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Rossiiskaia gosudarstvennaia biblioteka (RGB)

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Archives of Russia (2000), pp. 669-84; Arkhivy Rossii (1997), pp. 517-27; Biblioteki: Putevoditel' (1996), pp. 19-26; Mos. lit. arkhivy (1996), pp. 20-21, 29-32; GAF Spravochnik (1991), pp. 8-14; PKG M&L (1972), pp. 263-74; Sup. 1 (1976), pp. 87-100; G&K Spravochnik (1983), pp. 118-38 and 381-86.

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g-1. Safronova, Galina Fedorovna. “Fondy i deiatel'nost' Otdela rukopisei Gosudarstvennoi biblioteki SSSR im. V.I. Lenina: Bibliografiia 1836–1962.” Zapiski Otdela rukopisei [GBL] 25 (1962), pp. 487–520. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH) [IDC-in R-10,287].

Provides an alphabetical index for the collections of early manuscript books (pp. 513–15) and for the archival fonds (pp. 515–19), with reference to current fond numbers and bibliographic information on published descriptions of individual fonds and collections. Gives a bibliographic survey of reference and other literature on the Manuscript Division. Includes analysis of Zapiski OR from 1938 to 1961. Unfortunately this survey has not been superseded, although the information provided is obviously outdated.

g-1.1. Dovgallo, Galina Ivanovna. “Spravochnyi apparat Otdela rukopisei.” Zapiski Otdela rukopisei [GBL] 25 (1962), pp. 464–86. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH) [IDC-in R-10,287].

g-2. Kratkii ukazatel' arkhivnykh fondov Otdela rukopisei. Compiled by E.N. Konshina and N.K. Shvabe. Edited by E.N. Konshina and P.A. Zaionchkovskii. Moscow: GBL, 1948. 253 p. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH) [IDC-R-11,007].

Includes information on the fonds accessioned up to the year 1945, arranged alphabetically according to the creating agency. Since the Index used the old system of alphabetical cataloging, there is no information on the fond numbers which are currently in use.

g-3. Vospominaniia i dnevniki XVIII–XX vv.: Ukazatel' rukopisei. Edited by S.V. Zhitomirskaia. Moscow: “Kniga”, 1976. 621 p. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

The directory covers memoir sources from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, including the Soviet period, with auxiliary indexes. See also the earlier 1951 guide (g–4). A new index of the manuscript fonds, which were not included in previous editions (g–3 and g–4), is being prepared for publication.

g-4. Ukazatel' vospominanii, dnevnikov i putevykh zapisok XVIII–XIX vv. (iz fondov Otdela rukopisei). Compiled by S.V. Zhitomirskaia, et al. Edited by E.N. Konshina and P.A. Zaionchkovskii. Moscow: GBL, 1951. 224 p. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH) [IDC-R-11,008].

There is a copy of this guide with corrections in the reading room of the Manuscript Division. See also the corrected and supplemented edition (g–3).

g-5. Zhitomirskaia, Sarra Vladimirovna. “Zapadnoe srednevekov'e v rukopisiakh Gosudarstvennoi biblioteki SSSR im. V.I. Lenina.” Srednie veka 10 (1957), pp. 285–305. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

g-8. Rukopisnye sobraniia Gosudarstvennoi biblioteki SSSR im. V.I. Lenina: Ukazatel'. Edited by I.D. Rykov, L.V. Tiganova, N.B. Tikhomirov, et al. Moscow, 1983–. [GBL] (Lib: DDO; DLC; IU; MH).
        Vol. 1, pt. 1: (1862–1916). 1983. 254 p.; pt. 2: (1917–1947). 1986. 381 p.; pt. 3: (1948–1979). 1996. 511 p.

The first part of volume 1 contains brief information on the collections of early Slavonic and Rus' manuscripts acquired by the Rumiantsev Public Museum and subsequently the Manuscript Division between 1862 and 1979. The second part of volume 1 contains historical information on the collections of manuscript books accessioned between 1917 and 1947, while the third part covers collections accessioned from 1948 through 1979. In all cases, data are provided on the history of the collections, their creating agencies, and the general content and present arrangement of the collections themselves. Provides full bibliography of surveys, earlier catalogues, and manuscript descriptions and related reference or scholarly literature. Three further volumes of the directory are planned for publication together with auxiliary reference apparatus to volume 1.

g-10. Zapiski Otdela rukopisei [GBL]. (Zapiski OR). Moscow, 1938–. 54 vols. through 2012. [GBL] (Lib: DLC; IU; MH) [IDC-R-10,287(v.1-36)].

Individual volumes contain surveys of manuscript collections and archival materials held by the division, as well as documentary publications. An analysis of contents of previous volumes through 1962 is included in the article by Safronova (g–1).

g-11. Trudy Publichnoi biblioteki SSSR im. V.I. Lenina. Moscow, 1928–1939. [GBL] (Lib: DLC; IU; MH) [IDC-R-11,044].
        Index: Articles in this series relating to the MS Division, are listed in g–1.

Before publication of the series Zapiski Otdela rukopisei (from 1939—see g–10), this series contained some descriptions of the manuscripts and information on the publications of the Manuscript Division. The postwar continuation of the series predominantly covers other divisions of the library.

g-12. Trudy Gosudarstvennogo Rumiantsevskogo muzeia. Moscow, 1923–1924. (Lib: IU; MH) [IDC-R-11,042].

This series predominantly consists of publications of literary manuscripts and correspondence then held by the Rumiantsev Museum, including Pushkin's diary and the correspondence of K.P. Pobedonostsev and V.O. Kliuchevskii.

g-13. Otchet Moskovskogo Publichnogo i Rumiantsevskogo muzeev za 1864 god–[—. . . za 1915 god]. 34 vols. St. Petersburg, 1864–1917. Irregular. Titles vary. (Lib: IU; MH) [IDC-R-11,043].
        “Otchet Rumiantsevskogo muzeia za 1916–1922 gg.” 173 p. Typescript.
        Index: For a survey of the contents, see g–1.

