Collections compiled at the Manuscripts department

F7. 2275 items: letters from 1770–1925. In Lithuanian, Russian, Polish, French, Latin, and German.  Described in a card index.  The autograph collection is available through the Digital Repository.

The collection was put together by instructors at Old Vilnius University (the first half of the 19th century), Vilnius cultural activists, and scholars. In about 1933, Ludwik Abramowicz (1879–1939) classified it by the last names of the letters’ addressees and senders.

Acquired in 1940 from the State Wroblewski Library (the present-day Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences).

F8. 338 items: manuscripts and other documents from 1906. In Lithuanian, Russian, Polish, Latin, Italian, and French. Described in the Manuscripts Department’s card catalogue and is also available in the electronic Manuscripts  Catalogue.

The compilers of the collection are committee members of the Society of Friends of the State Wroblewski Library in 1931–1939.

The collection was acquired in 1940 from the State Wroblewski Library (the present-day Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences).

F9. 3649 items: manuscripts from  1527–1959. In Polish, Russian, Lithuanian, French, Belarusian, Latin, and German.  Described in the Manuscripts Department’s card catalogue.

The collection was compiled by Józef Bieliński (1848–1926),  Tadeusz Wróblewski (1858–1925),  Ludwik Abramowicz (1879–1939), and members of Society of Friends of the State Wroblewski Library.

Acquired in 1940 from the State Wroblewski Library (the present-day Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences).

F10. 726 items from 1521–1957: manuscripts, cuttings from publications, and other documents. In Lithuanian, Ruthenian, Polish, and German.  Described in the Manuscripts Department’s card catalogue.

The collection was put together at the Vilnius Museum of Art and contains documents that came to the Museum alongside various exhibits.

Received in 1954 from the Vilnius Museum of Art.

F11. 45 items: manuscripts from 1573–1872. In Ruthenian, Russian, Polish, and Latin. Described in the Manuscripts Department’s card catalogue.

The compilers of the collection are Prof. Konstatinas  Jablonskis (1892–1960), a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Lithuanian SSR, and Prof. Povilas Pakarklis (1902–1955), a corresponding member of the Academy.

Received in 1949 m. iš from the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Lithuanian SSR.

F12. 4891 items: manuscripts and other documents from 1506–1955. In Lithuanian, Latin, Ruthenian, Russian, Polish, and German.  Described in the Manuscripts Department’s card catalogue.

The compiler of the collection is the library of the former Kaunas State University. After the library dissolved its Manuscripts Department in 1950, the uncatalogued manuscripts were transferred to the Central Library of the Academy of Sciences of the Lithuanian SSR, and the catalogued ones, to the Scientific Library of the Vilnius State University.

F13. 33 items: manuscripts from 945–1567 (transcripts from 1913–1915, translations, drafts). In Russian, Polish, and Latin. Described in the Manuscripts Department’s card catalogue.

The compiler of the collection is  Stanisław Ptaszycki (1853–1933), historian, archivist, editor of Volumes 16-17 of the serial publication of chronicles entitled “Полное Собрание русских летописей” (The Complete Collection of Russian Chronicles).

Received in 1941 from the Vilnius Society of the Friends of Science (1907–1939).

F16. 258 items: manuscripts from the 15th-19th century (originals and transcripts).  In Ruthenian, Russian, Latin, Polish, and German.  Described in the inventory book printed in 1903.  Some of the items are available in the digital depository of musical manuscripts, Musicalia.

The collection was put together by staff members of the Manuscripts Department of the Vilnius Public Library in 1871–1901. It consists of various estate collections (most of which came from the Sapieha and Sołtan estates), monasterial collections, and various individual manuscripts

Received in 1946-1951 from the V. I. Lenin State Library of the USSR (now the Russian State Library) in Moscow alongside other collections, which had been evacuated from Vilnius in 1915 by the Tsarist authorities.

F17. 293 items: manuscripts from the 16th-19th century (originals and transcripts). In Russian, Ruthenian, Polish, Latin, French, and German. Described in the inventory book printed in 1903.

The collection was put together by staff members of the Manuscripts Department of the Vilnius Public Library in 1869–1901. It consists of various items, most of which came from the Sapieha archive in Derechin and also from other estates in Lithuania and Belarusia confiscated in the wake of the suppression of the 1863 uprising, as well as from the Vilnius Museum of Antiquities.

