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Rygoje saugomos Martyno Liudviko Rėzos Abrahamui Jakobui Penzeliui siųstos knygos
Get PDFMartin Ludwig Rhesa sent Lithuanian books to Abraham Jakob Penzel in Jena twice: in May 1818 and in the spring of 1819. Although this is a well-known fact, there is a lack of knowledge concerning which and how many books were in those two packages. Rhesa himself, in a letter to Scheffner dated April 1819, mentioned the following three books from the second package:Martin Ludwig Rhesa sent Lithuanian books to Abraham Jakob Penzel in Jena twice: in May 1818 and in the spring of 1819. Although this is a well-known fact, there is a lack of knowledge concerning which and how many books were in those two packages. Rhesa himself, in a letter to Scheffner dated April 1819, mentioned the following three books from the second package:1) A new edition of the Lithuanian Bible published by Rhesa (1816);2) Gottfried Ostermeyer’s Erste Littauische Liedergeschichte (1793);3) Gotthard Friedrich Stender’s Neue vollständigere Lettische Grammatik, Nebst einem hinlänglichen Lexico.But it is a mere drop in the ocean, as it is known that Rhesa not only bought books for this occasion, but also added 12 books from his own book collection, and a bundle from Ostermeyer.We also know little about the content of the first package sent to Penzel in May 1819. There are few books in the Latvian Academic Library that have inscriptions with the name Penzel in them. As it is clear from the published copies of the inscriptions (see pictures in this paper), in all of those, Rhesa is mentioned as a sender – all except for one book without any coherent record, which this paper concludes is also one of the books sent by Rhesa. This paper concludes that the following is the list of the books from 1818 (the first three in the list were noticed years ago by Tumelis and Jovaišas):
1) May 29, 1818 Christian Daniel Hassenstein Nuſidawimai βwento Karawimo (1814) (LU AB sign: D6 5813);2) May 31, 1818 Nathaniel Friedrich Ostermeyer Graudenimo balsas (1818) (LU AB sign: D6 5787);3) June 1, 1818 Nathaniel Friedrich Ostermeyer Nedel=Dienos knygeles, krikſʒ́ćʒoniems ſuraβytos (1818), (LU AB sign: D6 5517);4) June 2, 1818 Adam Friedrich Schimmelpfennig Iß naujo pérveiʒdėtos ir pagérintos giesmiû=Knygos (1791), kartu su Danielio Kleino Naujos labbay priwalingos ir Dußoms naudingos Maldû Knygélos (LU AB sign: D6 5515);5) (without a provenance of Penzel himself) Christian Daniel Hassenstein Kaip krikßcʒonißzka Wiera bey Baznycʒia, Ʒmonû pagadinta (1818) (LU AB sign: D6 5518);6) (supposedly) Christian Donaleitis Das Jahr in Vier Gesängen: Ein Ländliches Epos (1818).Straipsnyje pristatoma ir aprašoma su dviem Martyno Liudviko Rėzos siuntomis Abrahamui Jakobui Penzeliui susijusi problematika. Daugiausia dėmesio jame skiriama pirmajai siuntai (1818), kurios egzempliorių yra žinoma de visu. Straipsnio tikslas – apžvelgti Latvijos universiteto Akademinėje bibliotekoje Rygoje saugomas Rėzos 1818 m. Penzeliui siųstas knygas, objektas – jose esantys įrašai. Akstinas tyrimui buvo nauji užtikti įrašai, leidžiantys teigti, kad Rygoje saugomos ne dvi ar trys lietuviškos Rėzos siųstos knygos, bet yra pagrindo manyti, kad penkios. Straipsnyje pateikiama naujos ir aktualios informacijos, papildančios ankstesnių Rėzos veiklos tyrėjų įžvalgas, tačiau klausimas dėl baigtinio siųstų knygų sąrašo vis dar lieka atviras ateities tyrimams
LDK 1613 m. žemėlapio laidos: istoriografinis aspektas
Get PDFBased on the initiative of Duke Nicolaus Christophorus Radziwill the Orphan (1549–1616), Great Marshal of Lithuania (1579–1586) and Voivode of Vilnius (1604–1616), a map of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, titled Magni Ducatus Lithuaniae caeterumque regionum illi adiaciencium exacta descriptio…, was printed in 1613 in the printing house of Willem Janszoon (Blaeu), which was famous at that time for the manufacture of globes and wall maps. It was drawn by Hessel Gerritsz (Lat. Gerardus) and prepared by a team of professionals gathered by N. Ch. Radziwill. The written part of the map (which addresses the