The British Library Makes Two More Endangered Archives Programme Digital Collections Available Online

Two new digital collection from the British Library’s Endangered Archives Program are now available online.
1. Collection: EAP 630: Manuscripts from Kokand Khanate (1710-1876) court library from the museum sources of Kokand and Fergana Valley and private collections
From the EAP Blog:

The Khanate of Kokand was founded in 1709 within the territory of modern Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan and was abolished after the Russian annexation of the state in 1876. After the establishment of the Turkestan governorship by the Russian Empire in 1876, many manuscripts of the Kokand court library were taken away to Russian collections or to small collections in the Fergana Valley. This pilot project surveyed some of the thousands of books and manuscripts held by the Kokand Literary Museum in Uzbekistan, as well as other museums and private collections in the Fergana Valley, with the aim to hopefully organise a future project to preserve many of these records.

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1. Collection: EAP613: Digital preservation and cataloguing of early printed Armenian maps, periodicals and newspapers, and making them accessible online

This project digitised maps and periodicals held in the collections of The National Library of Armenia (NLA), the largest repository of printed Armenian materials in the world. The first Armenian printed book ‘Urbatagirk’ (Venice 1512), the first printed periodical ‘Azdarar’ (Madras 1794), the first printed Bible in Armenian (Amsterdam, 1666) and the first printed map ‘Hamatarats Ashkharhatsuyts’ (Amsterdam 1695) are some of the treasures preserved in the NLA
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The project digitised over 18,000 pages, mainly of Armenian newspapers and journals, but also a small collection of maps dating from the 17^th to 20^th centuries. The newspapers and journals cover some important dates in Armenian and Soviet history and include interesting front page imagery on the dates of the 20^th anniversary of the Russian revolution, and the death of Lenin, as just two examples.

Learn More About EAP 613
Read the Complete Blog Post (Includes several images)
See Also: Browse List of All Endangered Archives Program Projects

See Also: The British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme Releases Three New Collections Online (March 3, 2016)

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