HMML Global Operations: Ukraine
Ukraine
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Region
Europe -
Country
Ukraine -
Cities
L’viv -
Repositories
Vasili Stefanyk National Library, L’viv Historical Museum, and Andrei Sheptytsky National Museum -
Languages
Ukranian, Polish, Church Slavonic, Latin, Arabic, and Aramaic -
Project Dates
2008–2022
The western Ukrainian city of L’viv is a living palimpsest, having been built in an Austrian style during Austro-Hungarian rule, incorporated into the new state of Poland after World War I, occupied during the Nazi conquest of Poland, and then placed within the Soviet Republic of Ukraine. Now an entirely Ukrainian city, traces of L’viv’s former Polish, Jewish, and Armenian communities remain. HMML has worked with major libraries of L’viv containing thousands of Church Slavonic and Latin manuscripts brought together during the Soviet period. These include the Vasili Stefanyk National Library, the L’viv Historical Museum, and a project at the Andrei Sheptytsky National Museum. More recently HMML has digitized historic manuscript collections in the western Ukrainian cities of Ostroh and Lutsk.
![St. George's Cathedral, L'viv](../../../assets/img/globalops/ukraine/1.2007-12-08_IMG_0053_OP-sRGB.jpeg)
![Miniature prayer book in Church Slavonic, L’viv Historical Museum (<a href='https://w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/view/146740'>LHMU 135</a>)](../../../assets/img/globalops/ukraine/2.LHMU_135_002 cropped.jpg)
![16th-c. Gospel book, L’viv Historical Museum (<a href='https://w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/view/146632'>LHMU 156</a>)](../../../assets/img/globalops/ukraine/3.LHMU 00156.jpg)
![View of town square area of L'viv from bell tower observation platform at city hall](../../../assets/img/globalops/ukraine/4.2007-12-09_IMG_0172 OP.jpeg)
![Andrei Sheptytsky National Museum, L’viv. Photo by <a href='https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Wereskowa'>Wereskowa</a> on <a href='https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%9B%D1%8C%D0%B2%D1%96%D0%B2_%D0%A1%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B8_20.jpg'>Wikimedia Commons</a>, (CC BY-SA 4.0)](../../../assets/img/globalops/ukraine/Andrei-Sheptytsky-National-Museum.jpg)
![16th-c. Gospel book (Євангеліє Тетр) in Slavonic, Vasili Stefanyk National Library (<a href='https://w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/view/150478'>STEF 4</a>)](../../../assets/img/globalops/ukraine/7.16th-c. Gospel book STEF_00004_012 O.jpg)
![Phil Steger, HMML Deputy Director of Manuscript Preservation (2007–2009), examining frescos in L'viv's 14th century Armenian Cathedral](../../../assets/img/globalops/ukraine/8.Armenian Cathedral, L_viv. IMG_0087 OP.jpeg)