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Catalogue of the Prince Yusupov library

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Catalogue of the Prince Yusupov library
St. Petersburg, 1800
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The handwritten catalogue of the Prince Yusupov library (1800) consists of 16 sections and includes 10,859 items. The names of the sections are in French with one exception, i.e., ‘Russian Books’. Most of the records were made by one person in a beautiful calligraphic font.
The catalogue is a rare example of a handwritten bibliographic manual of the turn of 19th century with the most complete information about the book collection.

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The catalogue shows which books were included in the Prince Yusupov library and how they were sorted: 

1. History. Politics. Memoirs. Law — 1728 items
2. Academic literature. Encyclopaedias. Dictionaries — 781 items
3. Novels. Poetry. Fiction. Theatre — 2138 items
4. The Ancient World and fine arts — 599 items
5. Travel literature — 771 items
6. Architecture and maps — 210 items
7. Agriculture. Botany — 617 items
8. Natural history. Physics. Chemistry. Medicine — 651 items
9. Mathematics. Astronomy. Warfare — 87 items
10. Bibles and manuscripts — 109 items
11. Classical writers, Latin and Greek, and translations — 1407 items
12. Italian writers — 701 items
13. Russian writers — 880 items
14. Sheet music — 51 items
15. French operas — 31 items
16. Catalogues — 98 items 
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