 
See the scholarly cataloguing data for many of the Hebrew manuscripts in RNB prepared by the Institute for Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts (IMHM) in Jerusalem, now available electronically: http://jnul.huji.ac.il/imhm/ and http://aleph500.huji.ac.il/F/?func=fi....
 

g-603. “Iz istorii sobranii.” Vostochnyi sbornik 6 (2003), pp. 12–76.

The paragraph contain four articles about the history and contents of the collections of Abraham ben Samuel Firkovich (A.S. Firkowitsch) (1786–1874):
        Vasil'eva, O.V.: “‘Odesskoe sobranie’ Avraama Firkovicha,” pp. 12–35;
        Zaikovskii, B.I.; Romanova, A.A.: “‘Pol'skie dokumenty’ sobraniia A.S. Firkovicha,” pp. 36–50;
        Kharviainen, T.; Shekhade, Kh.: “Kak Avraam Firkovich priobrel ogromnuiu kollektsiiu samaritianskikh rukopisei v 1864 godu v Nabluse?” pp. 51–69;
        Kharviainen, T.: “Kairskie genizy i drugie istochniki Vtorogo sobraniia Firkovicha,” pp. 70–76.

g-604. Starkova, Klavdiia Borisovna. “Rukopisi kollektsii Firkovicha Gosudarstvennoi Publichnoi biblioteki im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina.” Pis'mennye pamiatniki Vostoka. 1970 3 (1974), pp. 165–92. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).
Electronic edition: http://orientalstudies.ru/rus/images/...
        French ed.: “Les manuscrits de la collection Firkovic conserves a la Bibliotheque publique d’Etat Saltykov-Scedrin.” in Revue des Etudes Juives, vol. 134, no. 3–4 (July–December 1975), pp. 101–17. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

A general survey of the history and contents of the first and second collections of Abraham ben Samuel Firkovich (A.S. Firkowitsch) (1786–1874), with extensive updated references to relevant scholarly literature.

g-605. Samaritianskie dokumenty Gosudarstvennoi Publichnoi biblioteki im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina: Katalog. Compiled by L.K. Vil'sker. Edited by V.V. Lebedev. St. Petersburg: RNB, 1992. 105 p. [Minkul't RSFSR; GPB] (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

Provides a full scholarly description of documents from the Samaritan community in Nablus (Palestine) from the A.S. Firkovich (Firkowitsch) collection. The 98 documents described (16th–19th cc.) are in the Samaritan (Aramaic) and Arabic languages.

g-606. Reshimat kitve-yad be-‘Arvit-Yehudit be-Leningrad: Reshimah ara‘it shel kitve-yad be‘Arvit-Yehudit be-osfe Firkovits / A Handlist of Judeo-Arabic Manuscripts in Leningrad: A Tentative Handlist of Judeo-Arabic Manuscripts in the Firkovic Collections/Spisok arabsko-evreiskikh rukopisei v Leningrade: Nepolnyi spisok iz kollektsii Firkovicha po katalogam Publichnoi biblioteki. Compiled by P.B. Fenton. Jerusalem, 1991. xvi, 152 p. [Mekhon Ben-Tsevi, Yad Yitshak Ben-Tseviveha-Universitah ha-‘Ivrit /Ben-Zvi Institute and the Hebrew University (Jerusalem); GPB].
Based on the card catalogue of the State Public Library prepared and updated by A.A. Garkavi (Harkavy), R. Kokovtsov, R. Ravrebe, A. Vasil'ev, and V.V. Lebedev. Introduction and table of contents also in English. (Lib: DLC).

An updated listing in Hebrew of Judeo-Arabic manuscripts (Arabic texts written in Hebrew characters) in the A.S. Firkovich second collection. The introduction provides a summary history of the collection and cites earlier literature and existing catalogues that served as a basis for the handlist. Appendices provide a list of Judeo-Arabic items in the first Firkovich collection, and a selective list of the philosophical, ethical, and medical manuscripts in the Judeo-Arabic first series, as well as indexes. Updates the coverage in the 1987 Lebedev catalogue (g–607).

g-607. Lebedev, Viktor Vladimirovich. Arabskie sochineniia v evreiskoi grafike: Katalog rukopisei. Leningrad: GPB, 1987. 122 p. [GPB] (Lib: MH).