reader), separately published also in 1613, glued together from three pages, and designated to the buyers of the wall map of the GDL, was prepared by the famous GDL painter Tomasz Makowski (1575–1630). From 1613 to 1631, this map of the GDL functioned only as a wall map. When W. Blaeu began to publish atlases as well, he included the 1613 wall map of the GDL, which was pressed from four copper plates and included a narrow ornamental edging, in his atlas Appendix Theatri A.Ortelii et Atlantis G. Mercatoris. The readers of the atlas could not observe the territory of the GDL in its entirety, as it was depicted in four pages. Thus, already in another edition of the atlas that was published during the same year of 1631, the map of the GDL was changed and its copper plates were reordered: the segment depicting the lower part of the Dnieper was cut away, and the whole ornamental edging of the map was discarded. Two maps then took shape: one of the GDL’s territory, glued together from four disproportionate plates, and one depicting the lower part of the Dnieper, glued together from two plates. Such a large map of the GDL’s territory (73 × 75 cm) was collapsible and would be included in Blaeu’s atlases near a written piece on Lithuania in the editions of 1631, 1634–1649, and even in one that was published in c. 1670. This map, unconventional for usage in atlases (as it was not bound), was replaced in 1649 by another map made on the basis of the original 1613 variant by W. Blaeu’s son, Joan. This particular specimen was a smaller-scale version of the GDL’s map and was oriented toward the west, not the north. However, as Blaeu’s printing house began to include the 1613 map of the GDL in its atlases, this does not mean that it had also stopped publishing it as a wall map – the buyer could have it made in the same printing shop and purchase, for example, a wide ornamental edging as a supplement to their order (e.g., the specimen belonging to the Uppsala University Library). Only two copies of this 1613 wall map of the GDL are extant, and these can be found in the Uppsala University Library and the Herzogin Anna Amalia Library in Weimar. These specimens are unique in that they allow us to see how an authentic 1613 wall map of the GDL looks like, together with T. Makowski’s text about Lithuania, also marked by a 1613 date. Knowing the history of how the copper plates of this map were used, we may state that the Weimar copy is of earlier origin than the one housed in Uppsala (at least by one year within the 1631 period). This article examines the 1613 map of the GDL from the perspective of book science – we provide an analysis of the publications devoted to the 1613 map of the GDL based on the aspect of how it was published. An all-encompassing historiographical study of the 1613 GDL map is not the goal of the present paper. By chronologically analyzing the works of Lithuanian and foreign authors in an historiographical retrospective, it is emphasized how the various authors writing about this map chose to consider its bibliographical information, how did the perspective regarding the structure of this map shift, etc. An historiographical analysis of the publications on the 1613 map of the GDL has demonstrated that the formal aspects of the map’s origins (what kind of copper plates were prepared for the wall map, of what structure was the map used by William Janszoon Blaeu in the atlases of his printing house and how exactly was it used, etc.) are important in attempting to discern how its functioning had developed over the years.Mikalojaus Kristupo Radvilos Našlaitėlio (1549–1616) suburto profesionalų kolektyvo parengtas ir 1613 m. Amsterdame išspausdintas LDK žemėlapis jau yra nagrinėtas kartografijos, kultūros, meno istorikų, semiotikų ir kitų sričių specialistų Lietuvoje ir užsienyje. Straipsnyje šis žemėlapis analizuojamas knygotyriniu žvilgsniu – pateikiama LDK 1613 m. žemėlapiui skirtų publikacijų analizė jo leidybos (laidų) aspektu. Nesiekiama išsamaus ir visa apimančio LDK 1613 m. žemėlapio istoriografinio tyrimo. Istoriografinėje retrospekcijoje chronologine tvarka nagrinėjant užsienio ir Lietuvos autorių darbus ryškinama, kaip įvairūs autoriai, rašę apie šį žemėlapį, traktavo žemėlapio bibliografinę informaciją, kaip kito požiūris į šio žemėlapio sandarą ir pan. Istoriografinė publikacijų apie LDK 1613 m. žemėlapį analizė parodė, kad LDK 1613 m. žemėlapio kaip spaudos objekto formalieji radimosi dalykai (kokios vario plokštės buvo parengtos sieniniam žemėlapiui, kaip ir kokios sandaros žemėlapis naudotas Williamo Janszoono Blaeu leidyklos atlasuose ir pan.) yra svarbūs žemėlapio funkcionavimo raidai nustatyti
