The Slavonic Library
Rare books in the Slavonic Library
Collection materials in format
Analogue
Digitised
On microfiche
The rare books collection in the Slavonic Library houses works published in the 16th and the 17th centuries as well as the early-18th century.
Collection description
The rare books collection in the Slavonic Library houses works published in the 16th and the 17th centuries as well as the early-18th century. They include works on religion, natural sciences and history as well as fiction. The collection also includes publications containing administrative documents. There are works in Russian, Church Slavonic and Polish.
Its own collection within the rare books are the works of Russian avant-garde futurists published in the 1910s and 1920s. These publications are available in electronic format.
Collection languages
Material type
Books
Accrual status
Completed
Temporal coverage of the collection
beginning of the modern age modern age (turn of the 18th and 19th century to the 20th century) modern times (1900-)Main collection
The Slavonic LibraryParent collection
Books in the Slavonic LibraryCataloguing principles
The description retains the character set and orthography of the publication whenever possible. Cyrillic characters may also be retrieved as transliterated according to the ISO-9 standard (see the transliteration guidelines).
Catalogue information
Paper catalogue made of the collection
Card catalogue made of the collection
The collection has been described in the reference database
The collection has been only partially catalogued
Collection sizes
630
titles of publications