Ein “Ocean von Gelehrsamkeit”

2018 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 402-439
Author(s):  
Alexander Weiß
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Early Church ◽  
University Library ◽  
History Of ◽  
State Library ◽  
The University

Abstract The State Library Berlin and the University Library Heidelberg hold a number of letters which Adolf von Harnack received from the Scottish classicist Sir William Mitchell Ramsay. The correspondence between these two outstanding scholars is of great importance for the history of the disciplines concerned, Classics and History of the Early Church, as well as for the biographies of the two correspondents. In this article Ramsay’s letters are edited with introduction and commentary.

scholarly journals Aufstockung des äthiopischen Handschriftenbestandes zweier deutscher Bibliotheken

Aethiopica ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 172-189
Author(s):  
Veronika Six
Keyword(s):  
Human Being ◽  
Protective Function ◽  
Funeral Rites ◽  
University Library ◽  
Manuscript Tradition ◽  
History Of ◽  
State Library ◽  
The University

Two German libraries which hold collections of Oriental manuscripts again have enlarged their stock of Ethiopian manuscripts. The Berlin State Library: there is a dated Sǝnkǝssar representing the still living manuscript tradition. Without concrete dating (which exists) a cataloguer surely might come to a wrong judgment concerning the date of writing the manuscript, but the date is clear: 20th cent. The second manuscript is a gift from Professor Dr. Walter W. Müller (Marburg): the unbound parchment leaves contain chronicles in Amharic concerning the history of Ethiopia and Šäwa written in the second half of the 19th cent. Then a collection of Hymns (Sälam), a Psalter and a small manuscript containing a text which is used as protection of the soul either during funeral rites or – as it is the case here – as a separate text serving the daily protection of a human being. The second library: the University Library Tübingen with a long tradition of collecting Oriental and Ethiopic manuscripts as well, now has acquired two manuscripts: a dated Mäzmurä Dawit of the second half of the 19th cent. which also represents the manuscript tradition at its best and a parchment scroll containing prayers for protecting a female person, but in which the originally restricted purpose has been changed into a general protective function.

scholarly journals Fundamental Study of the Legendary Bibliophile Edition

2018 ◽  
Vol 67 (6) ◽  
pp. 655-661
Author(s):  
Alexander Y. Samarin
Keyword(s):  
Book Publishing ◽  
The State ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Fundamental Study ◽  
National Union ◽  
Russian State ◽  
History Of ◽  
State Library ◽  
Design Options ◽  
Historical Methods

The article presents the analysis of the new book of the famous bibliophile, researcher and populariser of rare books and bibliophilism, the Chairman of the National Union of Bibliophiles M.V. Seslavinsky about the history of creation, specific aspects of publishing and art design of the famous bibliophilic edition “Cantata” by A.A. Sidorov (Moscow, 1921). Comic verses of the future famous bibliologist and art critic, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR became the text for the first edition of the Russian society of the friends of books (1920—1929), the largest Association of booklovers of the 1920s. Two small runs totalled only 20 copies. The study is based primarily on the copies of “Cantata” preserved in the state collections (the Russian State Library, the State Tretyakov Gallery) and private collections, including the M.V. Seslavinsky’s one. The discovery of new documents on the history of the publication allowed restoring the list of owners of the autographed copies. Using the copy-by-copy method, the researcher succeeded in describing the numerous design options of the rarity of bibliophile publishing. The use of art-historical methods allowed to finally establish that the prototype for the image on the engraving “Bibliophile in 1920” (artist N.B. Baklanov, engraver I.N. Pavlov) was A.N. Benoit, the famous painter. The author introduces into circulation the handwritten poetic epistles of A.A. Sidorov to the owners of the autographed copies and other unique materials about preparation for printing, distribution and provenance of “Cantata”. In general, it can be concluded that M.V. Seslavinsky’s approaches to the analysis of “Cantata” can become basic in the study of bibliophile book as a special cultural phenomenon and trend in book publishing.

scholarly journals Didactic activities of Stefan Vrtel-Wierczyński at the University of Poznań during the Second Polish Republic

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-75
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Gołda
Keyword(s):  
Polish Literature ◽  
University Library ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

This article describes the didactic activities of Stefan Vrtel-Wierczyński, a lecturer in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Poznań. Between 1928 and 1937, the director of the University Library also gave classes in the history of Polish literature, bibliography, bibliology and librarianship, supporting the seminar of the history of Polish literature by Tadeusz Grabowski, Stanisław Dobrzycki and Roman Pollak. The content of his classes is characterised and the most important elements of their organisation are indicated.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
J. V. Fesko
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
The State ◽  
Early Church ◽  
Secondary Literature ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
History Of

This chapter introduces the topic of the history of the early modern Reformed doctrine of the covenant of works. It first defines the doctrine and then provides a state of the question through a survey of relevant secondary literature. After the state of the question, the chapter states the book’s main aim, which is to present an overview of the origins, development, and reception of the covenant of works. In contrast to critics of the doctrine, this book stands within another strand of historiography that sees the covenant of works as a legitimate development of ideas present in the early church, middle ages, and Reformation periods. The chapter then lays out the topics of each of following chapters: the Reformation, Robert Rollock, Jacob Arminius, James Ussher, John Cameron and Edward Leigh, The Westminster Standards, the Formula Consensus Helvetica, Thomas Boston, and the Twentieth Century.

