The Hilandar Research Library (HRL), located in the
Thompson Library on the campus of
Ohio State University
The Ohio State University (Ohio State or OSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio, United States. A member of the University System of Ohio, it was founded in 1870. It is one ...
, has the largest collection of medieval Slavic manuscripts on microform in the world.
Hilandar Research Library Collection
The collection is composed of microform material from more than 100 different private, museum, and library collections in dozens of countries. It includes many
Cyrillic
The Cyrillic script ( ) is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking countries in Southeastern Europe, Ea ...
manuscripts on microform, the majority from various monasteries on
Mount Athos, Greece, including the entire Slavic collection of the
Hilandar Monastery. The library also contains a 100,000 volume reference collection. The entire collection can be viewed in the Jack and Jan Creighton Special Collections Reading Room (Thompson Library). The HRL shares its space with the Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies (RCMSS). Both the Hilandar Library and the Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies were developed as an outgrowth of the original Hilandar Research Project, which ran from 1969 to 1982.
Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies
Founded in 1984, the Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies (RCMSS) is an independent center of the Ohio State University College of Humanities and is dedicated to the promotion of medieval Slavic Studies. The Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies fosters and supports research and collaboration in medieval Slavic languages, linguistics, history, and culture.
See also
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Slavistics
Slavic (American English) or Slavonic (British English) studies, also known as Slavistics, is the academic field of area studies concerned with Slavic peoples, languages, literature, history, and culture. Originally, a Slavist or Slavicist was ...
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Slavic languages
The Slavic languages, also known as the Slavonic languages, are Indo-European languages spoken primarily by the Slavs, Slavic peoples and their descendants. They are thought to descend from a proto-language called Proto-Slavic language, Proto- ...
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Cyrillic Alphabet
The Cyrillic script ( ) is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking countries in Southeastern Europe, Easte ...
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Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script ( ) is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic languages, Slavic, Turkic languages, Turkic, Mongolic languages, Mongolic, Uralic languages, Uralic, C ...
References
External links
The Hilandar Research LibraryManuscript Collections on Microform in the HRLThompson LibraryResource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies
Ohio State University buildings
University and college academic libraries in the United States
Libraries in Columbus, Ohio
Slavic studies
Hilandar Monastery
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