Spanish book in Siberia: to studying Stroganov book collection of Tomsk State University Scientific library

Interest to the European culture, peculiar to educated circles of the Russian society of the XVIII-XIX centuries, found its reflection in the collections of noble libraries. Stroganovs' book collection which is storing in Scientific library of Tomsk State University is an example of that. Studying of patrimonial library of Stroganov, assumes identification of its internal collections from which it is possible to distinguish the Spanish editions of the XVIII-XIX centuries. Research of this book massif, small on the number, is represented as important task, allowing to open the spiritual needs range of outstanding domestic bibliophiles of our country, to give the substantial characteristic of those book treasures which, collected by their diligence, became property of the Siberian university reader. The Spanish book problems are not enough developed in the science of our country. There are researches of Ukrainian scientists connected with identification and the description of the Spanish books in Odessa State University library. Works of the Russian specialists in the Spanish researches studying questions of the Russian-Spanish relations give a valuable material. The articles of A.I. Saplin and E.P. Kudryavtseva reveal G.A. Stroganov's activity as the Russian envoy in Madrid that allows considering the fact of connection of the library owner with the Spanish reality as possible incentive motive of collecting the Spanish books. The problem of identification of Spanish books in Stroganov' collection of the Tomsk State University Scientific library for the first time was formulated by the author of the present article. For the solution of the objective the foreign books catalog of Imperial Tomsk University was studied; all revealed editions were seen by de visu. Identification and studying of the array of the specified documents was carried out with use of bibliographic method by means of which their selection; various ways of their grouping, including language, chronological, thematic were used; and also the description by a standard technique was carried out. As a result of the conducted research it was revealed in Stroga-nov collection about one hundred documents revealing Spanish subject. These are works on country history, memoirs, historical documents, literary works, descriptions of sights of Spain, graphic works, maps. The vast majority of these works was published in Paris, Amsterdam and other European cities. Spanish editions proper in Stroganov' book collection are revealed as no more than ten. Among them - the French-Portuguese dictionary published in 1772 in Barcelona; calendar for 1817 and Madrid guide; Spanish Constitution of Barcelona edition of 1820; collection of the engraved portraits of the well-known Spaniards, published in Madrid from 1791; collection of maps made by Thomas Lopez, Spanish cartographer of XVIII - the beginning of the XIX century. The four-volume Madrid edition of "Don Quixote" of Cervantes (1780) and the work of the XVIII century author L. Soler "Glorified Cartagena" are considered in detail.

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