An inventory of Judeo-Arabic manuscripts in the Firkovich collection.

g-608. Kitve ha-yad be-‘Arvit-Yehudit be-osfe Firkovitsh: hibure Yosef Albatsir: katalog le-dugma: mekorot u-mehkarim; David Skler; be-hishtatfut, Hagai Ben-Shamai/Judaeo-Arabic Manuscripts in the Firkovitch Collections: The Works of Yusuf al-Basir. Jerusalem, 1997. 139 p. [Mekhon Ben-Tsevi, le-heker kehilot Yisrael ba-Mizrah (Jerusalem); RNB] “Mifal le-heker ha-tarbut ha-Arvit-ha-Yehudit ve-sifrutah.” (Lib: MH).

A catalogue of eleventh-century manuscripts by Basir, Joseph ben Abraham from the A.S. Firkovich (Firkowitsch) collection.

g-609. Harkavy, Albert (Garkavi, Abraham); and Strack, Hermann Leberecht. Catalog der hebräischen und samaritanischen Handschriften der Kaiserlichen Öffentlichen Bibliothek in St. Petersburg. 2 vols. St. Petersburg, 1874–1875. (Lib: DLC; MH).
        Vol. 1: Catalog der hebräischen Bibelhandschriften. SPb.: C. Ricker/ Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs, 1875. xxxiii, 297 p. [IDC-R-10,878]
        Vol. 2: Opisanie rukopisei samaritianskogo Piatiknizhiia, khraniashchikhsia v Imperatorskoi Publichnoi biblioteke. 2 vols. SPb.: Tip. Imp. AN, 1874–1875. 536 p. (pagination continuous). Added title page in German: Die samaritanischen Pentateuchhandschriften. [IDC-R-7103].

The initial published catalogues covering the Firkovich collection. The first volume describes the Torah scrolls (nos. 1–47) and codices (nos. 48–146) from the first Firkovich collection; and also the Torah scrolls (nos. 1–35) and codices (nos. 1–19) from the collection transferred to the Imperial Public Library from Odessa, and earlier described by Pinner (see g–612).
        The second volume describes manuscripts of the Samaritan Pentateuch from the first Firkovich collection.

g-610. Harkavy, Albert (Garkavi, Abraham); and Strack, Hermann Leberecht. “O kollektsii vostochnykh rukopisei A. Firkovicha, nakhodiashchikhsia v Chufutkale.” Zhurnal Ministerstva narodnogo prosveshcheniia 178 (1875), no. 3, pp. 5–49. [IDC-in R-1203 mf. 2898-2913].

A survey of part of the Firkovich collection acquired by the Imperial Public Library, with special emphasis on the Hebrew manuscripts.

g-611. Borisov, A.Ia. “Sobranie samaritianskikh rukopisei A. Firkovicha.” Palestinskii sbornik 15 (1966), no. 78, pp. 60–73. (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-11,107].

A detailed list of 91 manuscripts from the Firkovich collection not covered in earlier catalogues, including some Arabic texts. Manuscripts are from the sixth (historical chronicles, literature, and legends) and eighth (natural sciences and medicine) sections.

g-612. Pinner, Moses. Prospectus der Odessaer Gesellschaft für Geschichte und Altherthümer gehörenden ältesten hebräischen und rabbinischen Manuscripte. Odessa, 1845. 92 p. + 3 plates. Added title: Reshimat ve-tokhen kitve yad . . . (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-11,214].
        Russian summary: Mikhnevich, I. “O evreiskikh rukopisiakh, khraniashchikhsia v Muzeume Odesskogo obshchestva istorii i drevnostei.” Zapiski Odesskogo obshchestva istorii i drevnostei, 1848, pp. 47–77. [IDC-in R-1439].

Describes the collection of Hebrew manuscripts formerly held by the Society for History and Antiquities in Odessa, subsequently transferred to the Imperial Public Library. Most of them were later described by Harkavy (g–609).

g-613. Gurland, Jonah (Jonas) Hayyim. Kurze Beschreibung der mathematischen, astronomischen und astrologischen hebräischen Handschriften der Firkowitsch'schen Sammlung in der Kaiserlichen Öffentlichen Bibliothek zu St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg: Buchdrückerei der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1866. 57 p. Added title page in Hebrew. “Neue Denkmaler der judischen Litteratur in St. Petersburg.” (Lib: DLC; MH[mf]) [IDC-R-10,880].
        Russian ed.: Gurliand, Iona. Kratkoe opisanie matematicheskikh, astronomicheskikh i astrologicheskikh evreiskikh rukopisei iz kollektsii Firkovichei, khraniashchikhsia v Imperatorskoi Publichnoi biblioteke v S.-Peterburge. SPb.: Tip. Imp. AN, 1866. 59 p. “Novye pamiatniki evreiskoi literatury v S.-Peterburge,” vol. 2. [IDC-R-11,231] Also published in Trudy Vostochnogo otdeleniia Imperatorskogo Russkogo arkheologicheskogo obshchestva 14 (1869), pp. 221. [IDC-in 1939].

