Early Books at the Beinecke Library
Eastern European Manuscripts
In the finding aid below, the Beinecke's Eastern European manuscripts are listed as Latinate and Slavonic; pre-1600 manuscripts about Eastern Europe originating outside the region are also included. Manuscripts have been arranged chronologically within each group. Where available, images in the Beinecke Digital Collections are linked through the photo accompanying each item.
Latinate manuscripts were produced in or for readers in East-Central Europe - Bohemia, Poland, Hungary, and in one case, Croatia - and occasionally include texts in Czech or Polish. Geographically, this covers manuscripts coming out of the Western Christian tradition. Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts to 1600 are the primary focus, though three seventeenth-century manuscripts are included for being exceptionally interesting.
Slavonic manuscripts comprise those with the shelfmark "Slavic MSS," which are largely written in Church Slavonic and date as late as 1910. Additional Slavonic manuscripts from other parts of the Beinecke collections are also included, though these have been limited to religious texts of a similar nature to those found in the Slavic MSS shelfmark.
The final group consists of manuscripts about Eastern Europe, primarily 16th-century Italian diplomatic correspondence.
Latinate Manuscripts
Austria or Bohemia, [between 1400 and 1425].
Pharmacological, etc. miscellany, in Latin, German, and Czech(?).
On f.157v, Glagolitic alphabet copied twice.
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Slavonic Manuscripts
Slavic MSS 1
c.1600-1620.
ʺSkazanīe děi︠a︡nīi apostolʹskikhʺ spisana Loukoi︠u︡ evangelistomʺ po lětekhʺ mnozěkhʺ strasti gospodnę.
New Testament Acts in Church Slavonic, with notes in Polish.
The manuscript was given to the Church of St. Barbara [in Eastern Poland or Western Ukraine] during an official visit by a representative of the (Basilian?) Order on 23 December 1725,. Inscription is signed Stephan Liscienko.
Slavic MSS 16
c.1620-1640.
Sluzhebnik.
Russian Orthodox service book. Includes liturgies of Pope Gregory, St. John Chrysostom, and St. Basil; service for the Pentecost; rites of baptism, betrothal, crowning, burial; rites of sanctification of Holy Water and oil, and of curing the deaf and the dumb; canons on the conducting of services and on church offerings; Prokeimena.
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