The first two issues (through 1865) were published in St. Petersburg. From 1870 to 1894 volumes came out three times a year; from 1895 to 1915 it was published annually. The volumes contain lengthy descriptions of the manuscript holdings, and in some cases catalogues and published texts. The last issue, covering the years 1916–1922, preserved only in typescript form, lists manuscript receipts for those years.

g-18. Rossiiskaia gosudarstvennaia biblioteka: stranitsy istorii (60–90-e gody XX veka). Compiled by M.I. Dvorkina. Edited by E.V. Nikonorova, et al. Moskva: RGB, 2003. 198 p. Special anniversary supplement to journal Bibliotekovedenie. (Lib: DLC).

History and description of divisions of the Library. See articles:
Artamonova, S.N. “Iz istorii otdela izoizdanii,” pp. 23–35;
Kozlova, A.V. Kotel'nikova, N.E. “Otdel kartograficheskikh izdanii,” pp. 46–56;
Molchanov, V.F. “Rukopisnyi fond RGB vo vtoroi polovine XX stoletiia,” pp. 76–87;
Ryzhak, N.V. Makarevich, E.V. “Otdel literatury russkogo zarubezh'ia,” pp. 93–99;
Petrova, L.N. Pokrovskaia, Z.A. Iatsunok, E.I. “Nauchno-issledovatel'skii otdel redkikh knig (Muzei knigi),” pp. 118–129.

g-19. Istoriia Gosudarstvennoi Ordena Lenina biblioteki SSSR im. V.I. Lenina za 100 let, 1862–1962. Edited by F.S. Abrikosova, K.R. Kamenetskaia and E.V. Seglin. Moscow: Izd. “Biblioteki Moskvy”, 1962. 279 p. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH) [IDC-R-11,001].

This jubilee edition contains an exceptionally helpful chapter devoted to the Manuscript Division by V.G. Zimina, “Otdel rukopisei za 100 let” (pp. 246–71); footnote citations provide a basic bibliography of the division's publications, including earlier published catalogues and inventories. Coverage of the development of other library divisions is included in the general historical text.

g-20. Sotrudniki Rossiiskoi gosudarstvennoi biblioteki: Biobibliograficheskii slovar'. Moskovskii publichnyi i Rumiantsevskii muzei, 1862–1917. Compiled by L.M. Koval' and A.V. Teplitskaia. Edited by V.A. Fokeev. Moscow: Pashkov dom, 2003. 222 p. [RGB; Muzei istorii RGB].

g-21. Piatidesiatiletie Rumiantsevskogo muzeia v Moskve, 1862–1912: Istoricheskii ocherk. Moscow: T-vo skoropechatni A.A. Levenson, 1913. 40, xliii, 41–194 p. + plates. (Lib: MH-F) [IDC-R-11,124].

An elaborately published anniversary folio edition with plates reproducing pages from illuminated manuscripts and title pages of early books. See the lengthy section devoted to the history of the Manuscript Division by G.P. Georgievskii, “Otdelenie rukopisei Imperatorskogo Moskovskogo i Rumiantsevskogo muzeia” (pp. 41–78), with mention of published catalogues for some of the important collections.

g-22. Gosudarstvennyi Rumiantsevskii muzei: Putevoditel'. 2 vols. Moscow/Petrograd, 1923. (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-11,123].
        Vol. 1: Biblioteka. 237 p.

The lengthy section devoted to the Manuscript Division (pp. 159–237) surveys its prerevolutionary development, with mention of published catalogues for some of the important collections. See also the extensive list of manuscript receipts during the 1916–1922 period by G.P. Georgievskii in the final issue of the prerevolutionary series of reports (g–13) available in typescript in the manuscript division reading room.

g-23. Kozlov, Vladimir Petrovich. “K istorii komplektovaniia Rumiantsevskogo sobraniia russkikh i slavianskikh rukopisei.” Zapiski Otdela rukopisei [GBL] 41 (1980), pp. 4–29. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

Provides a history of the original holdings of the prerevolutionary manuscript collection brought together by Nikolai Petrovich Rumiantsev (1754–1826). See also the Vostokov catalogue of this collection published while it was held in St. Petersburg (g–47).

g-24. Golos proshlogo: Gosudarstvennaia Ordena Lenina biblioteka SSSR im. V.I. Lenina v gody Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny. Compiled by L.M. Illarionova, L.M. Koval', M.V. Volkova, et al. Edited by A.I. Cherniak. Moscow: GBL, 1991. 135 p. [GBL; Muzei knigi; Muzei istorii GBL] (Lib: DLC; MH).

Includes an article by M.V. Volkova, “Iz Arkhiva Gosudarstvennoi biblioteki SSSR im. V.I. Lenina: Obzor materialov Arkhiva Gosudarstvennoi biblioteki SSSR im. V.I. Lenina o rabote Biblioteki v gody Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny,” pp. 89–121.

g-28. Klepikov, Sokrat Aleksandrovich. “Obzor fondov izobrazitel'nykh materialov Gosudarstvennoi biblioteki im. V.I. Lenina.” Trudy GBL 5 (1981), pp. 230–68. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

A survey of holdings in the GBL Graphics Division.

g-30. Rossiiskaia gosudarstvennaia biblioteka: Bibliograficheskii ukazatel', 2001–2005: raboty sotrudnikov, izdaniia RGB, literatura o biblioteke. Compiled by T.I. Briskman. Moscow: Pashkov dom, 2008. 288 p. [RGB] (Lib: DLC; MH; RGB).

g-31. Rossiiskaia gosudarstvennaia biblioteka (Gosudarstvennaia biblioteka SSSR imeni V.I. Lenina): bibliograficheskii ukazatel', 1986–2000. Compiled by T.E. Ksenzova. Moskva: Pashkov dom, 2004. 411 p. (Lib: DLC; RGB).

g-32. Gosudarstvennaia Ordena Lenina Biblioteka SSSR im. V.I. Lenina: Bibliograficheskii ukazatel'. Compiled by M.E. Ekshtein, M.A. Ermolaeva and M.S. Starshinova. Edited by T.E. Ksenzova. 2 vols. Moscow, 1986. [GBL] (Lib: DLC; MH).
        Vol. 1: Literatura o Biblioteke (1862–1985 gg.). 324 p.
        Vol. 2: Izdaniia Biblioteki (1962–1985 gg.). 190 p.