Describes manuscripts in the first Firkovich collection.

g-614. Katsh, Abraham Isaac. The Antonin Genizah in the Saltykov-Shchedrin Public Library in Leningrad. New York: Institute of Hebrew Studies, New York University, 1963 [©1962]. 17 p.
Cover title: “Reprinted, with corrections, from the Leo Jung Jubilee volume, 1962.”
        Earlier ed.: The Leo Jung Jubilee Volume: Essays in his honor on the occasion of his seventieth birthday 5722/1962. Edited by M.M. Kasher, N. Lamm, and L. Rosenfeld, pp. 115–31. New York, 1962. (DLC; MH).

Describes part of the collection of Hebrew manuscripts made by Archimandrite Antonin, listing documents acquired from the Cairo Geniza. The list is based on the card catalogue in GPB prepared by Harkavy in the nineteenth century.

g-615. Vartanov, Iurii P. Evreiskie paleotipy Rossiiskoi natsional'noi biblioteki: Nauchnoe opisanie. St. Petersburg: RNB, 1996. 166 p. Added English title page: Hebrew Paleotypes in the National Library of Russia: Detailed Description. [RNB] (Lib: DLC; MH).

A scholarly description of 101 early sixteenth-century imprints, which should be considered of archival interest by virtue of their uniqueness and inscriptions.

g-616. Borisov, A.Ia. “Mu‘tazilitskie rukopisi Gosudarstvennoi Publichnoi biblioteki v Leningrade.” Bibliografiia Vostoka 8/9 (1935), pp. 69–95. [IDC-in R-1677 mf. 16-19].
Republished in Materialy i issledovaniia po istorii meoplatonizma na srednevekovom vostoke, pp. 219–37. St. Petersburg, 2002; Pravoslavnyi Palestinskii sbornik, vyp. 99 (36). Electronic ed.: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ima....

Describes a few Mu‘tazilitskie manuscripts with Arabic text in Hebrew characters.

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Indian Manuscripts

g-620. Mironov, Nikolai Dmitrievich. Katalog indiiskikh rukopisei Rossiiskoi Publichnoi biblioteki: Sobranie I.P. Minaeva i nekotorye drugie. Petrograd: Izd. Rossiiskoi AN, 1918. 360 p. (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-R-10,885].

A scholarly description of manuscripts in Sanskrit and other Indian languages held by the library before World War I. See also the later survey coverage by V.M. Beskrovnyi in Sbornik GPB 3 (1955), pp. 157–70.

g-621. Beskrovnyi, V.M. “Indiiskie rukopisi, napisannye v Rossii.” Sbornik GPB 3 (1955), pp. 157–70. [IDC-in R-10,848 mf. 13-17].

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Kurdish Manuscripts

g-624. Rudenko, Margarita Borisovna. Opisanie kurdskikh rukopisei leningradskikh sobranii. Moscow: Izd-vo vostochnoi literatury, 1961. 125 p. [AN SSSR; INA] (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-R-10,877].
(Also listed as e–248).

Covers manuscripts in the A.D. Jaba (Zhaba) Collection in RNB as well as a few manuscripts in SPbF IV. See also the author's earlier article “Kollektsiia A.D. Zhaba (Kurdskie rukopisi),” in Trudy GPB 2(5) (1957), pp. 165–84.

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Mongolian Manuscripts

g-627. Sankrit'iaiana, E.N. “Kratkii sistematicheskii katalog mongol'skikh rukopisei i ksilografov Gosudarstvennoi Publichnoi biblioteki im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina.” Vostochnyi sbornik, 1972.

A short catalogue of 39 Mongolian manuscripts held by the Division.

