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NSK staff unpacking valuable material donated to NSK by Ms Marija Orač.

Medieval maps and invaluable prints and ephemera donated to NSK collections

26 May 2025

On 26 May 2025, by way of a generous donation by Ms Marija Orač from Luxembourg, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) received valuable items now making part of the Library’s Map Collection and Print Collection. Especially valuable are the items which NSK has not held in its collections so far, such as several 18th-century maps of today’s Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and one of Croatian traditional regions, Slavonia (Le Royaume de Hongrie autora G. Valcka (Amsterdam, 1702); Principatus Transilvaniae In ...

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Hieronymus, Vitae sanctorum patrum. NSK Manuscripts and Old Books Collection.

NSK research project on Croatian incunabula receives grant from Adris Foundation

3 October 2024

The National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) has been awarded a grant from the Adris Foundation for its research project on Croatian incunabula, Croatia’s first printed books. With the €7,000 grant, awarded as a result of a personal donation by the President of the Adris grupa Ltd. Management Board and the Adris grupa Ltd. Supervisory Board Ante Vlahović, NSK will publish a monograph (Hrvatski prvotisci) presenting the results of more than a decade of research into the Croatian books dating from the 15th century. The research, which the Library conducted in cooperation with several partners, identified as many as 86 editions of Croatian incunabula in institutions all across Croatia, documenting ...

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