Ucrainica at Harvard
The Ukrainian Research Institute's 25th-Anniversary Exhibition at Houghton Library, Harvard University

38. Bukvar'
(Primer)
L'viv: Ivan Fedorovych, 1574.

A unique copy of the first Church Slavonic primer. Ex libris: Count Grigorii Stroganov Ð Serge Diahilev Ð Boris Kochno. One other copy was discovered in England and acquired by the British Library in 1982. Roman Jakobson edited a facsimile of the Harvard copy and published it in the Harvard Library Bulletin 9 (1955).

A Gift of Bayard L. Kilgour, Jr., 1951.


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