All collections - Books - Miroslav Premru's (1871-1944) special library - selection

Researcher, grade school and high school he studied in his birthplace, and law in Vienna and Graz. In Slovenia, he worked as a lawyer until 1916. when he went to Rome, where he remained until 1924. After a stay in Trieste returned to Gorizia. At the end of his life was blinded and deaf. While in Rome, he studied the material from the Vatican archives relating to the Yugoslav countries. One part of his library purchased in 1926. , in Rome, our Foreign Ministry and gave the University Library in Belgrade. The second part of the library Premru left the National Museum in Ljubljana. The library has a 1345 inventory numbers from about 3000 volumes. Its scientific value is huge. It contains the most extensive literature on the history of the Renaissance, the Reformation, the rich material for the study of past peoples in Yugoslavia. These are, for the most part, very old and rare works from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, mostly in Latin and Italian. Includes two incunabula printed in Venice in 1483rd year. There we will find the parts that relate to our history, for example. Chronic turcica work published in Frankfurt 1578th, almost all of which is part of John Rajic used creating their own history ... Posted 1794th year Cedrenus Georgius and his Annals published in Basel 1556th, Nikeforos Gregoras's History of Constantinople from 1569., Nicetas Acominatus a part of the Greek emperors from 1569. Ioannes Dubravius's History of the 1575th, Historiae Byzantinae Scriptores tres Greco-Latins from 1615. etc.. In 1966. Library is published "Catalogue of special libraries Miroslav Premru" drafted by Radmila Nikolic, Ljiljana Milačić. Complete Library is located in the Department of rarities. The library is labeled PB2.