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Persian and Tadzhik Manuscripts
 
Note that the archives of the Khanates of Khiva and Kokand, catalogues for the manuscripts from which were prepared in GPB, are now held in the Historical Archive of the Uzbek Republic in Tashkent, although microfilms remain in RNB.
 

g-630. Iastrebova, O.M. Persidskie i tadzhikskie dokumenty v otdele rukopisei Rossiiskoi natsional'noi biblioteki: Sistematicheskii katalog. Edited by O.F. Akimushkin and O.V. Vasil'eva. St. Petersburg: RNB, 1999. 208 p. (Lib: DLC; MH).

Annotated catalogue of 248 manuscript documents (letters, acts, etc.) of 16th–20th cc.

g-631. Kostygova, G.I. Persidskie i tadzhikskie rukopisi Gosudarstvennoi Publichnoi biblioteki im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina: Alfavitnyi katalog. Edited by A.N. Boldyrev. 2 vols. Leningrad: GPB, 1988–1989. (Lib: DLC; MH).
        Vol. 1: Alif–sin. Vol. 2: Shin–ya.
        Earlier ed.: Persidskie i tadzhikskie rukopisi “Novoi serii” Gosudarstvennoi Publichnoi biblioteki im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina: Alfavitnyi katalog. Leningrad, 1973. 349 p. [GPB] (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-11,108].

A scholarly description of approximately 1,400 manuscripts (14th–20th cc.). Updates the coverage in the 1973 catalogue, which described 777 manuscripts acquired by the division since 1852, and not covered by Dorn (g–366 and g–367).

g-632. Kostygova, G.I. Obraztsy kalligrafii Irana i Srednei Azii XV–XIX vv. Moscow: Izd-vo vostochnoi literatury, 1963. 24 p. (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-11,109].

Surveys selected Persian manuscripts with illustrative plates.

g-633. Kostygova, G.I. “Sobranie persidskikh rukopisei, postupivshee v Publichnuiu biblioteku v 1829 godu.” Vostochnyi sbornik 6 (2003). 336–45.

g-634. Iastrebova, Ol'ga M. “Reconstruction and Description of Mirza Muhammad Muquim's Collection of Manuscripts in the National Library of Russia.” Manuscripta Orientalia 3 (1997), no. 3, pp. 24–38. (Lib: MH).

Describes 23 Persian manuscripts in the nineteenth-century collection of Mirza Muhammad Muquim b. Muhammad Amin-jan Kishi (1819–1878), which had presumably been in the Palace of bek in Shahrisabz (earlier Kish) in the Bukhara emirate, when it was captured by Russian troops. Most of the manuscripts were acquired by the library with the collection of K.P. von Kaufman, the governor-general of Turkestan.

g-635. Vasil'eva, Ol'ga Valentinovna. “Krymsko-tatarskie rukopisnye materialy v Otdele rukopisei Publichnoi biblioteki.” Vostochnyi sbornik 5 (1993), pp. 37–45. (Lib: DLC; MH).

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Syriac Manuscripts

g-638. Pigulevskaia, Nina Viktorovna. Katalog siriiskikh rukopisei Leningrada. Moscow: Izd-vo AN SSSR, 1960. 230 p. “Palestinskii sbornik,” vol. 6(69). (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-R-10,670].
Electronic edition: http://www.orientalstudies.ru/rus/ind... (preface, contents)
(Also listed as e–492).

Also covers manuscripts in the Leningrad Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies.

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Turkic Manuscripts

g-640. Dmitrieva, Liudmila Vasil'evna. “Tiurkskie rukopisi kollektsii ‘novaia seriia’ sobraniia Gosudarstvennoi Publichnoi biblioteki im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina.” Vostochnyi sbornik 3 (1972), pp. 76–85. [IDC-in R-11,101 mf. 10-12].

A brief survey of the 253 manuscripts in Turkic languages held by the Division including materials in Turkish, Uzbek, and single manuscripts in Azerbaijani and Turkmen languages. The article lists many of the most interesting items organized by subject groups and content.

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Rare Books Sector

g-644. Biblioteka Vol'tera: Katalog knig/Biblilothèque de Voltaire: Catalogue des livres. Edited by M.P. Alekseev and T.N. Kopreeva. Moscow: Izd-vo AN SSSR, 1961. 1171 p. [AN SSSR; IRLI (PD); GPB] (Lib: DLC; IU; MH) [IDC-R-10,867].