A comprehensive bibliography of library publications, including articles with separate rubrics devoted to reference literature and other publications regarding various divisions. Only covers publications by library staff.

Finding Aids —  General — Unpublished:

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g-35. “Sobraniia Otdela rukopisei (kratkie obzory).” Compiled by G.I. Dovgallo, I.M. Kudriavtsev and M.N. Kuz'minskaia. Moscow, 1958. 284 p. Typescript. [GBL].

Contains brief surveys of 48 collections of Slavic manuscripts acquired up to the year 1958, with data regarding published catalogues, descriptions, and unpublished inventories. A large part of the coverage has been updated in the published directory of manuscript collections (g–2). Available in the reading room.

g-36. Pozdneev, A. “Rukopisnye sborniki pesen v sobraniiakh Otdela rukopisei.” Moscow, n.d. 49 p. Typescript. [GBL].

A detailed scholarly description of 25 choral convolutes from eight collections and from the fonds of the Manuscript Division of the Russian State Library (including the Museum Collection and the Undol'skii Collection). Available in the reading room.

g-37. Zhitomirskaia, Sarra Vladimirovna. “Sobranie rukopisei na inostrannykh iazykakh.” Moscow, n. d. 50 p. Typescript.

A survey of the collection of manuscripts in foreign languages from individual acquisitions (except Oriental and Greek manuscripts, which are assigned to separate collections). Available in the reading room.

g-38. “Kratkii ukazatel' arkhivnykh fondov Otdela rukopisei: A–Ia.” Moscow, n. d. 9 folders.

A series of xerox copies of published information on archival materials held in the division, assembled from various sources (but mainly from the Zapiski OR), arranged alphabetically, and varied in volume and content. Available in the reading room.

g-39. “Ukazatel' fondov lichnogo proiskhozhdeniia po vidam deiatel'nosti fondoobrazovatelei.” Moscow, n. d. 10 folders.

A series of xerox copies of published information on personal papers held in the Manuscript Division. Assembled from various sources (mainly from Zapiski OR), and varied in volume, quality, and content, it is arranged according to the type of activity of the creating individual. Available in the reading room.

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Categories:
• Slavonic-Rus' Manuscripts
      • Parchment Manuscripts
      • Collections from the Rumiantsev Museum
      • Collections of the Imperial Society of Russian History an Antiquities
      • Moscow Theological Academy/Trinity-St. Sergius Monastery Collection
      • Moscow Theological Academy Collection
      • Joseph of Volokolamsk Monastery Collection
      • Optina Vvedensk Monastery Collection
      • Vologda Collection
• Oriental Manuscripts
      • Chinese Manuscripts
      • Hebrew Manuscripts
      • Japanese Manuscripts
• Archival Materials
• Personal Papers
• Division of Rare Books
• Division of Graphic Imprints
• Division of the Literature of Russian Abroad
• Division of Music Imprints and Sound Recordings
• Personal Libraries
• Special Trophy Collection

g-45. Tikhomirov, N.B. “Katalog russkikh i slavianskikh pergamennykh rukopisei XI–XII vekov, khraniashchikhsia v Otdele rukopisei Gosudarstvennoi biblioteki SSSR im. V.I. Lenina.” Zapiski Otdela rukopisei [GBL], 1962–1972. [IDC-R-11,183; also in IDC-R-10,287 mf. 92-98, 106-09, 118-21, 129-34].
        Part 1: “XI vek.” Ibid. 25 (1962): 153–83.
        Part 2: “XII vek.” Ibid. 27 (1965): 93–148.
        Part 3: “Dopolnitel'naia (XII i kon. XII–nach. XIII vv.).” Ibid. 30 (1968): 87–156.
        Part 4: “Dopolnitel'naia.” Ibid. 33 (1972): 213–20.

A detailed catalogue of eleventh- and twelfth-century Slavic manuscripts on parchment in the Division.

g-46. Muzeinoe sobranie rukopisei: Opisanie. Edited by I.M. Kudriavtsev, et al. Moscow, 1961–. [GBL] (Lib: DLC; MH).
        Vol. 1: No. 1–3005. M. 1961. 524 p. [IDC-R-10,340]
        Vol. 2: No. 3006–4500. M. 1997. 496 p. + plates.
        Vol. 3: “No. 4501–6500.” Typescript.
        Vol. 4: “No. 6501–8461.” Typescript.
        Vol. 5: “No. 8462–9500.” Typescript.
        Vol. 6: “No. 9501–10659.” Typescript.
        Vol. 7: “No. 10660–11092.” Typescript.

The first two published volumes provide scholarly descriptions of Slavonic-Rus' manuscripts received by the Rumiantsev Museum and Library through 1922, arranged and numbered by year of acccession. The manuscripts described are all catalogued as part of the Museum Collection (fond 178). Note the additional volumes 3–7 that are available in typescript form in the division.

g-47. Vostokov, Aleksandr Khristoforovich. Opisanie russkikh i slovenskikh rukopisei Rumiantsevskogo muzeuma. St. Petersburg: Tip. Imp. Akademii nauk, 1842. iii, 899, 3 p. (Lib: DDO; MH) [IDC-R-5928].

An initial published description of 473 predominantly early Slavonic-Rus' manuscripts and historical documentation from the original collection of Count Nikolai Petrovich Rumiantsev (1754–1826), acquired by the Rumiantsev Museum when it was still in St. Petersburg (now fond 256). See also the history of the formation of the Rumiantsev' collection by V.P. Kozlov (g–23).

g-48. Viktorov, Aleksei Egorovich. Sobranie rukopisei I.D. Beliaeva. Moscow: Tip. E. Lissner i Iu. Roman, 1881. 127 p. (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-7038].