It was received in 1946-1951 from the V. I. Lenin State Library of the USSR (now the Russian State Library) in Moscow alongside other collections, which had been evacuated from Vilnius in 1915 by the Tsarist authorities.

F18. 264 items from the 16th-19th century (originals and transcripts). In Ruthenian, Lithuanian, Russian, Latvian, Polish, Latin, French, Italian, and German.  Described in the inventory book printed in 1906.  Some of the items are available in the digital depository of musical manuscripts, Musicalia.

The collection was put together in 1870–1904 at the Manuscripts Department of the Vilnius Public Library. It consists of documents originating from various confiscated estates and from the Vilnius Museum of Antiquities (1855–1920).

Received in 1946-1951 from the V. I. Lenin State Library of the USSR (now the Russian State Library) in Moscow alongside other collections, which had been evacuated from Vilnius in 1915 by the Tsarist authorities.

F19. 331 items from the 11th – 19th century: manuscripts (originals and transcripts), drawings, artistic bookbindings, sheet music. In Church Slavonic, Ruthenian, and Russian.  Described in the inventory book printed in 1882. Some of the items are available in the digital depository of musical manuscripts, Musicalia.

The collection was compiled by Piotr Giltebrandt, an employee of the Vilnius Public Library, who worked on it in 1859–1881 together with Flavian Dobriansky.

The collection was received in 1946 from the V. I. Lenin State Library of the USSR (now the Russian State Library) in Moscow alongside other collections, which had been evacuated from Vilnius in 1915 by the Tsarist authorities.

F20. 6558 items from 1476–1924:  originals and transcripts. In Latin, Ruthenian, Russian, Polish, Lithuanian, French, and German. Described in the Manuscripts Department’s card catalogue.

The compiler of the collection is Tadeusz Wróblewski (1858–1925), who classified chronologically various single manuscripts or sets of manuscripts, mostly court materials dating from the period of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

The collection was acquired in 1940 from the State Wroblewski Library (the present-day Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences).

F21. 2311 items from 1566–1944: manuscripts (originals and transcripts), manuscript books. In Ruthenian, Belarusian, Lithuanian, Russian, Polish, Latin, Italian, French, Tatar, and German.  Described in the Manuscripts Department’s card catalogue and in a collection overview.

The compiler of the collection is   the Ivan Lutskevich Belarusian Museum in Vilnius.

The collection was acquired in 1945 from the former Belarusian Museum in Vilnius, which operated in 1921–1945.

F22. 124 items from the 13th century – 1914: manuscript (including pergament) books, and other manuscripts (originals and  transcripts). In Ruthenian, Lithuanian, Russian, Belarusian, Polish, Italian, Latin, French, and German. Described in an overview text and in auxiliary indexes.  Some of the items are available in the digital depository of musical manuscripts, Musicalia.

The collection was compiled at the Manuscripts Department of the Central Library of the Academy of Sciences of the Lithuanian SSR in 1947–1952 from items which undoubtedly came from the former Vilnius Public Library.  They used to be held in the Vilnius Museum of Antiquities (active in 1855–1920), some in the Count Muravyov Museum (active in 1898–1915).

The collection was received in 1946–1961 from the V. I. Lenin State Library of the USSR (now the Russian State Library) in Moscow.

F23. 50 items: printed documents from 1914–1918. In German, Lithuanian, and Polish.  Described in the Manuscripts Department’s card catalogue.

The compiler of the collection is Jonas Basanavičius, who worked on it in 1915–1919 at the Lithuanian Scientific Society in Vilnius.

The collection was received in 1956 from the Institute of Lithuanian Language and Literature of the Academy of Sciences of the Lithuanian SSR (now the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore).

F 24. 273 items: manuscripts and other documents from 1615–1928. In Ruthenian, Russian, Polish, Latin, and French. Described in an overview text and in auxiliary indexes. 

The collection was compiled by members of the Society of Friends of the State Wroblewski Library in 1930–1939. It mostly consists of the manuscripts formerly belonging to the owner of the Beniūnai estate, lawyer and vice-procurator of the Radziwiłł estates, Józef Karzcewki, who lived in the first half of the 19th century; 18th-century nobles Felicjan and Michał Kurdwanowski  (deputy pantlers of Halych);  19th-century director of the Vilnius Observatory Piotr Sławiński; and Polish architect and journalist Juliusz Wasiutyński (1857–1928).

