Научная библиотека ОНУ

SUMMARY
The Catalogue presents a description of the collection of the
XVIth century editions preserved in the stacks of the Scientific
Library of the Odessa Mechnikov National University. The
University Library was founded in 1817 as a Library of the Richelieu
Lyceum, which contained a number of antiquarian books. In 1865 the
Lyceum was transformed into Novorossiiski University. In 1868 the
University acquired a collection of books of Romuald Hube, a
famous Polish bibliophile and connoisseur of the history of law. A
great number of rare editions of the XVIth century (statutes,
monuments of common law as well as works of prominent legal
writers of the Middle Ages) makes the precious collection unique.
At the end of the XIXth century the University Library was given
some private collections, the most valuable of them being the library
of the Vorontsov family.
After 1917 the number of the XVIth editions increased and
nowadays the University collections contains about 500 books on
law, history, mathematics, philology, theology, etc. in 12 languages.
All the editions are described de visu according to the
International Standard Bibliographic Description for Older
Monographic Publications (Antiquarian). The descriptions are
arranged in alphabetic order.
The notes contain reproductions of the owners’ records, with the
preservation of peculiarities in their orthography and are dated
approximately, autographs as well as ex librises, labels and stamps.
The Catalogue contains indexes of the titles, publishers and
printers, persons mentioned in the descriptions, owners as well as a
chronological index. It also contains a list of used abbreviations and
abbreviations of the cited bibliographical sources.
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