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The Book Museum presents an exhibition "Book acquisitions" , which features monuments of book and writing culture that entered the library fund during 2023.
Last year, the book collection of the National Library of Belarus has been replenished in various ways with a number of monuments of national and European book culture. Among them are copies of old printed and rare publications donated, as well as unique documents and publications of the XIX – XX centuries purchased with budgetary funds.
Among the assets: a manuscript of Belarusian-Tatar origin khamail of the second half of the XIX – early XX century; the first rhymed Psalter in Church Slavonic – the Moscow edition of the 1680 "Rhymed Psalter" by the enlightener Simeon Polotsky; a unique source of national history – a set of rare periodical "Grodno provincial Gazette" with appendices of the 1840s; as well as original documents from the period of the Great Patriotic War – handwritten Red Army "battle sheets" of 1943 and 1944.
There was also a return to Belarus from Germany of valuable European publications of the late XVIII-XIX centuries from the library of the Khreptovichi, the richest book collection of the second half of the XVIII-early XX centuries. Significant gifts were two Old Believers' publications – "The Chapel" and "The Psalter", issued in the Mogilev printing house in the 30s of the XVIII century; a valuable cartographic document – the plan of the Gorvatov estate in Narovlya, completed in 1889; as well as individual issues of periodicals of the XIX-XX centuries.
The collection of publications of the twentieth century will also interest visitors. autographed by authors from the former personal library of the veteran librarian Z. V. Dyakonova, as well as editions with edits.
A separate thematic complex consists of modern publications, among which are high-quality facsimiles of a unique monument of literature, Slavic culture and book art "The Bible of Matthew the Tenth 1507", illustrated catalogues of postcards by the famous Russian artist E. Boehm and the creative group of the XIX–XX centuries "Viennese Masters", a photo album and an eternal calendar released as part of the historical and educational project the “Motherland. In search of the lost”, etc.
We invite everyone interested to get acquainted with the exhibition.
Entrance to the exhibition is available by the; library ticket or ticket of the library's social and cultural center.
The exhibition will be open until January 31, 2024.
The end date of the exhibition can be changed.
The opening hours of the exhibition correspond to the opening hours of the Book Museum.
The article is provided by the Public Relations Department.
