Libraries and other cultural institutions

There are also many libraries, museums, monasteries, and cultural organizations that have held archives, manuscripts, and old imprints important for the study of Galician history.

Most of these were located in L’viv, where by the first half of the twentieth century more than twenty such institutions were in existence. However, like the archives, most of the older libraries and cultural institutions have been dismantled and their holdings redistributed after the establishment of Soviet rule. For the most part, institutional archival records have been placed in the Central State Historical Archive, while manuscript collections and printed books are now in the Stefanyk Library of the Academy of Sciences in L’viv (L’vivs’ka Naukova Biblioteka im. V. Stefanyka AN URSR), the Ivan Franko L’viv State University Library (Naukova Biblioteka L’vivs’koho Derzhavnoho Universytetu im. Ivana Franka), and the L’viv State Museum of Ukrainian Art (L’vivs’kyi Derzhavnyi Muzei Ukrains’koho Mystetstva-formerly the Ukrainian National Museum). Finally, a substantive portion of the collection from the Ossolineum Library was transferred to that institution’s successors of the same name in Wroclaw, Poland. With regard to these institutional changes, Patricia K. Grimsted has provided a general description of L’viv’s libraries and cultural institutions both before and after Soviet rule, with particular emphasis on the fate of manuscript collections.⁷³

With regard to the pre-Soviet period, the best-described collections are those of the Ossolineum, or Ossoliriski National Institute (Zaklad Narodowy im. Ossoliris- kich), a major repository especially for Polish materials since its establishment in L’viv in 1823, and the National Home (Narodnyi Dom), which existed in L’viv from 1864 to 1945, primarily as a resource for Old Rus’ and Ukrainian materials.

As for the Ossolinski Institute, six volumes listing manuscripts and other materials were published.⁷⁴ Also, special catalogs appeared describing the archives and manuscripts of the Lubomirski Museum and Pawlikowski Library, two of the many collections that found their way into the Ossolinski Institute.⁷⁵ With regard to the National Home, Ilarion Svientsits’kyi prepared detailed catalogs of its manuscript holdings.⁷⁶ The Petrushevych Museum, which was part of the National Home, was also accorded special attention in four works.⁷⁷

73 Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, “L’viv Manuscript Collections and Their Fate,” in Euchari- sterion: Essays Presented to Omeljan Pritsak, in Harvard Ukrainian Studies, III—IV, pt 1 (Cambridge, Mass. 1979-80), pp. 348-375.

One Polish scholar has also described briefly the manuscript materials on Galicia that he used in L’viv libraries during research trips in 1966 and 1969: Stanislaw Franciszek Gajerski, “Zrodla do dziejdw poludniowo-wschodniej Polski w bibliotekach і archiwach Lwowa,” Studia Historyczne, XX, 2 (Cracow 1977), pp. 295-302.

74 Wojciech K^trzynski, Katalog r^kopisow Biblioteki Zakladu Narfodowego] im. Ossolinskich, 3 vols (L’viv: ZNIO 1881-98); Inwentarz rfkopisbw Biblioteki Zakladu Narodowego im. Ossolinskich we Lwowie, 2 vols (L’viv: ZNIO 1926-34); Felix Pohorecki, Catalogus diplomatum Bibliothecae Instituti Ossoliniani пес non Bibliothecae Pawlikowianae inde ab anno 1227 usque ad annum 1506 (L’viv 1937). See also F. Pohorecki, “O sredniowiecznych dyplomach Zakladu Narodowego im. Ossolifiskich, Ziemia Czerwienska, I, 1 (L’viv 1935), pp. 90-98.

75 S. Inglot, Inwentarz Archiwum XX Lubomirskich (Unia Dqbrowienska) (Warsaw 1937);

M. Gfbarowicz, Katalog rqkopisow Biblioteki im. Gwalberta Pawlikowskiego (L’viv 1929).

76 I.S. Svientsitskii, “Tserkovno- і russko-slavianskiia rukopisi publichnoi biblioteki Narodnago Doma vo L’vovie,” Izviestiia otdeleniia russkago iazyka і slovesnosti Imp.

Akademii Nauk, IX, 3 (St Petersburg 1904), pp. 350-414; idem, “Rukopisi biblioteki ‘Narodnago Doma’ vo L’vovie,” Nauchno-literaturnyi sbornik ‘Galitsko-russkoi Matitsy’, III, 4 (L’viv 1904), pp. 81-104 and IV, 1 (1905), pp. 108-149, published separately as Opisanie inoiazychnykh і novieishikh karpato-russkikh rukopisei biblioteki 'Narodnago Doma' vo L’vovie (L’viv 1905).

See also F.I. Svistun, “Tserkovno- і slavianorusskie rukopisi biblioteki ‘Narodnogo Doma’,” Viestnik ‘Narodnogo Doma’, XXIII (I), 6 (L’viv 1905), pp. 94-96.