Rankraštinė Jano Hevelijaus Selenografija Vilniuje
Get PDFThe aim of this article is to investigate the history of the Cyrillic manuscript transcription of Selenographia (1647), which details Moon observation – the work of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth astronomer Johannes Hevelius (Jan Heweliusz, 1611–1687). The codex is relevant in two aspects: first, as an example of a late-17th century book, incorporating the characteristics of both a manuscript and a printed publication; and second – as an example of scientific literature in the Commonwealth. Hevelius is a well-known sciencist. The researcher is recognized as the first precise topographer of the Moon. He has composed a catalogue of 1564 stars, discovered four comets, and defined new boundaries of several constellations. In historiography, the manuscript translation of Selenographia has been known since the end of the 19th century. However, in the beginning of the 20th century, the transcript was equated to a piece owned by Tsar Feodor III Alexeyevich (1661–1682), which was present in his library in 1682. The manuscript has been studied by multiple linguists, astronomers, and museologists from various countries; however, it is still yet to receive attention from Lithuanian scientists. This article aims to clarify the currently available scientific information regarding the manuscript version of J. Hevelius’s work Selenographia, which is presently kept in the Manuscript Department of the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences (LMAVB). This study also seeks to answer the following questions: whether the scientists of the GDL were aware of the piece and its Slavic translation, if there is a possibility that the codex may have belonged to the library of Tsar Feodor III Alexeyevich, and what are the history and the lifecycle of the codex. The object of this investigation is a manuscript codex (LMAVB RS F19–318) archived in the LMAVB. A digital copy of an exemplar archived in the Zurich ETH Library was used for comparative analysis. The history of astronomy in 17th century Europe and the GDL, as well as the placement of this work of Hevelius in that history, is shortly discussed and based on a literary analysis. This information was used to evaluate the scientific value of the manuscript codex under investigation and make conclusions regarding any possible demand for the translations of Selenographia in the GDL’s scientific environment of that time. Codicological and comparative analyses with the original print enabled to consider the circumstances of the translation and transcription of Selenographia and establish the characteristics of the manuscript codex. It was determined that the text is written in a hybrid Church Slavic language; it is written by several scribes in the Calligraphic Book Font with characteristics of the Chancellerie Font, distinctive to the cursives used in the 17th century in Kiev and Moscow. The transcription of the translation is illustrated with original copper engravings (17 of 140), hand-drawn copies of original drawings (17), and original (3) pictures. The majority of illustrations are missing, some blank gaps meant for tables are present, and several tables have been redacted completely. The contents of Selenographia were adapted to fit the environment of its purchaser: all dedications and celebratory texts dedicated to Hevelius were removed and supplementary texts were eliminated, an original preface created by the translator was added, and only an anonymous “ruler” is mentioned. The transcription of the text was intended to maintain the