Describes 540 manuscripts—most relating to Russian legal history—in the collection of Ivan Dmitrievich Beliaev (fond 29), and the Beliaev archive (fond 27).

g-49. Lebedev, Dmitrii Petrovich. Sobranie istoriko-iuridicheskikh aktov I.D. Beliaeva. Moscow: Tip. E. Lissner i Iu. Roman, 1881. 95 p. (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-11,188].

Describes legal documents dating from 1404 to the end of the eighteenth century in the collection of Ivan Dmitrievich Beliaev (fond 28).

g-50. Georgievskii, Grigorii Petrovich. Rukopisi T.F. Bol'shakova, khraniashchiesia v Imperatorskom Moskovskom i Rumiantsevskom muzee. Petrograd: Izd. Otdeleniia russkogo iazyka i slovesnosti Imp. AN, 1915. viii, 455 p. (Lib: DLC) [IDC-R-7291].

Describes 435 manuscripts from the Tikhon Fedorovich Bol'shakov (1804–1873) collection now in fond 37.

g-51. Viktorov, Aleksei Egorovich. Sobranie rukopisei V.I. Grigorovicha. Moscow: Tip. M.N. Lavrova, 1879. 60, iv p. (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-7037].
        Earlier ed. in Otchet Moskovskogo Publichnogo i Rumiantsevskogo museev za 1876–1878 gg. pp. 1–60. [in IDC-R-11,043 mf. 15-16].

Describes 60 Slavic manuscripts (pp. 3–45), four foreign manuscripts (3 Greek and 1 Rumanian), and 12 items of personal and scholarly manuscripts (pp. 50–60) of Viktor Ivanovich Grigorovich (1815–1876), now in fond 87. The supplemental four pages provide a detailed table of contents listing each manuscript.

g-52. Sobranie I.Ia. Lukashevicha i N.A. Markevicha: Opisanie. Compiled by I.N. Shchapov. Edited by I.M. Kudriavtsev. Moscow: GBL, 1959. 144 p. (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-R-11,005].

A description of manuscripts collected by the gentry historian and Slavic specialist Ivan Iakolevich Lukashevich (1811–1860) and the historian and ethnographer Mykola Andriiovych Markevych (Nikolai Andreevich Markevich) (1804–1860) both acquired from Ukraine.

g-53. Otkrovenie sv. Ioanna Bogoslova v mirovoi knizhnioi traditsii: Vystavka/The Revelation of St. John the Theologian in the World Book Tradition: Exhibition. Compiled by T.V. Anisimova, T.A. Dolgodrova, A.A. Guseva, et al. Edited by A.A. Turilov. Moscow: “Indrik”, 1995. 199 p. [Posol'stvo Gretsii v Moskve; RGB].

A scholarly catalogue describing apocryphal manuscripts and early printed books in a special exhibition, centering around the Biblical Book of Revelations of St. John the Apostle, sponsored by the Greek Embassy in Moscow. The elaborately printed catalogue gives scholarly descriptions of 13 Greek and Latin manuscripts, 63 manuscripts in the Slavonic-Rus' and Old Believer traditions, 25 incunabula and early printed books, and 12 later manuscript commentaries (18th–19th cc.). Of special interest, several especially notable German “trophy” manuscripts and early books were exhibited and described for the first time, including the 1454/1455 Gutenberg Bible acquired in 1945 from the Leipzig Museum of the Book and Printing.

g-54. Mukhanov, Pavel Aleksandrovich. Katalog aktov XIV, XV, XVI i XVII vv. prinesennykh v dar Moskovskomu Publichnomu muzeiu Pavlom Aleksandrovichem Mukhanovym. St. Petersburg: Tip. Edvarda Pratsa, 1865. 26 p. (Lib: DLC; NN) [IDC-R-11,187].

Describes documents from the fourteenth through the seventeenth century from the former Mukhanov Museum, now part of the Pavel Aleksandrovich Mukhanov (1798–1871) collection (fond 191).

g-55. Katalog slaviano-russkikh rukopisei, priobretennykh Moskovskim Publichnym i Rumiantsevskim muzeiami v 1868 g. posle D.V. Piskareva. Compiled by A.E. Viktorov. Moscow: Tip. V. Got'e, 1871. 69 p. (Lib: MH; NNC) [IDC-R-11,190].
        Earlier ed. as an appendix to Otchet Moskovskogo Publichnogo i Rumiantsevskogo muzeev za 1867–1869 gg. [in IDC-R-11,043 mf. 5-8].

Describes 204 manuscripts from the collection of D.V. Piskarev (fond 228).

g-56. Viktorov, Aleksei Egorovich. Sobranie rukopisei P.I. Sevast'ianova. Moscow: Tip. E. Lissner i Iu. Roman, 1881. 120 p. (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-7036].

Describes Greek manuscripts (pp. 1–34), many of which were collected at Mount Athos, 52 Slavic manuscripts (pp. 35–79), and the personal papers of Petr Ivanovich Sevast'ianov (1863–1907) (pp. 105–16), all originally acquired by the Rumiantsev Museum in 1874; also describes some reproductions from Greek and Slavic manuscripts (pp. 78–104). All now comprise fond 270.

g-57. Georgievskii, Grigorii Petrovich. Sobranie N.S. Tikhonravova. I: Rukopisi. Moscow: Tip. A. Snegireva, 1913. 127 p. (Lib: MH; NNC) [IDC-R-11,192].
        Earlier ed. in Otchet Moskovskogo Publichnogo i Rumiantsevskogo muzeev za 1912 g. with the title “Prirashcheniia otdeleniia: (Sobranie akademika N.S. Tikhonravova). Katalog rukopisei.’ [in IDC-R-11,043 mf. 62-66].

