Franklin Sciacca Collection of Russian Imperial artifacts, 1629-2000
Summary Information
At a Glance
- Call No.:
- BA#0644
- Bib ID:
- 13793035 View CLIO record
- Creator(s):
- Repository:
- Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Physical Description:
- 5 Linear Feet (1 document box; 3 record cartons; 1 shoe box; 1 tube; 1 oversize folder)
- Language(s):
- Russian .
- Access:
- You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
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Material is unprocessed. Please contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
Description
Content Description
The collection consists of approximately 100 items. This includes twenty five authentic 18th century imprints from the Lavra's famous printing house (1734-1794); rare Old Believer imprints; 19th century reprints of 18th century Pochaev imprints; 11 late 19th/early 20th century Pochaev imprints; and two 17th century Muscovite imprints, a Mineia sluzhebnaia (1629), and a Psaltyr' (1646). Also included are 19th and early 20th century minor graphics, lacking serial issues (including issues of USSR in Construction designed by El Lissitsky), color lithographs, original drawings, and stereopticon slides.
This is probably one of the more significant collections of early imprints to come available in recent memory.
In the 1990s, the NYPL received the Bishop Basil Shereghy Collection, which included seven Pochaiv imprints, dated 1768-1814. Only one duplicates an item in the Sciacca gift.
For background on the complementary NYPL holdings, see: "Preface," Church Slavonic, Glagolitic, And Petrine Civil Script Printed Books In The New York Public Library: A Preliminary Catalog. Described By Irina V. Pozdeeva, Moscow State University Catalogued By Zora Z. Kipel, The New York Public Library. (Marina Del Rey: The New York Public Library, & Charles Schlacks, Jr., 1996), pp. [vi]-xi.
Elsewhere in OCLC, aside from NYPL holdings, I located a total of 17 Pochaiv/Pochaev imprints, of which the greatest concentrations were found at Toronto (four), Harvard's Houghton (3), and the British Library (2). Other holding libraries with single items include the V & A, Newberry, Ohio State, Cambridge, Alberta, Manitoba, and Stanford.
Using the Collection
Conditions Governing Access
You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
Material is unprocessed. Please contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Franklin Sciacca Collection of Russian Imperial Artifacts; Box and Folder; Bakhmeteff Archive; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Franklin Sciacca, 2019.
About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Subject Headings
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| Genre/Form | ||
|---|---|---|
| Artifacts (object genre) | CLIO Catalog | ArchiveGRID |
| Porcelain (material) | CLIO Catalog | ArchiveGRID |
| Subject | ||
| Coins | CLIO Catalog | ArchiveGRID |