order of the text and illustrations as well as the exact glosses system present in the margins. All numbers and dates have been written in the Cyrillic alphabet; however a Western year numbering system was maintained, and the surnames of scientists were retained in their original Latin forms; objects named in schemes and diagrams were presented in the Latin alphabet. The coinciding fragments of an extant Selenographia translation (chapters 48, 51, 54, and 55) and texts of the codex kept in the LMAVB archives allow us to conclude that it is a translation made by S. Chizhinski during his service in Posol’skii prikaz (Moscow) in 1678–1681. Based on all the defined characteristics, as well as the unfinished appearance of the book and the variety of paper used, it may be concluded that it is a transcription meant for the diplomatic needs of Posol’skii prikaz rather than for the personal library of the Tsar.Efforts to find any evidence of the discussed Selenographia translation in the history of astronomy and book history in Lithuania were unsuccessful. It was not possible to clarify the history of the function of the codex as well. Nonetheless, the history of this book focuses one’s attention to another little-studied topic in Lithuania – the connections of literature and book culture in the 17th century that bridge the GDL and the Tsardom of Russia. To sum up, it may be concluded that access to new archival sources in Russia and Lithuania and a detailed chemical analysis of materials making up the codex (the ink in particular) would affirm or deny the conclusions reached in this study.Straipsnyje nagrinėjama Abiejų Tautų Respublikos astronomo Jano Hevelijaus (1611–1687) veikalo Selenografija (1647), skirto Mėnulio stebėjimams, vertimo nuorašo kirilika istorija. Tyrimo objektu tapo LMAVB saugomas rankraštinis kodeksas (LMAVB RS F19–318), o lyginamai analizei buvo naudojama Ciuricho mokslo ir technikos universiteto ETH bibliotekoje saugomo egzemplioriaus skaitmeninė kopija. Pasitelkus literatūros analizę, trumpai aptariama astronomijos mokslo istorija XVII a. Europoje, Lietuvos Didžiojoje Kunigaikštystėje bei J. Hevelijaus veikalo vieta joje. Kodikologinė vieneto analizė leido atidžiau pažvelgti į kodekso sukūrimo būdą, o kartu ir pabandyti tikslinti jo gamybos vietą bei funkcionavimo istoriją. Pirminiai tyrimo duomenys patvirtina, kad tai Pasiuntinių tarnyboje dirbusio Stepano Čižinskio vertimo nuorašas. Tačiau kodekso gamybos vieta ir paskirtis nėra iki galo aiškios, nes knygos parengimas nėra išbaigtas (trūksta daugelio iliustracijų, lentelių). Pavieniai požymiai leidžia jį priskirti Pasiuntinių tarnybos „leidyklai“, o knygos blokui panaudotas popierius turi bendrų bruožų su LDK perrašytomis knygomis. Atskleista kodekso patekimo į Vilniaus viešąją biblioteką istorija leistų patikslinti tiek kodekso paskirtį, tiek funkcionavimo istoriją
Dėl P. Skorinos Mažosios kelionių knygelės spausdinimo laiko ir vietos
Get PDFAs we continue to solve the issues of book science of the 16th century, we have to be very guarded in questions of terminology. This is of particular importance when we talk about the Little Traveler’s Book, which begins the history of typography in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. There is a widespread belief that the abovementioned book was printed in Vilnius approximately in 1522. It would be more correct to say that the Little Traveler’s Book was completed in Vilnius. One of its parts – a set of eight Akathists and eight canons – could have been printed earlier in Prague.
This hypothesis can be supported with several arguments. In contrast with the Acts and Epistles of the Apostles (the Apostle, 1525), the Little Traveler’s Book is not dated anywhere and in terms of content, it is a heterogeneous (composite) publication. Considering the content of the Little Traveler’s Book, the elements that particularly stand out are the Akathists and canons that contain unique wood engravings, endpieces, vignettes, borders, and initials. Two wood engravings were made by one “Master of the New Testament,” whose works were published in the Prague Book of Psalms (1517).