Describes 435 manuscripts from the collection of Nikolai Savvich Tikhonravov (1832–1893) (fond 299).

g-58. Undol'skii, Viktor Mikhailovich. Slaviano-russkie rukopisi V.M. Undol'skogo, opisannye samim sostavitelem i byvshim vladel'tsem sobraniia. No. 1 po No. 579. Moscow: Izd. Moskovskogo Publichnogo i Rumiantsevskogo muzeev, 1870. iv, 469, 65 p. With appendix by A.E. Viktorov. (Lib: MH; NNC) [IDC-R-7039].

Describes the first 579 manuscripts in the impressive collection of Viktor Mikhailovich Undol'skii (1815–1864) (fond 310). The appendix by Viktorov includes a bibliographical survey of the collection including references to some unpublished studies and personal papers of Undol'skii.

g-62. Biblioteka Imperatorskogo Obshchestva istorii i drevnostei rossiiskikh. 2 vols. Moscow, 1845, 1906. (Lib: MH (vol. 1)).
        Vol. 1: Compiled by P.M. Stroev. Moscow: Tip. A. Semena, 1845. vii, 354 p. [IDC-R-4766]
        Vol. 2: Opisanie rukopisei i bumag, postupivshikh s 1846 po 1902 g. Compiled by E.I. Sokolov. Moscow, 1906. viii, 939 p. [IDC-R-7332] Also published in ChOIDR 216 (1906, no. 1). [in IDC-1369 mf. 2824-40].

The first volume describes 335 early Slavic manuscripts and other rare books in the collection of the Society of Russian History and Antiquities now housed in RGB (fond 205). The second volume describes 606 Slavic manuscripts and other documents acquired by the library of the Society of Russian History and Antiquities, now in RGB (fonds 204 and 205) and the archive of the Society (fond 203).

g-63. Golubtsova, E.I.; and Oshanina, E.N. “Kollektsiia Moskovskogo Obshchestva istorii i drevnostei rossiiskikh.” Zapiski Otdela rukopisei [GBL] 13 (1952), pp. 3–42. [IDC-in R-10,287 mf. 27-32].

Describes the Slavic manuscript collection of the prerevolutionary Society of Russian History and Antiquities now in fond 204, with mention of other holdings from the Society (fonds 203 and 205).

g-65. Leonid, Arkhimandrit. Svedeniia o slavianskikh rukopisiakh, postupivshikh iz knigokhranilishcha Sviato-Troitskoi Sergievoi lavry v biblioteku Troitskoi dukhovnoi seminarii v 1747 g. (nyne nakhodiashchikhsia v biblioteke Moskovskoi dukhovnoi akademii). 2 vols. Moscow: Universitetskaia tip. (M. Katkov), 1884–1887. 167 p.; 375, 27, vii p. (Lib: NNC) [IDC-R-7295].
        Earlier ed.: serially in ChOIDR 124, no. 1 (1883), pp. 1–80; 125, no. 2 (1883), pp. 81–107; 127, no. 4 (1883), pp. 1–112; 130, no. 3 (1884), pp. 113–264; 131, no. 4 (1884), pp. 265–96; 132, no. 1 (1885), pp. 291–375. [in IDC-1369].

Describes 164 Slavic manuscripts from the Moscow Ecclesiastical Academy collection from Sergiev Posad (former Zagorsk) now in fond 173. The index and list of titles, initially published separately in ChOIDR 138, no. 3 (1886), pp. i–viii, 1–27, under the title “Oglavlenie i ukazatel' k Svedeniiam.” by S.A. Belokurov, is included in the separate edition.

g-66. Leonid, Arkhimandrit. Slavianskie rukopisi, khraniashchiesia v riznitse Sviato-Troitskoi Sergievoi lavry. Moscow: Izd. Imp. Obshchestva istorii i drevnostei rossiiskikh, 1881. 49 p. (Lib: DDO) [IDC-R-7297].
        Earlier ed. in ChOIDR 115, no. 4 (1880), pp. 1–49 [in IDC-1369 mf. 1592-1604).

Describes 22 Slavic manuscripts from the Trinity-St. Sergius monastery (Troitse-Sergieva Lavra) sacristy now in the Manuscript Division (fond 304 III).

g-67. Arsenii, Ieromonakh (Stadnitskii, Avksentii Georgievich); and Ilarii, Ieromonakh. Opisanie slavianskikh rukopisei biblioteki Sviato-Troitskoi Sergievoi lavry. 3 vols. Moscow, 1878–1879. xix, 352 p.; 240 p.; 267, 44 p. [IDC-R-7057].
        Earlier ed. in ChOIDR 105, no.2 (1878), pp. i–xix, 1–352; 107, no. 4 (1878), pp. 1–240; 109, no. 2 (1879), pp. 1–267, 1–44.

Describes 823 Slavic manuscripts from the basic Trinity-St. Sergius monastery (Troitse-Sergieva Lavra) collection from Sergiev Posad (former Zagorsk) now in RGB (fond 304). The final 44 pages constitute an index for the three volumes.

g-68. Muretov, S.D. Opisanie rukopisei biblioteki Vifanskoi dukhovnoi seminarii. Moscow, 1897. xii, 239 p. [IDC-R-7305].
        Earlier ed. in ChOIDR 182, no. 3, pt. 2 (1897), pp. i–xii, 1–84; 183, no. 4 (1897), pp. 85–239.

Describes 172 early Slavic manuscripts from the Vifan Ecclesiastical Seminary which were later absorbed by the collection of the Moscow Ecclesiastical Academy from Zagorsk (now Sergiev Posad), but now constitute a separate fond (no. 556) in RGB.

g-70. Iosif, Ieromonakh. Opis' rukopisei, perenesennykh iz biblioteki Iosifova monastyria v biblioteku Moskovskoi dukhovnoi akademii. Moscow, 1882. 315 + xiv p. (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-7108].
        Earlier ed. in ChOIDR 118, no. 3 (1881), 315 + xiv p. [in IDC-1369 mf. 1634-41].

