Open Access Library: Bibliotheca Chersonessitana

Bibliotheca Chersonessitana

Are you interested in Crimean history and archaeology antique editions? Do you agree to use the scans? If your answer is "yes", we are pleased to present a collection of the late 19th - early 20th centuries periodicals and other rare books of our library stock. In 1893 Karl Kazimirovich Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich (1847-1907), the founder of the archaeological museum in Chersonesos, settled to begin collecting books for a future library. 

In one of his letters to the Imperial Archaeological Commission he wrote: " I cannot imagine a museum without a library" For a few years he managed to create an outstanding collection of books in history and archaeology, numismatics and arts, geography and other disciplines. These books are the precious core of our library collection. There are more than 30 thousands of volumes in the library holdings and almost a half is rare and valuable ones. Just a few people can get access to use these materials. According to the library status, publications are available only for Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos researchers and scholars collaborating with the Preserve within joint research agreements. If it were not hi-tech the situation would keep remaining the same for a long time. Several years ago, our library, in cooperation with the Institute of Classical Archaeology at the University of Texas at Austin (USA) and with the generous support of the Packard Humanities Institute launched a project of rare editions digitization and providing access to scans by Internet. We are also working on developing online library catalogue. It is an ongoing project and requires time, so we decided to make our library open at least for Internet audience and share with you already digitized materials. We promise to update the virtual collections with new publications. You are welcome!

 Chersonesos museum publications

Grinevich K. E. WALLS OF TAURIC CHERSONESOS. Burial vault no. 1012 under the city walls and Chersonesos gate discovered in 1899 = KHERSONESSKIY SBORNIK 1 / Chersonesos Museum; Glavnauka of Narkompross of RSFSR. Vol. 1. Sevastopol: State Chersonesos Museum Press, 1926. 72 p., ill. (1926)
KHERSONESSKIY SBORNIK 2 (= BULLETIN DU MUSÉE D’ÉTAT DE CHERSONÈSE TAURIQUE 2) / State Chersonesos Museum, ed. by K. E. Grinevich, the director of the Chersonesos Museum. Vol. 2. Sevastopol: State Chersonesos Museum Press, 1927. 296 p., ill. (1927)
KHERSONESSKIY SBORNIK 3 (= BULLETIN DU MUSÉE D’ÉTAT DE CHERSONÈSE TAURIQUE 3) / State Chersonesos Museum, ed. by K. E. Grinevich, full member of the Scholarly Research Institute of Archaeology and Art History of the Russian Association of the Scholarly Research Institutes in the Social Science. Vol. 3. Sevastopol: State Chersonesos Museum Press, 1930. 248 p., ill.+ map. (1930)
KHERSONESSKIY SBORNIK 4: Materials for the archaeology of Tauric Chersonesos / State Chersonesos Museum. Vol. 4. Simferopol: Krymizdat, 1948. 126 p., ill. (1948)
KHERSONESSKIY SBORNIK 5: Materials for the history of Tauric Chersonesos / Ministry of culture of Ukrainian SSR; Chersonesos State Historical and Archaeological Museum. Vol. 5. Simferopol: Krymizdat, 1959. 244 p., ill. (1959)
KHERSONESSKIY SBORNIK 6 = Strzheletskiy S. F. Kleroi of Tauric Chersonesos: to the history of agriculture in the Crimea, ed. by prof. A. S. Bashkirov. Vol. 6. Simferopol: Krymizdat, 1961. 247 p., ill. (1961)
KHERSONESSKIY SBORNIK 7. – Volume 7. – Sevastopol: Akhtiar, 1996. - 200 p., ill. (1996)
KHERSONESSKIY SBORNIK 8: Dedicated to 170th anniversary of the archaeological study of Tauric Chersonesos. – Collected papers. / National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos; Crimean Branch of the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: editor-in-chief M. I. Zolotaryov. - Volume 8. - Sevastopol: Akhtiar, 1997. - 115 p., ill. (1997)
PROCEEDINGS OF THE CHERSONESOS MUSEUM 1 / ed. by I. A. Antonova and V. V. Borisova Volume 1. Simferopol: Krymizdat, 1960. 76 p., ill. (1960)
PROCEEDINGS OF THE CHERSONESOS MUSEUM 2 / ed. by I. A. Antonova and V. V. Borisova Volume 2. Simferopol: Krymizdat, 1961. 92 p., ill. (1961)
PROCEEDINGS OF THE CHERSONESOS MUSEUM 3 / ed. by V. V. Borisova. Volume 3. Simferopol: Krymizdat, 1963. 92 p., ill. (1963)
PROCEEDINGS OF THE CHERSONESOS MUSEUM 4: Zeno’s Tower. 1960–1961 investigations / ed. by I. A. Antonova. Volume 4. Simferopol: Krym, 1969. 96 p. (1969)
Grinevich K. E. ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF THE EXCAVATIONS IN CHERSONESOS. 1827–1927: A historical essay with an excursion plan / State Chersonesos Museum. Sevastopol, 1927. 54 p., ill. (1927)

OTHER

Inscriptiones antiquae orae septentrionalis Ponti Euxini Graecae et Latinae. by V V Latyshev; Russkoe arkheologicheskoe obshchestvo. Vol. 1. Inscriptiones Tyrae, Olbiae, Chersonesi Tauricae aliorum locorum a Danubio usque ad regnum Bosporanum. (IOSPE. I2) Petrop oli, MCMXVI (1916)
IONIA AND THE EAST: six lectures delivered before the University of London by David G. Hogarth. Translated from English by P. V. Latyshev, editing and foreword by B. V. Farmakovskiy. St. Petersburg, 1914. 112 p. (1914)
(1872)

Bibliotheca Chersonessitana also includes a set of digitized journals in .djvu format, which I will index separately.