Provides a comprehensive scholarly description of 3,863 books, periodicals, and manuscripts from the personal library of Voltaire, which is now held in the Rare Book Sector of RNB. Includes indications of marginalia and other notations by Voltaire. Brief annotation of catalogue available on: http://nlr.ru/voltaire/RA401/katalog.

g-645. Corpus des notes marginales de Voltaire/Korpus der Marginalien Voltaires/ Korpus chitatel'skikh pomet Vol'tera. Edited by O.D. Golubeva, S.M. Manevich, T.P. Voronova, et al. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1979–. 5 vols. published through 1994 (vol. 5: L–M.). (Lib: DLC; MH).

A scholarly edition reproducing and copiously indexing the marginalia in the Voltaire library in RNB.

g-646. Caussy, Fernan. Inventaire des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque de Voltaire conservés a la Bibliothèque Impériale de Saint-Pétersbourg. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1913. 96 p. “Nouvelles Archives des missions scientifiques et litteraires,” vol. 7.
        Reprint ed.: Geneva: Slatkine Reprints, 1970. 96 p. (Lib: DLC; MH).

Provides a detailed inventory of 13 volumes of correspondence, 5 volumes of notes and manuscripts for Voltaire's Histoire de Russie sous Pierre le Grand, a volume of memoranda, and a volume of copies of his letters to Madame d'Epinay, which are held with his library, along with related documents from other RNB collections.

g-647. Liublinskii, Vladimir Sergeevich. “Nasledie Vol'tera v SSSR.” Literaturnoe nasledstvo 29/30 (1937), pp. 3–200. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH) [IDC-R-10,868 and in 1174].

See especially the section “Vol'terovskie materialy v sovetskikh sobraniiakh” (pp. 162–200), with most of the materials discussed are in RNB, although a few documents held elsewhere are also listed.

g-648. Frantsuzskie izdaniia perioda Parizhskoi kommuny 1871 g.: Annotirovannyi katalog kollektsii Gosudarstvennoi Publichnoi biblioteki im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina. Compiled by M.N. Alekseeva, S.M. Manevich and E.M. Teper. 3 vols. Leningrad: GPB, 1961.

g-649. Svodnyi katalog listovok pervykh let Sovetskoi vlasti (25 oktiabria [7 noiabria] 1917–1925 gg.). Edited by G.V. Mikheeva and A.F. Shevtsova. 7 vols. St. Petersburg: Izd-vo RNB, 1995–. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).
        Vol. 1 (in 2 pts.): Listovki vysshikh organov gosudarstvennoi vlasti i upravleniia, tsentral'nykh partiinykh, profsoiuznykh, komsomol'skikh I drugikh organizatsii. Compiled by Iu.S. Afanas'ev, A.F. Shevtsova, S.F. Varlamova, K.A. Chernysheva. 1995, 1996. 352 p.; 434 p.
        Vol. 2: Listovki sovetskikh, partiinykh, profsoiuznykh, komsomol'skikh i drugikh organizatsii Moskvy i Moskovskoi gubernii. Compiled by Iu.S. Afanas'ev, A.F. Shevtsova, I.I. Krylova, et al. 1999. 447 p.
        Vol. 3: Listovki sovetskikh, partiinykh, profsoiuznykh, komsomol'skikh i drugikh organizatsii Petrograda (Leningrada) i Petrogradskoi (Leningradskoi) gubernii. 2001. 412 p.
        Vol. 4, pt. 1–3: Listovki sovetskikh, partiinykh, profsoiuznykh, komsomol'skikh i drugikh organizatsii gubernii RSFSR. 2002, 2003, 2004. 480 p. 508 p. 487 p.
        Vol. 5, pt. 1: Listovki sovetskikh, partiinykh, profsoiuznykh, komsomol'skikh i drugikh organizatsii kraev RSFSR. 2005. 464 p.
        Vol. 5, pt. 2: Listovki sovetskikh, partiinykh, profsoiuznykh, komsomol'skikh i drugikh organizatsii Ural'skoi oblasti, avtonomnykh oblastei i respublik RSFSR. 2006. 432 p.
        Vol. 6: Listovki organov voennogo upravleniia, otdel'nykh voinskikh soedinenii i chastei, voennykh organizatsii i uchrezhdenii. Compiled by E.E. Alekseeva, A.F. Shevtsova, Iu.S. Afanas'ev. 2007. 415 p.
        Vol. 7: Listovki organov upravleniia zheleznodorozhnym transportom, okrugov putei soobshcheniia i otdel'nykh zheleznykh dorog. Compiled by A.F. Shevtsova. 2008. 332 p.

