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PART A - ESSENTIAL
INFORMATION
1. Identity and Location
2. Legal Information
3. Identification
4. Management plan
5. Assessment
against the Selection Criteria
6. Consultation
7. Nominator
PART B - SUBSIDIARY
INFORMATION
8. Assessment of Risk
9. Preservation Assessment
PART A - ESSENTIAL INFORMATION
1.1. Name of the documentary heritage:
Bašagic's Collection of Islamic Manuscripts /later only
Bašagic's Collection/
1.2. Country:
Slovak Republic
1.3. State:
Slovak Republic
1.4. Address:
Michalská 1, 814 17 Bratislava
1.5. Name of organization or institution:
Univerzitná knižnica/The University Library
2.1. Owner:
The state - Slovak Republic
2.2. Custodian /name and contact details/:
The University Library, Michalská 1, 814 17 Bratislava
Tel.: +421.7.533.32.47; +421.7.533.49.58
Fax : +421.7.533.42.46; +421.7.533.49.58
Jozef M. Rydlo, Tel.: +421.7.5333.11.51 /ext.261/
Anna Polievková, Tel./Fax: +421.7.533.49.58
2.3. Legal status
a/ category of ownership:
state
b/ details of legal and administrative provisions for the preservation
of the documentary heritage:
Provisions for the preservation of the documentary heritage are guaranteed
in the University Library by the Library Act no. 53/1959, supplemented
by regulations of the Ministry of Culture of Slovak Republic no.2783/73,
registered in Acts no.29/1977 and 25/1983.
c/ accessibility:
As arising out of the Statutes of the University Library and above
mentioned Acts the documentary heritage is like the whole stock of the
library available to the public. For the reasons of protection and security
special documents of great value are available only for study in the study
room.
d/ copyright status:
The University Library, Bratislava and authors
2.4. Responsible administration
a/ The proper management of the documentary heritage
The University Library, Bratislava.
3.1. Description and inventory:
Within the holdings of the University Library the comprehensive and
unique collection of works of Bosnian scholars /15-19 cent./ and scientific
works of Islamic cultural heritage is contained. There is a great number
of hitherto unknown works written by Bosnian scholars in it. Apart from
those the collection contains several very valuable manuscripts of Islamic
cultural heritage.
3.2. Bibliographic/Registration details:
The whole of the archives is professionally processed and restored.
There are two catalogues available:
BAŠAGIC, Safvet beg: Popis orijentalnih rukopisa moje biblioteke. In:
Glasnik Zemaljskog muzeja u Bosni i Hercegovini, 28, 1916, 207-290. /Separatni
otisak iz GZM. Sarajevo, Zemaljska štamparija 1917./
BLAŠKOVIÈ, Jozef - PETRÁÈEK, Karel - VESELÝ,
Rudolf: Arabische, turkische und persische Handschriften der Universitätsbibliothek
in Bratislava. Bratislava, Univerzitná knižnica, Vydavate¾stvo
Slovenskej akadémie vied 1961. 551 pp, XXII tab.
3.4. History:
The base of the Safvet beg Bašagic's library /approximately one third/
was the family book collection established by his father. The rest of it
he himself had been searching for and purchasing throughout the whole former
Ottoman Empire in the course of 30 years. In 1924 he sold his collection
of manuscripts and printed books to the University Library in Bratislava.
Dr. Safvet beg Bašagic was the most significant connoiseur of Bosnian
Muslim culture and literature in 19th and 20th centuries. He wrote several
books and papers on these topics, which stayed unequalled up to this time
and became an important resource for scholars studying Bosnian culture
in later period /M. Šabanovic, Jan Rypka, Jozef Blaškoviè, Karel
Petráèek, etc./
Dr. Safvet beg Bašagic /1870-1934/ graduated as doctor "ex linguis
islamicis" from the University of Vienna, where he had studied at Joseph
von Karabacek, the world foremost specialist in Arabic paleography of his
time. Afterwards Bašagic was appointed as a Professor of Islamics at the
University of Zagreb and since 1919 to 1927 he had been working as a director
of the "Regional Museum" in Sarajevo. He himself had professionally processed
his collection /see 3.2./ and utilized in his synthetic works on Bosnian
Muslim culture /see 3.5./.
3.5. Bibliography:
BAŠAGIC, Safvet beg: Popis orijentalnih rukopisa moje biblioteke. In:
Glasnik Zemaljskog muzeja u Bosni i Hercegovini, 28, 1916, 207-290. /Separatni
otisak iz GZM. Sarajevo, Zemaljska štamparija 1917./
BLAŠKOVIÈ, Jozef - PETRÁÈEK, Karel - VESELÝ,
Rudolf: Arabische, turkische und persische Handschriften der Universitätsbibliothek
in Bratislava. Bratislava, Univerzitná knižnica, Vydavate¾stvo
Slovenskej akadémie vied 1961. 551 pp, XXII tab.
3.6. Names, qualifications and contact details of independent people
or organizations with expert knowledge about the values and provenance
of the documentary heritage:
PAULÍNY, Ján, PhD, Assoc. Professor of Arabic Literature
and Islam, Dept. of Arabic Studies, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University,
Gondova 2, 818 01 Bratislava. Tel.: +421.7.323.617, Fax: +421.7.366.016,
E-mail: sd@fphil.uniba.sk
Prof. Dr. KOPÈAN, Vojtech, CSc., Institute of Oriental Studies,
Slovak Academy of Sciences, Klemensova 19, 811 01
Bratislava. Tel.: +421.7.326.321.
