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The Stefanyk Library of the National
Academy of Sciences of Ukraine L’viv, Ukraine
![]() Left: Manuscript archives at the Stefanyk Library. Right: Scholars’ reading room at the Stefanyk Library. ©HMML 2007. The Stefanyk Library is the second largest library in Ukraine, and arguably the most important with respect to Ukrainian history and identity. It was formally founded on January 2, 1940, several months after the establishment of Soviet rule in Western Ukraine. Its holdings were built from several major libraries in the region of L’viv, including many manuscripts confiscated from churches and monasteries by the Soviet authorities. The collections include 360 manuscripts in Old Slavonic from the 14th-16th centuries and 600 from the 17th-19th centuries. There are also manuscripts in the Ukrainian, Polish, Czech, Bulgarian, German, French, Italian and English languages, as well as smaller holdings of Armenian, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian and Turkic-language manuscripts. The majority of the Library’s estimated 2,000 manuscripts are in Latin. Digitization at the Stefanyk began in January 2008. |
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