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Renaissance Manuscripts in Eastern Europe*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Paul Oskar Kristeller
Paul Oskar Kristeller*
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Columbia University
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When the opportunity of visiting a number of libraries in Eastern Europe was offered to me in August and September, 1958, my primary purpose was to add some material from those libraries to my summary list [Iter Italicum, see RN XI, 47] of uncatalogued Renaissance manuscripts in Italian and other libraries, which I hope to begin publishing in 1960. also made an effort to gather additional data for my bibliography of printed catalogues and handwritten inventories of Latin manuscripts. Moreover, I tried to obtain as much information as possible concerning the status of Eastern European manuscript collections, and about their losses and acquisitions during and after the Second World War. The number of libraries which I actually visited was necessarily quite limited, but I was able to supplement the information gathered on the spot through publications and through correspondence, both before and after my journey.

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Research Article
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Renaissance News , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , Summer 1959 , pp. 83 - 90
Copyright
Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1959

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Footnotes

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This article is based on a paper read before the New England Renaissance Conference at Dartmouth College, and before the Columbia University Seminar on the Renaissance. The visit to Eastern European libraries was made possible by grants from the American Philosophical Society, the Council for Research in the Social Sciences of Columbia University, and the Ford Foundation. My program was approved and facilitated in Czechoslovakia by the Kabinet pro Studia Řecká, Řimská a Latinská of the Czechoslovakian Academy of Sciences, in Poland by the Section of Foreign Relations of the Polish Academy of Sciences, in East Germany by the Auslandsamt and the Institut fur griechisch-romische Altertumskunde of the Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften, and in Russia by the American Department of VOKS.

References

1 See Kristeller, P. O., ‘Latin Manuscript Books before 1600’, Traditio VI (1948), 227–317;Google Scholar IX (1953). 393-418. A thoroughly revised edition of this bibliography will be published in the near future. For the precise names of the Eastern European libraries mentioned in this paper, and for their printed and handwritten catalogues, I should like to refer to this forthcoming new edition.

2 Bohacek, M., ‘Zur Geschichte der Stationarii von Bologna’, Eos XLVIII, 2 (1957), 241–295 Google Scholar.

3 Aland, Kurt, Die Handschriftenbestände der Polnischen Bibliotheken (Berlin, 1956)Google Scholar.

4 Goukowsky, M.,‘La Renaissance italienne dans les travaux des historiens de l’URSS’, Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance XVIII (1956), 306–315 Google Scholar.