Catalogue of leaflets held in TsGA SPb (D–16), TsGALI SPb (D–18), GMPIR (H-101) among others.

g-650. Beloe dvizhenie: Katalog kollektsii listovok 1917–1920. St. Petersburg: RNB, 2000. 504 p. (Lib: MH[mf]).
        Microfiche edition: “Leaflets of anti-Bolshevik governments.” Leiden, The Netherlands: IDC Publishers, [2002?] 192 microfiches + guide (xxiv, 504 p.).

A collection of approximately 2,500 leaflets and pamphlets, published between 1917–1920 in the territory of the Volga basin, Ural, and Siberia. Includes official documents of civil and military authorities (orders, laws, decrees), as well as information about the interrelationship between the civil population and military structures, and other local historical information.

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Division of Prints and Engravings
 
See the survey of the prerevolutionary photograph collections in Das Russland der Zaren: Photographien von 1839 bis zur Oktoberrevolution (Berlin, 1989). Bibliography of the Division of Engravings see at: http://www.nlr.ru/fonds/prints/biblio....
 

g-653. Petrograd-Leningrad 1920–1930 gg. v fotografiiakh i dokumentakh. Compiled by A.N. Chistikov and L.A. Protsai. 2nd ed. St. Petersburg: Liki Rossii, 2010. 304 p.
1st ed.: 2006. 304 p.

Containes almost 500 photographs held in TsGAKFFD SPb (D–19) and posters from RNB.

g-654. Leningradskie “Okna TASS” v sobranii Rossiiskoi natsional'noi biblioteki, 1941–1945 gg: Katalog. Compiled by I.V. Selivanova and N.N. Shkol'nyi. Edited by E.V. Barkhatova and L.I. Shishova. St. Petersburg: Izd-vo RNB, 1995. 104 p. (Lib: DLC; MH).

g-655. Prigorody i okrestnosti Peterburga-Leningrada XVIII–XX vv.: Katalog graviur i litografii v sobranii Gosudarstvennoi Publichnoi biblioteki im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina. Compiled by L.K. Kashkarova. Leningrad: GPB, 1968. 313 p. [Minkul't RSFSR; GPB] (Lib: IU).

g-656. Katalog plakatov Ispanskoi respubliki (1936–1937 gg.). Compiled by E.M. Teper. Leningrad: GPB, 1967. 136 p. [Minkul't RSFSR; GPB].

g-657. Gravirovannye i litografirovannye vidy Peterburga-Leningrada v sobranii Gosudarstvennoi Publichnoi biblioteki im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina: Katalog. Compiled by L.K. Kashkarova. Leningrad: GPB, 1965. 432 p. [Minkul't RSFSR; GPB].

g-658. Petrogradskie “Okna ROSTA”: Svodnyi katalog. Compiled by A.V. Chistiakova. Leningrad: GPB, 1964. 169 p. [Minkul't RSFSR; GPB] (Lib: MH[mf]).

g-659. Russkii sovetskii lubok v sobranii Gosudarstvennoi Publichnoi biblioteki im. M. E. Saltykova-Shchedrina. 1921–1945: Katalog. Compiled by L.M. Mel'nikova. Leningrad: GPB, 1962. 165 p. [Minkul't RSFSR; GPB].

g-660. Fond graviur kak istochnik izucheniia arkhitektury russkikh gorodov: Sbornik trudov. Edited by O.S. Ostroi. Leningrad: GPB, 1978. 167 p. [Minkul't RSFSR; GPB; Otdel estampov] (Lib: DLC; MH-F; NN).

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RNB Archive
 
See also the brief description and opisi of fond no. 1 "Imperial Public Library" on the website: http://www.nlr.ru/coll/arch/fond1/.
 

g-662. Vakhtina, P.L.; and Vol'ftsun, L.B. “Istoriia arkhiva Rossiiskoi Natsional'noi biblioteki.” Arkheograficheskii ezhegodnik za 1995 god (1997), pp. 120–26. AE za 1996 god (1998), pp. 130–37. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

The first segment presents a survey history of the RNB Archive. The second part provides a substantive survey of holdings, with brief descriptions of the 16 fonds. Of particular note, fond 1 (with 6 opisi) includes the prerevolutionary records (1795–1917), while fond 2 covers the main library records for the period 1918–1992. In the 1970s, a large part of the GPB records designated for permanent preservation (1918–1973) were transferred to what is now TsGALI SPb (fond 97).

