Successful Example of Cooperation between the two National Libraries

The review of the Catalogue of books from the Library of King Sigismund II Augustus (1520-1572), stored in the holdings of the National Library of Russia (NLR), published in 2015, presents it as the result of years-long cooperation of bibliographers of the National library of Poland and the NLR. The compilers of the Catalog: from the Russian side - M.I. Tkachenko, on the Polish side - M. Brynda. Highly acclaimed is professional introduction to the Catalogue, considering in detail the history of this book collection and the results of its reconstruction. Additional value to the publication is given by the auxiliary indexes to the catalog, which provide the abi-lity to use it as a reference on the history of books of the 16th century (index of names; index of printers, publishers and booksellers; provenance index, concordance of the obsolete and new shelfmarks and inventory numbers; concordance of shelfmarks from the handwritten inventory of the library in Zhovkva (1699) with the numbers in this catalog). Publication of the Catalogue should be regarded as another step towards the full reconstruction of the Royal Library.

Sigismund II Augustus, Catalogue of Books of the 16th century, the History of Rare Books, Private Library, National Library of Russia, National Library of Poland

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