The autonomy of an Akathist as a particular publication is accented by the publisher’s acrostic colophon, written in the last Akathist via initials. The Akathists housed in Wroclaw (Wroclaw University Library, No. 305071) can represent the Prague period of typography. E. Nemirovkij’s “evidence” regarding the Vilnius origin of the Akathist is incorrect.Nevienalytė pagal savo sudėtį Mažoji kelionių knygelė iki šiol traktuojama kaip pirmoji Lietuvos Didžiojoje Kunigaikštystėje išspausdinta knyga. Iš dalies tokį požiūrį skatina tautiškas motyvas, t. y. suprantamas noras turėti vienareikšmišką simbolį, kuris aiškiai žymėtų Lietuvos ir rytų slavų spaudos pradžią, tačiau jį formuojantys argumentai (teiginiai) yra silpni ir ginčytini. Straipsnyje skatinama atsisakyti išankstinių nuostatų ir prielaidų, kurios iki šiol taikomos interpretuojant Mažąją kelionių knygelę: apie spausdinimo vietą ir laiką, paleotipo sandarą, šrifto kilmę ir pan. Objektyvūs požymiai kol kas įgalina kalbėti apie rinkinio sukomplektavimą Vilniuje. Lietuvoje, perkėlus spaudą iš Prahos, pasirodė Horologionas, Paschalija ir viso knygų rinkinio bendras Turinys. Kitų sudedamųjų vienetų – ypač Akatistyno – atveju mes tokio tvirtumo neturime. Atskirai aptariamos Apaštale ir Akatistyne, jų kolofonuose, išradingai panaudotos kombinatorinės poetikos priemonės (ars combinatoria)
Martyno Liudviko Rėzos susirašinėjimas su lietuvių dainų rinkėjais provincijoje
Get PDFThe personal archive of Martin Ludwig Rhesa (1776–1840), who had gathered and prepared the first known collection of Lithuanian songs, contains the letters of two of Rhesa’s respondents from the country – of Enrikas Budrius (1783–1852), teacher of the Brėdausių estate school, and of Wilhelm Ernst Beerbohm (1786–1865), chief inspector of littoral fishing. The archive itself was taken to Königsberg after the Second World War and is today stored in the Manuscript Department of the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. Budrius wrote his letters during 1818–1827 and contained in them songs that he had heard in the Pilupėnų area. He was one of the contributors who had captured the melodies of the songs, which he would hear performed during Lithuanian feasts or other types of gatherings. Budrius has sent more than 20 songs, yet only one – Žvirblytis – was eventually included in the printed collection; Rhesa himself gave a copy to Budrius. The letters contain discussions on Lithuanian songs and their melodies; we see some talks regarding a project to write the Lithuanian history using the Lithuanian language, and there are some personal motives present in the letter as well. Beerbohm, the other respondent, corresponded with Rhesa during the former’s last years, during 1835–1839; these two men were from the same region and had met several times in Königsberg. Beerbohm’s letters contain ample supplementary content – songs and regional vocabularies, fishermen phraseology, Lithuanian names of littoral plants and sea fish, etc. The drawings and schemes of vytinė trading boats and ice fishing, complemented with Lithuanian terms, are the first Lithuanian visual and explanatory dictionaries. Some of these words are not included in any of the Lithuanian dictionaries – not now, and not even then. Each of the respondents have authored a poem dedicated to Rhesa. Budrius wrote his poem in Lithuanian. Four Beerbohm’s letters and three written by Budrius are extant. Judging by the circumstances referred to in the letters, it is possible to state that Rhesa wrote at least four or five letters to these individuals.Karaliaučiaus universiteto profesorius Martynas Liudvikas Rėza (Rhesa, 1776–1840) kreipimesi į lietuvių literatūros