The German Maps at the East Africana Collection, University Library of Dar Es Salaam

2006 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 495-498
Author(s):  
Karin Pallaver
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Dar Es Salaam ◽  
General Information ◽  
Reading Room ◽  
Colonial Administration ◽  
Central Administration ◽  
University Library ◽  
National Archives ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

The documents originated by the German colonial administration in German East Africa are located in two main archives: the Tanzania National Archives in Dar es Salaam, where they are identified under the name “German Records,” and the Bundesarchiv in Berlin, where they are collected under the classification R 1001. This note aims to provide some general information regarding a part of the German Records, referred to as “German Maps,” which is collected at the University Library of Dar es Salaam.The German Records are a part of the holdings of the Tanzania National Archives, which also include the records of the British administration and various documents of the post-independence period. The German Records are a very well-known source for the history of the German presence in East Africa and they can be divided in two main categories: the documents of the Central Administration, cataloged with the numbers G 1-G 65, and the Private Archives, with the classification G 66-G 86. These records are very well cataloged and easily accessible thanks to the work of archival reorganization done by Peter Geissler between 1967 and 1969. His work was published in 1973 in a two-volume guide with the title Das Deutsch-Ostafrika-Archiv: Inventar der Abteilung “German Records” in Nationalarchiv der vereinigten Republik Tansania, Dar es Salaam. This guide offers a very useful overview of the records of the German colonial administration and is available for consultation in the Reading Room of the Tanzania National Archives. Also available in the Reading Room is a manual catalog which, in some cases, could be helpful in finding some documents that, owing to print errors in the edited catalog, have become difficult to find.

scholarly journals Formation of Collections of Early Printed Books in Museums and Libraries: What Does “Acquisition Data” Say?

2018 ◽  
Vol 67 (5) ◽  
pp. 523-531
Author(s):  
Vladimir P. Bogdanov
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
The State ◽  
State University ◽  
Great Contribution ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
History Of ◽  
Private Donations ◽  
State Library ◽  
Moscow State University ◽  
The Church

The article is devoted to the history of acquisition of the municipal and state repositories with early printed Cyrillic monuments in the 19th — 21st centuries. The aim of the research is to show the process of acquisition of the collections of state museums, archives and libraries of Russia. The author uses descriptions of the books from the catalogues published with the participation or under the guidance of experts in archaeography of the Moscow State University (MSU) named after M.V. Lomonosov. They cover the collections of the MSU Scientific Library, as well as the collections of museums, archives and libraries of Tver, Yaroslavl and Perm Regions, as well as the State Historical, Architectural and Ethnographic Museum-Reserve “Kizhi”.As a total there are involved 3953 descriptions containing information about the date and source of acquisition of the books to the repositories. The author concluded that archaeographic expeditions made a great contribution to the replenishment of the collections of the early printed Cyrillic monuments (860 books), but this contribution was not decisive. The most part of the unique monuments got into repositories as private donations or were purchased in old book shops, or during the expropriation of Church valuables. Only in the 1920s there were obtained 1068 books from the Church libraries.Significant event in the life of repositories in the twentieth century was more or less permanent redistribution of stocks between the major collections. The most part of the early printed Cyrillic books (almost half of them already introduced into scientific discourse), preserved now in the Scientific Library of the Moscow State University, was obtained not in the course of expeditionary work, but as a result of transfer of the books from the V.I. Lenin State Library of the USSR, the State Public Historical Library of Russia, the State Historical Museum and the Moscow Kremlin Museums.

scholarly journals "The summary of the Crimea`s history" from its origins, under the Abbasids, to Mengli Geray (870/1465). Part 2

2021 ◽  
pp. 199-210
Author(s):  
Refat R. Abduzhemilev ◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
University Library ◽  
Scientific World ◽  
The Crimea ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

Recently, a new source on the history of Crimean Khanate and the Golden Horde has received open access for the scientific world. The digitized manuscript is dated 1701 and has the title “Résumé de l’histoire de Crimée” des origines, sous les Abbassides, à Mengli Giray (870/1465) (“The summary of the Crimea’s history” from its origins, under the Abbasids, to Mengli Geray, 870/1465). The location of the manuscript is the University Library of Languages ​​and Civilizations (Bibliothèque universitaire des langues et civilizations). The source is presented in the collection of the Ottoman Turkish manuscripts (Fonds de manuscrits turcs ottomans) under the code MS.TURC.110g.

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