Armeniaca
Collection materials in format
The Armeniaca Collection contains material in the Armenian language printed in the Russian empire between 1828 and1917, received as deposit copies.
Collection description
The Armeniaca Collection contains material in the Armenian language printed in the Russian empire between 1828 and1917, received as deposit copies.
The collection has nearly 3,000 titles of ancient and modern Armenian literature as well as 87 serial titles.
The collection contains fiction and poetry, devotional literature, history, folklore, grammar guides, dictionaries, translated literature, economical and political publications, newspapers and periodicals as well as various ephemera.
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Temporal coverage of the collection
the Middle Ages beginning of the modern age modern age (turn of the 18th and 19th century to the 20th century) modern times (1900-)Main collection
Special CollectionsParent collection
The legal deposit collections from the period of Russian ruleRestrictions of use
Only for Special Collections Reading RoomCollection themes
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Catalogue information
More information about cataloguing
Eriksson, Tor-Erik, Libri Armeniaci Bibliothecae Universitatis Helsingiensis. 1951. 1–3 + Supplementum. Helsinki 1951. 653, 76 s. (handwritten catalogue)
The catalogue is digitised in Doria (in three parts, see the links).
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Provenance
Legal deposit collection received in 1828–1917.
Collector
Helsinki University Library