Bašagiè's collection apart from the fact that it contains unique
sources for world Islamic culture, after the fire of National Library in
Sarajevo, has become also the solitary and rare collection of documents
of Bosnian Muslim literature.
Concept and procedures in developing projects within Memory of the
World programme are based on methodical materials of UNESCO and with regard
to the experience of the National Library in Prague, with which we cooperate.
We have been consulting also representatives of Albertina ICOM Company
Prague. The University Library is considering the possibility of setting
up its own centre for digitization of rare documents. Costs assessment
- 3.5 mil. Sk /cca USD 110.000,-/.
The University Library is a state budgetary institution.
The budget covers all costs for main activities of the library. All
of the Islamic manuscripts have been restored. Unfortunately, the budget
is not sufficient for special safeguarding and digitization of the documents.
The manuscripts are kept in a special department of the Uiversity Library
which is called Cabinet of old and rare printed books and manuscripts.
Storing rooms are equiped with metal shelves and permanent temperature
/17-19 C/ and humidity of air /50-60%/ are being maintained there. The
documents are prevented from the direct influence of light, windows of
the rooms are covered with protective foils. Fire and security signalization
is installed in the premises. The Cabinet is separated from the other storage
rooms of the library by a metal shutter - fire-curtain. Manuscripts are
handled with special care and only when inevitable. Their reproduction
is limited, some reproduction technologies completely excluded. Manuscripts
are available for study only in the premises of the Cabinet and in the
presence of its staff.
In the complex preservation management plan of the University Library
a preservation plan of a specific stock of old and rare manuscripts and
printed books is included also. Bašagic's collection is a part of that
stock. Preservation plan accepts and reflects strict demands for preservation
of old manuscripts and printed books and so the library has been purchasing
and modernizing its means of preservation by stages /depending on financial
possibilities/.
5. Assessment against the Selection Criteria
5.1. Bašagic's collection of manuscripts through its significance as
a outstanding and comprehensive documentation of Bosnia's written literature
in 16th-19th centuries reaches world-wide importance. The collection is
showing the history of Bosnia,Turkish state administartion and religious
situation in Bosnia in 16th-19th centuries. Apart from that it is a unique
evidence of literary /prose, poetry/ and scientific /Islamic theology,
law, history, philosophy, Korans sciences, traditions, Islamic mysticism/
activities of Bosnian scholars. As a part of the Islamic cultural heritage
the collection complies with the criteria of time, place, subject and social
value.
5.2. The collection enriches the Islamic and world cultural heritage
with written literature of Bosnian Muslim scholars, writing in Arabic,
Turkish and Persian languages. It is the most comprehensive literary monument
of Bosnian cultural history.
5.3. The collection contains authographs and unique pieces written
mainly by Bosnian scholars. Besides those several rarity works by other
Islamic authors, e.g. Logics /Kitáb almantiq/, a unique complete
manuscript by al-Farabi or thus far the biggest famous manuscript collection
of Four-lined verses by Omar Chajjám and other precious works.
5.4. After the war in former Yugoslavia, as a result of which many
important monuments of Bosnian culture and literature have been damaged
/National Library in Sarajevo burnt out and some other libraries were damaged
too/ the collection represents a unique documentary heritage of priceless
value. No other as for subject integral collection of similar importance
has been saved in the world.
The aim of the pilot project for the Memory of the World register is
the preservation and safeguarding of the most important works of this collection
as well as making them available to the widest public.
Thorough consultancies were held with
a/, b/ the owner and the custodian of the collection
c/ the Slovak Committee for Memory of the World Programme
7.1. Name:
The University Library Bratislava in cooperation with the Slovak Committee
for Memory of the World Programme
7.2. Relationship to the documentary heritage:
- owner - custodian
7.3. Contact person:
see art.2.2.
7.4. Contact details:
see art.2.2.
PART B - SUBSIDIARY INFORMATION
- environmental and physical conditions are reasonable
- budget determined for the physical preservation of selected documentary
heritage is a part of the total budget of the University Library and is
fully covered by state.
Manuscripts from the Bašagic's collection represent a part of the stock
of the Cabinet of old and rare printed books and manuscripts of the University
Library. Mostly they are used for study, scientific research and exhibition
purposes.
By their content they represent a valuable information resource for
scholars interested in history and culture of Bosnia, history, culture
and science of Arabic, Persian and Turkish countries.
9.1. - Present physical state:
good
- History of preservation:
University Library purchased the collection of manuscripts in 1924.
First the manuscripts had been professionally processed /see 3.2./. In
the course of 60s all books from Bašagic's collection were restored and
located in specially protected rooms of the University Library - the Cabinet
of old and rare printed books and manuscripts.
- Current preservation policy in relation to proposed nominated
documentary heritage:
is guaranteed by the Library Act and State Care of Monuments Act no.
27/1987.
- Organization resposible for preservation:
University Library, Michalská 1, 814 17 Bratislava, Slovak Republic.