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REVIEWSIsTORiiA KNiGi ι IZDATEL'SKOGO DELÀ: SBORNIK NAUCHNYKH TRU-DOV. [Edited by 5. P. Luppov et al.] Leningrad: Izdatel'skiiotdel Biblioteki Akademii nauk SSSR, 1977. 158 pp. 1,000copies. 63 kopecks.This volume is the fifth in a series begun by the Library of the Academy ofSciences in 1965. The first three were entitled Sbornik statei і materialovBiblioteki Akademii nauk po knigovedeniiu (1965-1973); the fourth volumeappeared in a different format under the title Rukopisnye i redkie pechatnyeknigi vfondakh Biblioteki AN SSSR: Sbornik nauchnykh trudov (1976). Sinceits appearance in 1977, however, four other volumes have appeared in thesame series: Russkie biblioteki i chastnye knizhnye sobraniia XVI-XIX vekov:Sbornik nauchnykh trudov (1979); Knigopechatanie і knizhnye sobraniia νRossii do serediny XIX veka: Sbornik nauchnykh trudov (1979); Knizhnoedelo ν Rossii ν XVI-XIX vekakh: Sbornik nauchnykh trudov (1980); Knigotorgovoeі bibliotechnoe delo ν Rossii ν XVII — pervoi polovine XIX v. ; Sborniknauchnykh trudov (1981). Nonetheless, the six essays contained in Istoriiaknigi і izdatel'skogo delà and covering the sixteenth through nineteenthcentury claim our special interest because of their particular relevance toUkrainian studies.The first essay, by B. V. Sapunov of the Hermitage, attempts to study theissue of Ukrainian cultural influences on seventeenth-century Muscovy. Forhis study Sapunov searched 93 inventories of books (opisi), which listed a totalof 11,261 volumes. His figures may be summarized as follows: the 66 churchopisi contained a total of 1,464 volumes, of which 14 were Ukrainian and 47were non-Russian; the ten monastic inventories yielded 6,387 volumes, ofwhich 210 were Ukrainian and 860 non-Russian; the sixteen opisi of privatecollections registered 2,113 volumes, of which 71 were Ukrainian and 540non-Russian. Sapunov finds that the library of Patriarch Nikon contained atotal of 1,297 volumes, of which 249 volumes were Ukrainian and 837 offoreign provenance. Unfortunately, Sapunov does not discuss the specificlanguage and provenance of the foreign titles.Conservatively estimated, then, the Ukrainian volumes totaled 544 orone-quarter, of the non-Muscovite imprints (2,284) surveyed. Of this number,