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Division of Music Scores and Sound Recordings

g-663. Iusupovskaia kollektsiia: Sobranie pechatnykh not iz fondov Otdela notnykh izdanii i zvukozapisei i Otdela rukopisei: Katalog. Compiled by N.P. Grishkun. Edited by O.V. Rodiukova. St. Petersburg: RNB, 2008. 616 p. [RNB; Otdel notnykh izdanii i zvukozapisei] (Lib: DLC; MH).

Over 1600 European and Russian manuscripts on music, compositions etc. held in the RNB.

g-664. Iusupovskaia kollektsiia: Katalog notnykh izdanii, khraniashchikhsia v Otdele notnykh izdanii i zvukozapisei. Compiled by N.P. Grishkun and A.A. Rachkova. St. Petersburg: RNB, 1994–. [RNB; Otdel notnykh izdanii i zvukozapisei] (Lib: DLC; MH).
        Vol. 1: A–G.
        Vol. 2: H–N.

g-665. * Svodnyi katalog rossiiskikh notnykh izdanii. Compiled by I.F. Bezuglova, T.F. Muzychuk and N.B. Zakhar'ina. Edited by N.A. Efimova and N.V. Talankina. St. Petersburg: Izd-vo Rossiiskoi natsional'noi biblioteki, 1996–. (Lib: DLC; MH [v.1]).
        Vol. 1: XVIII vek. 1996. 179 p. [RNB; ONIiZ]
        Vol. 2 (in 2 books): XIX v. (1-ia chetvert'). 2005. 391 p. 212 p. [RNB; RGB; NMB im. S.I. Taneeva MGK].

Contains information about musical publications of 18th–early 20th centuries held in libraries of Russia and former Russian Empier.

g-667. * Prizhiznennye izdaniia proizvedenii kompozitorov Moguchei kuchki, khraniashchiesia v Gosudarstvennoi publichnoi biblioteke imeni M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina: Katalog. Compiled by O.G. Okhliakovskaia. Edited by I.F. Bezuglova. Leningrad: GPB, 1990. 270 p. + ill. [Ministerstvo kul'tury RSFSR; GPB] (Lib: DLC; MH).

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Fond of Newspapers

g-668. Nesovetskie gazety, 1918–1922: Katalog sobraniia Rossiiskoi natsional'noi biblioteki. Compiled by T.V. Akopian, M.A. Lukovskaia, I.A. Snigireva, et al. Edited by T.V. Akopian, M.A. Lukovskaia, G.V. Mikheeva and I.A. Snigireva. St. Petersburg: RNB, 2002. 168 p. [RNB] (Lib: DLC; MH).
Electronic edition: http://militera.lib.ru/enc/0/pdf/bibl...

The catalogue provides an alphabetical list of newspapers' indexes of personal names and places of publication. It is available together with the microfiche collection. List of Anti-Soviet Newspapers microfiche collection is available on the BRILL website: https://brill.com/abstract/title/1586....

g-669. * Odnodnevnye gazety SSSR, 1917–1984: (po fondam GPB im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina). Compiled by T.V. Akopian, A.A. Egorova, et al. Edited by A.A. Egorova and L.G. Novikova. 3 vols. 2nd ed. New York, N.Y.: Norman Ross publ. 1994. (Lib: DLC).
        Vol. 1: A–Z. 196 p.
        Vol. 2: I–Ia. 246 p.
        Vol. 3: Vspomogatel'nye ukazateli: imennoi; izdaiushchikh kollektivov; geografichesko-khronologicheskii. 214 p.

Serves also as a guide to the microfilm collection entitled: Odnodnevnye gazety SSSR 1917–1983/One-day newspapers, 1917–1983. New York, N.Y.: Norman Ross Pub.; [Moscow]: National Library of Russia, 1993. 46 microfilm reels.

g-669.1. * Odnodnevnye gazety SSSR, 1917–1984: (po fondam GPB im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina). Compiled by T.V. Akopian, A.A. Egorova, et al. Edited by A.A. Egorova and L.G. Novikova. 3 vols. Leningrad: GPB, 1988–1989. (Lib: DLC; MH).

g-670. * Gazety dorevoliutsionnoi Rossii 1703–1917: Katalog. Compiled by T.V. Akopian, S.A. Furman, A.A. Kriazheva, N.P. Sedova and I.A. Snigireva. Edited by T.V. Akopian and M.A. Lukovskaia. St. Petersburg: RNB, 2007. 592 p.

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