bičiulius (1817) ragino rinkti Prūsijos lietuvių dainas ir siųsti jam į Karaliaučių. Apie 1937 m. Kauno universiteto profesorius Juozas Eretas Rėzos archyve Karaliaučiuje surado keletą dainų siuntėjų laiškų – Brėdausių dvaro mokyklos mokytojo Endrikio Budriaus (1783–1852) ir pamario žvejybos vyriausiojo inspektoriaus Ernsto Vilhelmo Berbomo (Beerbohm, 1786–1865) – ir juos nusirašė, deja, su kupiūromis. Po Antrojo pasaulinio karo pervežtame į Vilnių Rėzos archyve kai kurių laiškų jau nebebuvo. Išlikę trys Budriaus ir keturi Berbomo laiškai, dabar saugomi LMAVB Rankraščių skyriuje. 1964 m. juos paskelbė Albinas Jovaišas, tačiau nepublikavo gausių laiškų priedų, tai – dainos ir regioninė leksika, žvejų frazeologija, pamario augalų ir marių žuvų lietuviški pavadinimai ir kt. Berbomo atsiųsti vytinių valčių bei poledinės žūklės proceso brėžiniai ir schemos su lietuviškais terminais yra pirmieji lietuviški aiškinamieji ir vaizduojamieji žodynėliai. Šiame straipsnyje plačiau pristatomi respondentai, pateikiamas platesnis susirašinėjimo kontekstas, publikuojamas Ereto kupiūruotas Budriaus laiško fragmentas ir keletas Berbomo laiškų priedų fragmentų. Rėzos laiškų nerasta, tačiau galima teigti, kad šiems respondentams jis parašė mažiausiai keturis–penkis laiškus
Tarptautinių daugiakalbių lietuviškųjų periodinių leidinių leidyba (1904–1940)
Get PDFDuring 1904–1940, a total of 26 periodicals were published in Lithuania and in foreign countries in which the Lithuanian language was used alongside others. The demand for multilingual periodicals had emerged during the first part of the 20th c. as new cultural, economic, and political conditions took shape in Eastern and Central Europe. For the governments and businesses of Lithuania, Germany, Latvia, and Poland, the development of economic relations was of the biggest importance, and this process was to be stimulated using the multilingual publications that were being released in these countries. Also, particular importance was granted to the political cooperation of the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania). Cultural relations, on the other hand, were less expressed in the multilingual periodicals and not characterized by commercial success. For propaganda purposes, a considerable number of multilingual publications were released by Germany during the First World War. Apart from Lithuanian, these multilingual publications were marked by the use of German, English, Polish, French, Latvian, and Russian languages; among the rarer instances were Belarusian, Yiddish, and Estonian texts. The emergence of multilingual periodicals and the presence of the Lithuanian language in these publications reflected the international recognition of the Lithuanian nation and its state. It represented an understanding of multiculturalism and peculiar needs within the society and resembled the dialogue occurring across the political, economic, and cultural dimensions.Straipsnyje analizuojama daugiakalbių tarptautinių leidinių, kuriuose buvo spausdinami ir lietuviški tekstai, leidyba. 1904–1940 m. iš viso tokių leidinių leista 26. Jų poreikis subrendo dėl XX a. pirmojoje pusėje susidariusių naujų kultūrinių, ekonominių ir politinių sąlygų. Daugiakalbė periodinė spauda startavo kultūrinio bendradarbiavimo plotmėje, bet, po Pirmojo pasaulinio karo Pabaltijyje susikūrus nepriklausomoms valstybėms, dėmesys šiai sričiai sumenko, labiau plėtoti ekonominiai ir politiniai ryšiai. Lietuvos, Vokietijos, Latvijos, Lenkijos ir kt. šalių leidėjams buvo aktualesnė ekonominių ryšių plėtotė. Svarbos įgavo ir Baltijos šalių (Estija, Latvija ir Lietuva) politinis bendradarbiavimas. Propagandos tikslais nemažai daugiakalbių leidinių Pirmojo pasaulinio karo metais leido Vokietija. Daugiakalbiuose leidiniuose šalia lietuvių kalbos buvo pasitelkiamos vokiečių, lenkų, prancūzų, latvių, rusų ir kitos užsienio kalbos. Daugiakalbės periodinės spaudos atsiradimas ir lietuvių kalbos pasirodymas juose atspindėjo lietuvių tautos ir Lietuvos valstybės tarptautinį pripažinimą, savitų poreikių suvokimą, politinį, ekonominį ir kultūrinį dialogą