The collection was acquired in 1940 from the State Wroblewski Library (the present-day Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences).

F159. 110 items from 1941–1945: manuscripts, transcripts of documents, photographs, and press cuttings. In Lithuanian, Russian, and German.  Described in the Manuscripts Department’s card catalogue.

The compiler of the collection is the Republican Commission of the Lithuanian SSR for Investigating the Hitlerite Villainous Acts and Calculating the Incurred Damages, which was  established in Vilnius on July 25 1944.  In addition, there were formed 26 more such commissions on city and regional level. The Commission completed its work in 1945.

The collection was acquired in 1946 from Juozas Jurginis, a member of the Commission.

F198. 860 items: manuscripts and typescripts from 1473–1933. In Lithuanian, Latin, Ruthenian, Russian, Polish, and German.

The collection was received in 1950 alongside 87 other uncatalogued manuscript collections of the Kaunas Vytautas Magnus University Library that were given over to the Central Library of the Academy of Sciences of the Lithuanian SSR.

F208. 154 items from 1934–1944. In Lithuanian, German, and Polish. Described in the Manuscripts Department’s card catalogue.

The collection was acquired in 1946 from the Board of the Academy of Sciences of the Lithuanian SSR.

F209. 527 items from 1922–1944. In Lithuanian, Russian, and Polish.  Described in the Manuscripts Department’s card catalogue.

The collection was acquired after the reorganization of the Vytautas Magnus University Library. All its property and most of the publications from its holdings were handed over to the Library of the Kaunas Polytechnic Institute.  The rest of the publications were transferred to the libraries of Vilnius University, the Institute of the Party History (active in 1946–1990) and the Kaunas Medical Institute.  The manuscripts collections were given over to the Vilnius University Library and the Library of the Academy of Sciences of the Lithuanian SSR (now the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences).

F214. 143 items from 1834–1940: manuscripts, typescripts, publications. In Lithuanian, English, German, French, Polish, and Russian.  Described in the Manuscripts Department’s card catalogue.

The collection was received in 1950 from then Kaunas State University and supplemented in 1968–1969.

F215. 3844 items from 1933–1942: manuscripts, transcripts, typescripts, autographs. In Lithuanian and Russian.  The collection is described in the Manuscripts Department’s card catalogue and is still being catalogued.

The collection was acquired in 1946 from the then Book Chamber.

F245. 38 items from 1935–1940: collected press cuttings and illustrations.  In Lithuanian, Russian, English, German, and French.  Described in the Manuscripts Department’s card catalogue.

The collection was acquired in 1962 from the Institute of Lithuanian Language and Literature of the Academy of Sciences of the Lithuanian SSR (now the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore).

F251. 355 items from 1541–1932: manuscripts, typescripts, and publications. In Polish, Russian, Ruthenian, Latin, French, and Lithuanian.  Described in the Manuscripts Department’s card catalogue.

The collection was acquired in 1962 from the Institute of Lithuanian Language and Literature of the Academy of Sciences of the Lithuanian SSR (now the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore).

F320. 2386 items: artworks from 1748–1970. Described in the Manuscripts Department’s card catalogue.

The collection was received in 1989 from the Department of Old, Rare and Cartographic Publications of the Library of the Academy of Sciences of the Lithuanian SSR.

F327. Partially catalogued, 65 temporary items: documents from 1943–1991. Described in a temporary item list.

F332. Partially catalogued, 1277 temporary items. Photocopies of 16th-century documents. Described in a temporary item list.

F347. Uncatalogued.

The collection was acquired on January 24, 1996 from the Lithuanian Institute of History (Chairman of the Commission M. Tamošiūnas).

F362. Uncatalogued.

Documents from 1972–1990.
The documents were received from Jonas Agintas, former Head of the Finance and Accounting Department of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences.

F396. Uncatalogued. Documents from 2000–2012.

F417. Uncatalogued.

The documents were received from the chairman of the Support Fund for Investigation of Communist Crimes, Juozas Artūras Flikaitis.