Descibes 236 Slavic manuscripts from the Joseph of Volokolamsk (Iosifo-Volokolamskii) minastery. These represent the most valuable manuscripts (approximately one-third) of the original collection, namely those which in 1859 were transferred to the Moscow Ecclesiastical Academy library and are now in RGB (fond 113). Includes index of personal names.

g-72. Stroev, Pavel Mikhailovich. Opisanie rukopisei monastyrei Volokolamskogo, Novyi Ierusalim, Savvina Storozhevskogo i Pafnutieva Borovskogo. St. Petersburg, 1891. xviii, 343 p. “Obshchestvo liubitelei drevnei pis'mennosti [Izdanie].” (Lib: DDO; MH) [IDC-R-7337; also in IDC-1030 mf. 339-405].

Provides short description (pp. 1–236) of 690 manuscripts from the Volokolamsk monastery prepared by Stroev in 1817, before the collection was split up; edited with a preface and published posthumously by Nikolai Platonovich Barsukov (1838–1906). Numbers given are Stroev's own and bear no relationship to old or new numbers of the manuscripts. Of the manuscripts covered in this volume, 237—the most valuable third of those from the Volokolamsk monastery—are now in RGB (fond 113). Most of the rest of the Volokolamsk collection and some of the manuscripts described by Stroev from other institutions are now in GIM, but others are dispersed.

g-75. Leonid, Arkhimandrit. “Obozrenie rukopisei i staropechatnykh knig v knigokhranilishchakh monastyrei, gorodskikh i sel'skikh tserkvei Kaluzhskoi eparkhii.” ChOIDR 55 (1865), no. 4, pt. 5, pp. 1–115. [IDC-R-11,189; also in IDC-1369 mf. 846-76].

Describes 22 manuscripts from the collection of the Optina Vvedensk monastery near Kaluga, now in the Manuscript Division (fond 214). Some of the other manuscripts described remain in the Kaluga oblast museum, and a few from the Borovskii-Pafnutiev monastery are in GIM.

g-78. Strumenskii, M. Ukazets starinnykh rukopisei: Katalog otdela biblioteki. Vologda: Tip. Soiuza severnykh kooperativnykh soiuzov, 1919. 28 p. (Lib: NN) [IDC-R-11,147].

Lists 250 early Slavic manuscripts, most of which are now in the Vologda collection (fond 354) acquired from both the oblast library (196 manuscripts) and the Vologda regional museum (32 manuscripts); some of those described, however, remain in the local Vologda Museum.

g-80. Melnalksnis, Arnold Ivanovich. Opisanie kitaiskikh rukopisnykh knig i kart iz sobraniia K.A. Skachkova. Moscow: Glavnaia redaktsiia vostochnoi literatury, 1974. 278 p. (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-9814].

A scholarly catalogue covering 333 numbered manuscript items in the collection of Chinese manuscripts brought together by Konstantin Andreevich Skachkov (1821–1883) acquired by the Rumiantsev Museum in 1873 (now fond no. 274). An introduction provides details about the history of the collection. Appendices include name, title, and geographic indexes, and correlation tables for earlier numbering systems.

g-82. Catalog of the Baron Guenzburg Collection of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Russian State Library in Moscow Based on Records in the Jewish National and University Library Online Catalog. 2 vols. Jerusalem, 1997. (Preliminary Edition). [IMHM] (Lib: MH).
        Vol. 1: Inventory Listing by Manuscript Number.
        Vol. 2: Author Index, Title Index, and Reel Concordance.

A scholarly catalogue covering the collection of 1,913 manuscripts brought together in the nineteenth century by Baron David G. Gintsburg (Guenzburg or Ginzburg) and his family, on 235 reels of microfilm, prepared by IMHM, based on the cataloguing records produced in the Jerusalem library. The present printed catalogue covers approximately three-fourths of the collection. Those manuscripts not yet covered are, however, included in the “Tentative Handlist” (g–83).

g-83. Tentative Handlist of the Baron Guenzburg Collection of Manuscripts in the Russian State Library in Moscow. Typescript. [Jerusalem: IMHM, n.d.]. (Lib: MH).

A tentative list with authors and titles covering the collection of 1,913 manuscripts on 235 reels of microfilm, prepared by IMHM in the Jerusalem library. The first part of the handlist (nos. 1–830) is based on the brief hectographed handwritten list prepared in the late nineteenth century by Senior Sachs (Shn'eur Zaks), a copy of which (lacking title page) is available in RGB, along with a typewritten Russian version: “Opisanie sobraniia rukopisei D. Ginzburga, no. 71 (No. 1–830)” (Moscow, 1957; 255 p.). The second part (Nos. 831–1513) was never published and remains only in manuscript. See the more complete scholarly catalogue, three-quarters of which is available in print (g–82). See also the electronic version of the catalogue available on the IMHM website (http://jnul.huji.ac.il/imhm/).

g-84. *Kornitski, Piter F. Katalog staropechatnykh iaponskikh knig iz sobraniia RGB/Catalogue of the early japanese books in the Russian State Library. Edited by M.E. Trifonenko. Moscow: Pashkov Dom, 2004. [Fond sodeistviia razvitiiu TSentra vostoch. lit-ry RGB] (Lib: DLC).
Earlier ed.: Kornitski, P.F. Katalog staropechatnykh iaponskikh knig iz sobraniia RGB/ Catalogue of the early japanese books in the Russian State Library. Edited by M.E. Trifonenko. Moscow, 1999. 143 p. Parallel text in Russian, English, and Japanese.

g-85. Volkova, E.P. “Materialy k istorii russkogo dramaticheskogo i muzykal'nogo teatra v otdele rukopisei Gosudarstvennoi biblioteki SSSR imeni V.I. Lenina (XVII v.–1930-e gody).” In Teatr i muzyka: Dokumenty i materialy, edited by A.D. Alekseev and I.F. Petrovskaia, pp. 72–90. Moscow: Izd-vo AN SSSR, 1963. (Lib: IU) [IDC-in R-10,743].

g-86. Katalog masonskikh rukopisei Moskovskogo Publichnogo i Rumiantsevskogo muzeev. Compiled by I.D. Berdnikov. Moscow: Pechatnia A.I. Snegirevoi, 1900. 51 p. [IDC-R-9816].
        Earlier ed. as a supplement to Otchet Moskovskogo Publichnogo i Rumiantsevskogo muzeev za 1899 god (Moscow, 1900). [in IDC-R-11,043 mf. 32-34].