Iš Vrublevskių bibliotekos istorijos: Platerių Pustinios dvaro knygų rinkinio įsigijimo atvejis
Get PDFThe founder of the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Tadeusz Stanisław Wróblewski (1858–1925), began to enrich the library of his parents, which he inherited in 1891, through his acquisitions of books, manuscripts, periodicals, collections of iconographic documents, and other valuables. One of such book collections, offered to him for sale in 1907, was from the Pustynia Estate located near the town of Kraslava, then part of the Vitebsk Province (Kraslava now is a municipality center in the Republic of Latvia, situated not far from Daugavpils and near the border with the Russian Federation). This collection belonged to Count Henryk de Broel-Plater (1868–after 1926). Having studied its catalogue, Wroblewski purchased from the count his entire collection (over 6000 volumes) on October 30, 1907, for 2.5 thousand roubles. However, Plater had hid several hundred of his most valuable books, which he later offered to Hieronym Wilder’s antique bookshop in Warsaw. Wroblewski had to exercise a considerable effort to reclaim the books he rightly owned. Based both on archival materials kept in the Wroblewski Library of LAS and on evidence collected about publications carrying the Pustynia Estate provenance mark (350 copies have been identified so far), the article discusses the circumstances of the purchase of Plater’s book collection and overviews its content and development. The Pustynia estate library was rather universal by its content and contained extremely valuable editions. Wroblewski purchased from the count, among other rarities, Joannes Radvanus’s Radivilias (Vilnae, Metropoli Litvanorum: ex officina Ioannis Kartzani, 1592), a Latin biography by the Lutheran pastor Paul Oderborn Ioannis Basilidis magni Moscoviae ducis vita (Witebergae: excudebat haeredes Ioannis Cratonis, 1585), and a treatise on the differences between the Catholic and the Orthodox faiths by the Kraków canon Jan Sakran, Elucidarius errorum ritus Ruthenici (Cracoviae: typis Joannis Haller, post V 1501). There are no more copies of these and several other Plater’ s books in Lithuania.Lietuvos mokslų akademijos Vrublevskių bibliotekos fundatorius Tadas Stanislovas Vrublevskis (1858–1925), 1891 m. iš tėvų paveldėjęs biblioteką, toliau pats ją ėmė pildyti, įsigydamas knygų, rankraščių, periodinių leidinių, ikonografinių dokumentų kolekcijų ir kitų vertybių iš asmeninių to meto bibliotekų, sukauptų aristokratų dvaruose ar mokslininkų namuose. Vienas iš tokių knygų rinkinių 1907 m. buvo pasiūlytas nupirkti iš grafo Henriko de Broel-Platerio (1868 – po 1926 m.) Pustinios dvaro, buvusio netoli Kraslavos miestelio tuometinėje Vitebsko gubernijoje (Kraslava – dab. to paties pavadinimo savivaldybės centras, esantis Latvijos Respublikoje, Daugpilio apskrityje, šalia sienos su Rusijos Federacija). Straipsnyje, remiantis Lietuvos mokslų akademijos Vrublevskių bibliotekoje saugoma archyvine medžiaga ir surinktais duomenimis apie šiuo metu identifikuotus leidinius su Pustinios dvaro bibliotekos proveniencija (apie 350 egzempliorių), aptariamos grafo Henriko Platerio knygų rinkinio įsigijimo aplinkybės, apžvelgiami bibliotekos raidos bruožai, apibūdinamas jos turinys