NSK Digital Collections

An item from Croatica exhibitied as part of the fifth “Heritage at Hand at CroAtrium” event.

Croatica’s hidden Sherlock Holmes brought to light at 2026 “Heritage at Hand at CroAtrium” event #5

8 June 2026

The fifth event of the 2026 edition of Heritage at Hand at CroAtrium, the programme of the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) promoting Croatia’s national library collection, spotlighted the publications in which Sherlock Holmes’s Croatian impostor hid for decades. In her lecture, Professor at the Department of English Studies of the University of Rijeka’s Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Antonija Primorac presented the research as part of which she “caught” the fraudulent hero and its findings.

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Pages of the 1687 atlas by Vincenzo Maria Coronelli in the NSK Map Collection.

Rare 17th-century atlas added to treasures in NSK Map Collection

NSK collections

A rare 1687 atlas is the latest treasure in the Map Collection of the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK). Made by one of the most notable 17th-century cartographers, Franciscan Vincenzo Maria Coronelli (1650-1718), the atlas was printed in Paris by a prominent printer and engraver Nicolas Langlois. According to data included in it, the atlas was published in only 250 copies and only those who had previously purchased Coronelli’s globe could obtain it. 70 maps documenting ...

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