Collection of Incunabula from the Vasyl Stefanyk National Scientific Library of Ukraine in Lviv: main provenancestock-keeping units
Collection of Incunabula from the Vasyl Stefanyk National Scientific Library of Ukraine in Lviv: main provenancestock-keeping units

Summary/Abstract: The article contains characteristics of incunabula from Vasyl Stefanyk Lviv National Scientific Library of Ukraine (LNSLU) collection. The author provides sources from which the collection of 15th century prints gathered in LNSLU has been obtained: the Ossoliński National Institute, including family deposit collections of the Pawlikowski and Chrzanowski families; the Dzieduszycki family book collection; the library of the People’s House in Lviv including Anton Petrushevich’s collection; the library of Shevchenko Scientific Society; collection of the Byzantine library „Studion” founded by Andrey Sheptytsky, as well as book collections from Basilian monasteries and church libraries. The article describes the history of the dissemination of incunabula in previous centuries, their circulation in the Galician millieu (in the lands under the Austrian partition), gives the names of their owners and characterizes provenance forms.

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