A list of 433 miscellaneous items in the manuscript collection of the prerevolutionary Rumiantsev Museum relating to Free Masons in Russia (mostly late 18th–early 19th cc.). Includes name and subject indexes.

g-90. Rukopisi i perepiska V.G. Belinskogo: Katalog. Compiled by R.P. Matorina. Edited by N.L. Brodskii. Moscow: GBL, 1948. 42 p. (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-R-11,009].

A catalogue of manuscripts and correspondence of the Russian writer and social critic Vissarion Grigor'evich Belinskii (1811–1848), found in RGB.

g-91. Rukopisi A.P. Chekhova: Opisanie. Compiled by E.E. Leitnekker. Moscow: Gos. sotsial'no-ekonomicheskoe izd-vo, 1938. 124 p. (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-R-11,011].

A catalogue of manuscripts of the Russian dramatist Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904), found in RGB.

g-92. Arkhiv A.P. Chekhova: Annotirovannoe opisanie pisem k A.P. Chekhovu. Compiled by E.E. Leitnekker. Edited by N.L. Meshcheriakova. 2 vols. Moscow, 1939–1941. (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-R-11,010].
        Vol. 1: M.: Gos. sotsial'no-ekonomicheskoe izd-vo, 1939. 115 p.
        Vol. 2: L.: Ogiz. Gospolitizdat, 1941. 95 p.

A catalogue of letters to the Russian dramatist Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904), found in RGB.

g-93. Rukopisi N.V. Gogolia: Katalog. Compiled by G.P. Georgievskii and A.A. Romodanovskaia. Moscow: Sotsekgiz, 1940. 127 p. (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-R-11,012].

A catalogue of manuscripts of the Russian writer Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol' (1809–1852), found in RGB. A supplement appeared in Zapiski OR [GBL] 19 (1957), pp. 37–46.

g-94. Opisanie rukopisei A.I. Gertsena. Compiled by A.V. Askar'iants and Z.V. Kemenova. Edited by B.P. Koz'min. 2d ed. Moscow: GBL, 1950. 159 p. (Lib: DLC) [IDC-R-10,833].

A catalogue of manuscripts of the Russian publicist and social philosopher Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen (Gertsen) (1812–1870), found in RGB. For the fate of the Herzen papers, especially those that were dispersed abroad, see article by Zhitomirskaia, S.V. “Sud'ba arkhiva Gertsena i Ogareva” in Literaturnoe nasledstvo 96 (1985). For additional papers of Herzen received by GBL after World War II from Prague (RZIA) and Sofia, see article by Putintsev, V.A. and Lanskii, L.R. “Rukopisi proizvedenii Gertsena v ‘Prazhskoi’ i ‘Sofiiskoi’ kollektsiiakh: Opisanie” in Literaturnoe nasledstvo 63 (1956).

g-95. Opisanie rukopisei V.G. Korolenko. Moscow: GBL, 1950–1961. [GBL] (Lib: DLC; MH).
        [Vol. 1]: Khudozhestvennye proizvedeniia, literaturno-kriticheskie stat'i, istoricheskie i etnograficheskie raboty, zapisnye knizhki, materialy k proizvedeniiam. Compiled by R.P. Matorina. 1950. 223 p. [IDC-R-11,013]
        Vol. 2: Opisanie pisem V.G. Korolenko. Compiled by V.M. Fedorova. Edited by S.V. Zhitomirskaia. 1961. 659 p. [IDC-R-11,014].

A catalogue of papers of the Russian writer Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko (1853–1921), found in his personal papers in RNB.

g-96. Rukopisi N.A. Nekrasova: Katalog. Compiled by R.P. Matorina. Moscow: Sotsial'no-ekonomicheskoe izd-vo, 1939. 79 p. (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-R-11,015].

A catalogue of manuscripts of the Russian writer Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov (1821–1877) in RGB.

g-97. Opisanie rukopisei N.P. Ogareva. Compiled by A.V. Askar'iants. Edited by I.Z. Cherniak. Moscow: GBL, 1952. 206 p. (Lib: DLC; MH[mf]) [IDC-R-11,016].

A catalogue of manuscripts of the Russian publicist and social philosopher Nikolai Platonovich Oragev (1813–1877), found in RGB. For the fate of the Ogarev papers, especially those that were dispersed abroad, see article by Zhitomirskaia, S.V. “Sud'ba arkhiva Gertsena i Ogareva” in Literaturnoe nasledstvo 96 (1985).

g-98. Rukopisi A.N. Ostrovskogo: Katalog. Compiled by N.P. Kashin. Moscow: Gos. sotsial'no-ekonomicheskoe izd-vo, 1939. 51 p. (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-R-11,017].

A catalogue of manuscripts of the Russian playwright Aleksandr Nikolaevich Ostrovskii (1823–1886) in RGB.

g-99. Sobraniia D.V. Razumovskogo i V.F. Odoevskogo. Arkhiv A.V. Razumovskogo: Opisaniia. Edited by I.M. Kudriavtsev. Moscow: GBL, 1960. 261 p. (Lib: DLC; MH) [IDC-R-11,004].

A description of manuscript materials collected by the musicologists Dmitrii Vasil'evich Razumovskii (1818–1889) and Prince Vladimir Fedorovich Odoevskii (1803–1869), along with Razumovskii's own archive acquired by the Rumiantsev Museum (now fond 380).

g-100. Matorina, Raisa Pavlovna. “Opisanie avtografov I.S. Turgeneva.” In I.S. Turgenev: Sbornik, edited by N.L. Brodskii, pp. 171–219. Moscow, 1940. (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-10,834].

