Historical and bibliological studies of book heritage by Roman Lutsyk (1900–1974)

Abstrakt

The article reviews the academic heritage of Roman Lutsyk, long-time head of the Rare Books Department at the Vasyl Stefanyk Lviv National Scientific Library of Ukraine (LNSLU). It presents R. Lutsyk’s academic achievements in the field of book studies, particularly in the study of early printed books, and clarifies his theoretical and methodological approaches to the formation and academic study of collections of incunabula and post-incunabula. The author emphasizes that one of R. Lutsyk’s most important feats is the carefully compiled collection of early printed cyrillic books in the Rare Books Department, which is one of the most complete collections of historical and cultural heritage in Ukrainian libraries.

The main topics of academic research on R. Lutsyk’s book monuments are characterized. R. Lutsyk’s professionally compiled “Catalogue of Incunabula“ (Lviv, 1974) is analyzed, the publication of which made a significant contribution to the development of incunabula studies both in Ukraine and abroad.

It has been established that R. Lutsyk’s merit was that valuable book monuments, despite ideological obstacles, were preserved, professionally processed, and made available to scholars, and the Rare Books Department became a source base and a center of monument studies for bibliologists.