French Autographs in the Holdings of the National Library of Belarus

In 2011 the Belarus Library published a CD ROM entitled (in Russian) French Autographs in the Holdings of the National Library of Belarus, displaying the title pages of 66 books from Paris with autograph dedications by and/or to famous French politicians, writers, and other cultural leaders, together with photographs of the individuals named. Full texts appear of four notable books. Almost all the names to whom the dedications pictured on the CD ROM are addressed appear on the ERR seizure lists presented on this site, and many other books from the same French libraries are to be found in the library. (When Dr. Grimsted verified the Excel Charts of ERR library-seizure victims with card catalogues of provenance in the Rare-Book Department in the National Library of Belarus, she found well over 100 French individual and institutional private libraries represented.) With permission from the National Library of Belarus, most of the contents of the CD-ROM, which are in Russian and French, are presented here with an English-language translation of the intriguing Introduction by Belarus Professor Vladimir V. Makarov.

Introduction (in Russian, French, and English)

"Autographs of Fate and the Fate of Autographs" (article by Vladimir V. Makarov)

Authors of Books

Addressees of Autographs (with the numbers in the list of authors whose books are dedicated to them)

French Autographs in the Holdings of the National Library of Belarus
Compilers: S.G. Pakhomenkova, A.N. Steburako
Under the scholarly editorship of V.V. Makarov, Doctor of Philology, Professor
Style-editors: E.M. Bildiuk, O.V. Sharpilo
Responsible for the publication: G.V. Kireeva
Computer layout and design: T.L. Boldenko
Programming: A.A. Grishelya
National Library of Belarus, 2011
Presented on the internet with permission of the National Library of Belarus. English translations by Wesley A. Fisher.

This page last updated 2017-03-22

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