Describes autograph manuscripts of Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883) held in RGB.

g-104. *Grebeniuk, Tat'iana Vladimirovna. Vladel'cheskie knizhnye znaki v otdele redkikh knig Rossiiskoi gosudarstvennoi biblioteki. Moscow: Izd-vo Pashkov dom, 2010–. 4 vols. published through 2014. [RGB] (Lib: DLC [v.1]; MH [v.1]).
        Vol. 1: Abakumov—Anna, kurfiurstina Saksonskaia. 2010. 504 p.
        Vol. 2: Anna avstriiskaia—Besler. 2011. 400 p.
        Vol. 3: Bespal'ko—Bialobzheskii. 2013. 560 p.

g-105. *Emel'ianova, Elena Aleksandrovna. Staroobriadcheskie izdaniia kirillovskogo shrifta kontsa XVIII–nachala XIX v.: Katalog. Moscow: Pashkov dom, 2010. 640 p. [RGB; NIO redkikh knig (Muzeii knigi)] “Knizhnye pamiatniki Rossiiskoi gosudarstvennoi biblioteki.” (Lib: DLC; MH).

g-106. Avtografy poetov serebrianogo veka: Darstvennye nadpisi na knigakh. Compiled by T.V. Avetisova, E.A. Barysheva, I.V. Gabova, et al. Edited by E.I. Iatsunok, L.A. Morsina and Z.A. Pokrovskaia. Moscow: “Kniga”, 1995. 496 p. (Lib: IU; MH).

A scholarly presentation with facsimiles of close to 400 autographs of 20 poets from books held by the division.

g-108. Onopko-Baburina, Nina Ivanovna. “Russkii i sovetskii khudozhestvennyi knigotorgovyi plakat (po materialam sobraniia Gosudarstvennoi biblioteki SSSR im. V.I. Lenina).” In Kniga: Issledovaniia i materialy, pp. 49–92. Moscow, 1960. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

g-109. Graviury iz kollektsii A.S. Petrovskogo: Katalog. Compiled by E.I. Kuzishchina. Moscow, 1980. 116 p.

A scholarly description of the A.S. Petrovskii collection of early and recent engravings, which was acquired in 1968 (2,271 folios). The largest part of the collection comprises foreign engravings from various nations (15th–20th cc.).

g-110. Onopko-Baburina, Nina Ivanovna. “Sovetskii kinoplakat dvadtsatykh godov.” Zapiski Otdela rukopisei [GBL] 2 (1958), pp. 252–80. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH) [IDC-in R-10,287].

g-113. Kniga Russkogo Zarubezh'ia v sobranii Rossiskoi gosudarstvennoi biblioteki. 1918–1991 gg.: Bibliograficheskii ukazatel'. Compiled by E.A. Akimova, et al. Edited by V.I. Kharlamov. 3 vols. Moscow, 1997–2002. “Knizhnyi mir Rossii,” vol. 4. (Lib: MH).
        Pt. 1: A–K. St. Petersburg: Izd-vo Russkogo Khristianskogo gumanitarnogo instituta, 1997. 616 p.
        Pt. 2: L–T. Moscow: Pashkov dom, 2002. 742 p.
        Pt. 3: U–Ia. Moscow: Pashkov dom, 2002. 527 p.

Contains books, collections of compositions, almanacs etc. published in abroad of Russia—in all about 7,000 publications.

g-115. Pesnopeniia Russkoi pravoslavnoi tserkvi: Katalog. Compiled by A.A. Semeniuk. 3 vols. Moscow: Pashkov dom, 2003–. “Notnye izdaniia v fondakh RGB.” (Lib: DLC; MH).
        Vol. 1: Sborniki pesnopenii raznykh kompozitorov i pesnopeniia bez ukazaniia avtora. 2003. 208 p.

Contains over 250 publications (159 biblographical records) published in 1798–1992.

g-118. Durov, Valerii Aleksandrovich. Kniga v sem'e Romanovykh. Moscow: Nash dom-L'Age d'Homme, 2000. 176 p. “Kul'turnoe nasledie Rossii.” (Lib: DLC).

History of the reading habits of the Romanov dynasty, from Peter to Nicholas II, and of the personal libraries of the Romanovs. Many color photos—of books and manuscripts at the Russian State Library—and plates.

g-119. Katalog biblioteki P.Ia. Chaadaeva. Compiled by V.S. Grechaninova, et al. Edited by S.I. Kovrigina. 2d ed. Moscow: Pashkov dom, 2000. 320 p. [RGB] “Chastnye sobraniia v fondakh Rossiiskoi gosudarstvennoi biblioteki: Katalogi.” (Lib: DLC; MH).

Catalogue contains description of 698 books, 9 indexes, and supplements with description of inscriptions and notes and list of 21 books possibly from Chaadaev's library.

g-122. Dolgodrova, Tat'iana Alekseevna. Katalog khudozhestvennykh perepletov sobraniia Karla Bekhera. Moscow: Pashkov Dom, 2007. 399 p. + ill. [RGB, Otd. redkikh kn. (Muzei kn.)] “Kollektsii RGB.” (Lib: DLC; MH; RGB).

Catalog of some 400 16th–19th cc. German books from the collection of Carl David Becher. The collection, long displayed in the German Book Museum in Leipzig, was taken to the Soviet Union in 1945, and is now held by the Russian State Library. Photos include 80 color plates of works with decorative bindings, a focal point of the Becher collection.

g-123. Borodin, Oleg; and Dolgodrova, Tat'iana Alekseevna. “Kollektsiia Nemetskogo muzeia knigi i shrifta v sobranii Rossiiskoi gosudarstvennoi biblioteki.” Nashe nasledie, 1994, no. 32, pp. 97–106. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

The first published account of the collection of approximately 600 units of manuscripts, incunabula, and early imprints from the Leipzig Museum of the Book and Printing that was brought to Moscow from Germany in 1945–1947. Kept in secret for almost half a century, of special interest among one of the most important German “trophy” library collections now in Moscow is the illuminated 1452–1456 Gutenberg Bible on parchment. RGB is now preparing a full catalogue of the Leipzig collection and other trophy materials from Germany.