BelNIIDAD released new publications

The book presents documents and materials on the history of archives and archival science in Belarus, beginning from the creation of the first historical archives — the Central Archives of Early Records in Vitebsk — until the system of archival bodies and institutions had been transferred to the government of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic. The historical sources, most part of which have been published for the first time, cover approximately one hundred years of the events extremely important for the destiny of Belarusian archives and mark a complicated but dynamic transference from the departmental autonomy and the lack of system to the modern foundations of the archive business.

The book is intended for historians, archivists, students of the humanities, local specialists and everyone interested in the history and culture of Belarus.

The book examines issues of the Latin documentary writing from Antiquity to Modern Times with focus on graphics of medieval written monuments, including those relating to the history of Belarus and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

ISBN 978-985-6733-96-6.

The book examines the main principles, methods and techniques of describing sphragistic materials of 15th to 18th centuries held in Belarusian archives. Describes the notion of stamp, its main elements, types of stamps in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, methods of their identification and fixation. The book draws on the domestic practices of sphragistic description as well as the newest achievements in the international sigillography.

The edition is intended for archivists, historical editors, museum researchers, historians, specialists in heraldry and sphragistics, collectors.