batch_1776700887 20260420190127000 National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Institute of Encyclopedic Research esu@esu.com.ua National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Institute of Encyclopedic Research Entsyklopedychnyi visnyk Ukrainy [The Encyclopedia Herald of Ukraine] Entsykl. visn. Ukr. 2706-9990 2707-000X 2023 15 Halyna Kovalchuk Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8843-9584 The article presents the old printed encyclopedic and reference editions stored in different collections of the Old and Rare Books Department of the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine (VNLU) – incunabula, paleotypes, foreign old books, rare editions, editions in civil and Cyrillic font. The largest number among them is foreign old printed books, but information on domestic editions is also provided. The main goal of the publication is to draw the attention of specialists to these forgotten book monuments of the past and, if possible, to return them to scientific circulation. The methodology of the research and their subsequent quite brief characteristics involved structuring the information according to the chronology of book printing, importance in the society of the time, typological classification of publications, etc. For the convenience of further research work with these sources, each description of the monument is accompanied by a shelf number, assigned by the department. The study has revealed a significant amount and historical importance of encyclopedic and reference publications of the 15th and 18th centuries in the collections of a single specialized department of the library. It is reasonable to continue studying copies of encyclopedic editions of the 19th – early 20th centuries in the collections of the Old and Rare Books Department, as well as conducting a similar study in the collections of other specialized departments of the VNLU. 2023 9 24 10.37068/evu.15.2 https://evu.encyclopedia.kyiv.ua/article/108 https://evu.encyclopedia.kyiv.ua/doi/10.37068/evu.15.2.pdf Chernysh, N. (2009). Narysy z istorii svitovoi entsyklopedychnoi spravy [Essays on the history of the world encyclopedia sciences]. Kyiv: Our culture and science [in Ukrainian]. Dobko, T (2014). The encyclopedia fund of the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine: formation and development. In Proceedings of the 2-d International Conference on Ukrainian Encyclopedia Studies (pp. 92-98). Kyiv: The NASU Institute of Encyclopedic 10.37068/ue.2011.13 Research. https://doi.org/10.37068/ue.2011.13 [in Ukrainian] Isayevych, Y., Zhelezniak, M., Senkus, R. (2009). Entsyklopediia [Encyclopedia]. In I. Dziuba, A. Zhukovsky, et al. The Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine (vol. 9, pp. 206–209). Kyiv: The NASU Institute of Encyclopedic Research [in Ukrainian]. Miaskova, T. (2014). Osobova biblioteka Volodymyra Bonifatiiovycha Antonovycha: istorychna dolia ta suchasnyi stan [The Personal Library of Volodymyr Bonifatiyovych Antonovych: History and Current State]. Academic Papers of The Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, 40, 317–340. [in Ukrainian]. Paszyński, W. (2014). Czarna legenda “Nowych Aten” Benedykta Chmielowskiego i próby jej przezwyciężenia Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. Prace Historyczne, 141, 37–59 [in Polish]. 10.37068/ue.2013.20 Serbin, O. (2014). General system of human knowledge in The Encyclopedia of Diderot and D’Alembert as a model of a systematic organization in the Enlightenment. In M. Zhelezniak (Ed.), Proceedings of the 3 International Conference on Ukrainian Encyclopedia Studies (pp. 147–162). Kyiv: NASU Institute of Encyclopedic Research. https://doi.org/10.37068/ue.2013.20 [in Ukrainian]. Starostin, B. (1999). Izuchenie i perevody “Estestvennoj istorii” Plinija v Rossii v XVII–ХХ vv. [Study and translations of Pliny’s “Natural History” in Russia in the 17th-20th centuries]. In Proceedings of the Annual Scientific Conference of the Institute of History of Natural Science and Technology (pp. 131–138). Moscow [in Russian].