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Collection Development and Selection

"St. Basil" detail of an
illumination from an early
14th century church Slavic
manuscript Sluzhebnyk [Service]
book ([Novgorod?, 13--]).
Various ownership marks
suggest that as early as 1342,
this volume was held by the
cathedral in Pskov. It was
donated to NYPL by the late
Mrs. Nina Prosen Robbins in 1994.
Rare Books and Manuscripts Division
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Background

Collection Categories, Subject Foci, and Comparative Size of Slavic and Baltic Division Holdings

I. Bound Pamphlets, Serials, Rare Books, Photographs, And Works On Paper, And Special Categories Of Material (As Of January 1, 2000)

II. Reference Works

III. East Slavic

IV. Baltic

V. South Slavic

VI. West Slavic

VII: Annex Collection

VIII. Microforms

IX: Cyrillic Cataloging Backlog