The Guardian Council of the National Library of Belarus appeals to everybody who is interested in the offer to purchase valuable items which are part of Belarusian book heritage for the main library of Belarus.
The return of cultural heritage, which by various reasons turned out abroad, is one of the most important tasks because it contributes to the formation of pride among our contemporaries in the achievements of national culture. This return will be an important event in the life of the Belarusian society and will contribute to the development of librarianship.
On the initiative of the Guardian Council of the National Library there was made a list of book which are not placed in the Library’s stocks and other book collections of the country.
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Title
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Place and date of publication
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Price
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Description
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Collection of black letter books
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1.
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Psalter. 8°.
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Mogilev, 1705.
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700 $
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The first edition, printed for the Old Believers. Until the end of the 18th century the publication of such editions was banned on the territory of the Russian Empire.
Engraving "King David" is hand-painted with brown ink.
Binding: restored, dark brown leather on boards, clasps (2). Handwritten rewritings: semi-uncial with brown ink by one handwriting on the paper of the 19th century.
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Psalter. 4°.
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Supraśl, 1797.
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300 $
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The edition of Old Believers. Binding (the end of the 18th century – the beginning of the 19th century ?): dark brown leather on boards, the spine has a colourless embossing, the fore-edge is dark brown. It was widespread in Gomel Region.
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Psalter. 4°.
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Supraśl, [1780].
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450 $
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The edition of Old Believers. Binding (the end of the 18th century): dark brown leather on boards, the spine has a colourless embossing, the fore-edge is dark brown.
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Service on Holy Saturday and Bright Week. 8°.
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Grodno, 1786. (Paper 1805)
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250 $
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The edition of Old Believers. Binding (the end of the 18th century): dark brown leather on boards, the spine has a colourless embossing, the fore-edge is green.
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Depth-bill, or Commemoration book / engravings of A. Trukhmensky, L. Bunin, G. Tepchegorsky, V. Andreev. 2 °.
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[Moscow], [178–] (handwritten Commemoration book is dated from not earlier than 1787, owner’s remarks in 1787, the date on the white paper "1779").
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1200 $
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The engraved edition. It is a Russian popular print book. Engravings are painted by hand.
Binding is compound (the 19th century): black fabric on cardboard, the spine is of dark brown leather, the upper cover has a blind embossing: Сінодікъ.
The editaion contains owner’s remarks.
The copy is cut.
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6.
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The Passion of the Christ. 4° .
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Supraśl, 1794.
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300 $
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The edition of Old Believers. Binding (the 19th century): dark brown leather on boards.
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Bembus, Petrus [Paulo]. Epistolarum...
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Venetia, 1535.
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2 000 $
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The paletype was published in the early of the 16th century. A rare Western European edition of a famous Italian writer and theorist of literature. It supplements the collection of the paletypes which are hold at the National Library of Belarus. The binding which is typical for that era, parchment on wood, the spine is restored.
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Engravings
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D.O.M. Antistitum Optimo.Georgio Comiti in Lohoysk et Berdidyczew Tyszkiewicz [Headstone of Yuri Tyszkiewicz (1596–1656)]: chromolithograph (size 57х40 cm).
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[Imp. Lemercier a Paris, 1845].
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250 $
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It is a headstone of Tyszkiewicz, the bishop of Vilna, Logoisk and Berdichev, which is located in Vilnius Cathedral. The Chromolithograph of Album de Wilna. The publisher is Y.K. Wilczynsky. The color lithograph with the imitation of marble and gold. The image of the headstone is made by Polish artist Karol Rypinsky (Karol Rypiński (1808–1892). The stocks of the National Library of Belarus don’t contain separately released portraits of this man. This lithograph can fill the lack of these portraits. It represents historical value.
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Jan Chrzanowski, ostatni nachelnik artylerji Litewskiey. Umarl 1824. Dedie Madame Orzeszko nee Chrzanowska: lithograph, portrait without grounds (size 38 х 27 cm).
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[Paris, 1840–1850].
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250 $
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The portrait of the General of rebels John Khranovskaya (Jan Chrzanowski) (1753–1824) in the uniform of the Order of Military Virtutsi. He was a military figure of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, a member of military operations during the second allotment of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1793). He was born in Beresteysk Province, served in the units of Radziwill. The portrait was made by French artist Francois Granier (François Granier) (1793–1867) in the first half of the 19th century.
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The peasants from the outskirts of Grodno (Wiesniacy z okolic Grodna). Black-and-white lithograph.
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The middle of the 19th century.
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250 $
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The image on stone is made by Polish artist Jan Levitsky (Jan Lewicki (1802–1871)). The image of costumes, tools, objects from Belarusian peasant life in Grodno region of the 19th century. The engraving is of ethnographic and historical interest.
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Collection of Old Believer manuscripts
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Irmologion on hook notes. Handwritten manuscript. 4°.
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The end of the 18th – the beginning of the 20th century.
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700 $
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The handwritten manuscript of Old Believers; it is liturgical, singing, hook notes. Handwriting: professional, the script is written with brown ink, titles and service words are with cinnabar. A copyist is not mentioned. There is no foliation. Signatures are digital.
Design: illumination, decorated with birds, and vermilion letters.
It was widespread in Gomel region.
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Irmologion on hook notes. 8°.
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18 century. Filigree "The Head of Clown".
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600 $
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It contains also motets (Matins, Liturgy).
The script is made by several handwritings. It is made with ligature and vermilion litters.
Binding: dark brown leather on boards, the spine has a colourless embossing, the top cover contains the image of "King David".
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Kanonnikov (composite). 4°.
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The middle of the 19th century.
Paper of 1806–1832.
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220 $
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The script is made by several handwritings with brown ink, service words are written with cinnabar and red lead. Illuminations (unprofessional).
It contains owners’ remarks.
The binding is partly made of leather (19 century): blue paper on cardboard, the spine is of dark brown leather and has a blind embossing.
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Collection of Old Believers. Handwritten manuscript. 8°.
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2nd part of the 18th century – beginning of the 19th century (?).
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750 $
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The handwritten manuscript contains descriptions of saints’ lives, their words and teachings. A special interest represents the teachings of three saints Basil of Ceasarea, Gregory of Nazianzus, John Chrystostom, the words of Saints Ephrem the Syrian and Isaac the Syrian, the life of Vasily Novy and Saint Eustace.
The filigree is the emblem of Yaroslavl (?).
The binding is full of leather (earlier?): dark brown leather on boards, binding covers and the spine has a blind embossing, a clasp (1).
Handwriting is professional, the script is made by several handwritings with brown ink, service words, titles are with cinnabar.
The manuscript is decorated with two illuminations (description the life of Vasily Novy and the vision of Gregory of Nazianzus).
It was widespread on the territory of Gomel region.
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