77 Iliarion Svientsitskyi, Opys rukopysiv Narodnoho Domu z kolektsti Ant. Petrushevycha, 3 pts in Ukrdins’ko-rus’kyi arkhyv, vols I, VI, VII (L’viv 1906-11), and the supplement by O.O. Markov, “Opisanie rukopisei XIX v. sobraniia A.S. Petrushevicha (v bibl. ‘Narodnago Doma’ v L’vovie),” Viestnik ‘Narodnogo Doma’, XXX (VIII), 1-3 (L’viv 1912), pp. 6-11, 26-32, 34-40; F.I. Svistun, “Pergaminnyi dokumenty muzeia o. pral. Petrushevicha,” Viestnik 'Narodnogo Doma’, XXX (IV), 1-3 (L’viv 1908), pp. 1-2, 22, 55-56; idem, “Bumazhnyi

Among other pre-Soviet institutions, the Stauropegial Institute’s rich collection of Old Slavonic manuscripts was described in three catalogs.^[60] ^{^[61] Other collections for which catalogs or descriptions of pre-World War II holdings were prepared include the University of L’viv,^[62] the L’viv Historical Museum,^[63] the Ukrainian National Museum,^[64] and the St Onufrius Basilian Monastery Library.^[65]}

As for the status of library collections since their reorganization under Soviet rule, Fedir Maksymenko has published a catalog of Old Slavonic books found in L’viv.^[66] Most attention has been devoted to the Stefanyk Library of the Academy of Sciences in L’viv, which took over the holdings (among others) of the former Shevchenko Scientific Society, the National Home, the Central Library of the Basilian Order, the L’viv Theological Academy Library, the Baworowski Library, and a large portion of the Ossolineum Library.

Patricia K. Grimsted has provided a detailed description of the Stefanyk Library’s manuscript collection,^[67] while Soviet scholars have prepared catalogs of its incunabula and old imprints,^[68] as well as catalogs and descriptions of some of its manuscript collections.^[69]

There are also several general descriptions and histories of the major Galician libraries.^[70] These include libraries in pre-Soviet institutions: the L’viv Brotherhood (later Stauropegial Institute),^[71] the Ossolineum,^[72] National Home,^[73] Shevchenko Scientific Society,^[74] Przemysl Eparchy,^[75] and the Ukrainian National Museum;^[76] as well as the present-day Stefanyk Library,^[77] Ivan Franko University Library,^[78] the L’viv Historical Museum,^[79] and Ukrainian Art Museum.^[80]

Outside of Galicia, there are several libraries with valuable manuscript collections and publications originating from and/or about eastern Galicia. Perhaps the richest of these is the Ossolineum in Wroclaw, Poland, which in 1946 and 1947 received much of the material held in the L’viv predecessor of the same name. The Wroclaw Ossolineum’s manuscript collection, especially rich in material on the early history and Polish aspects of Galicia, has been cataloged in several volumes.^[81] ^{^[82]}

There are also rich collections of publications (and some manuscripts) dealing with Galicia in the Biblioteka Narodowa (Warsaw); the Närodni Museum and Slovanskä knihovna (Prague); the Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek (Vienna); the Institutum Pontificum Orientale (Rome); Library of Congress (Washington, DC); New York Public Library; Harvard University Library (Cambridge, Massachusetts); the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace (Stanford, California); the Public Archives of Canada (Ottawa); the Basilian Fathers’ Library and Museum (Mundare, Alberta); and the University of Toronto Library.

The Galician collections in several of these institutions have been singled out for description in whole or in part."

pp. 237-243; Paul R. Magocsi, “Vienna as a Resource for Ukrainian Studies: With Special Reference to Galicia,” in Eucharisterion: Essays Presented to Omeljan Pritsak on his Sixtieth Birthday by his Colleagues and Students, in Harvard Ukrainian Studies, III-IV, pt 2 (Cambridge, Mass. 1979-80), pp. 609-626. Holdings of the materials at Harvard on the Lemkian region are singled out in Paul R. Magocsi and Olga K. Mayo, Carpatho-Ruthenica at Harvard: 4 Catalog of Holdings (Fairview, NJ: Carpatho-Rusyn Research Center 1983). Two collection: at the University of Toronto that contain primarily Galician materials are described in Paul R. Magocsi The Peter Jacyk Collection of Ukrainian Serials: A Guide to Newspapers and Periodicals (Toronto: Chair of Ukrainian Studies 1983); and Edward Kasinec and Bohdan Struminskyj, The Millennium Collection of Old Ukrainian Books at the University of Toronto Library: A Catalogue (Toronto: Chair of Ukrainian Studies 1984).

The heading Galicia also appears in the subject catalogs of three major repositories: The New York Public Library, The Research Libraries, Dictionary Catalog of the Slavonic Collection, 44 vols, 2nd rev. ed. (Boston: G.K. Hall 1974), especially vol. XIV, pp. 126- 138; The Library Catalogs of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace-Stanford University: Catalog of the Western Language Collections [including Slavic languages], 63 vols and 2 supplements [11 vols] (Boston: G.K. Hall 1969-77), especially vol. XIX, pp. 60-66; and the several series published on acquisitions from 1950 to the present in the Library of Congress Catalog, Books: Subjects.

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Source: Magocsi P.R.. The roots of Ukrainian nationalism. Galicia as Ukraine's Piedmont. University of Toronto Press,2002. — 214 p.. 2002

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