In Preparation for Digitizing
The digital collection will be complemented by new regional publications in
electronic form. In 2011, it is planned to digitize the following library
materials:
Rules of the Society of St. Cyril and Methodius
for Istria
printed by I. Seraschin in
Pula, 1894
The particular significance of
this booklet is that it is among the first publications printed in the Croatian
language in Istria. It was printed in Pula in 1894 at the printing press owned
by the Seraschin family, the first printing house in Istria which, apart from
books in Italian, also printed books in Croatian. The booklet contains the
rules of the Society of St. Cyril and Methodius for Istria, an association for
the development of a Croatian and Slovene school system in Istria, founded in
1893, when the K and K (
Kaiser und Koenig,
i.e. Imperial and Royal) Regency approved its rules. The activities of the
Society of St. Cyril and Methodius for Istria represented an expression of the
Croatian national revival in Istria and its educational aspirations, and
focused on opening Croatian schools in the region.
Rules of the Pula Reading Room Society
printed by I. Seraschin in Pula, 1894
The first Croatian society in Pula was the Reading
Room, established in 1869, the aim of which was organized reading and the spreading
of the written word in Croatian among members of the Croatian ethnic community
in Pula. The first
Rules of the Pula Reading Room in Croatian and German were
published in Pula in 1870. The first Reading Room ceased its activities in the 1880s
and was restarted when Dr Matko Laginja was elected president of the Society.
The new
Rules of the Pula Reading Room
Society were printed in the printing house owned by the Seraschin family in
Pula in 1894. The book contains the
ex
libris of Josip Bratulić, a member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and
Arts.
Notizie storiche di Pola
[testi di Pietro Kandler … [et al.]. [Pola] : Municipio, 1876. (Parenzo : Tipografia di Gaetano Coana).
This book is one of the
earliest printed editions in Istria representing a documented history of Pula
and the surrounding area until the mid-19
th century. The book
contains rich archival material on the history of Pula and surrounding sites
(Fažana, Medulin, Premantura, etc.) and was compiled by prominent archaeologist
and historian Pietro Kandler (Trieste, 1804-1872). Throughout his life, Kandler
published numerous short papers on Istria in epistolary form in weekly and
daily newspapers in Trieste. These contain an abundance of historical,
archaeological and epigraphic data. He also left rich archival material (today
stored at the National Archives in Trieste and elsewhere), some of which was
posthumously published in the monograph
Notizie
storiche di Pola (1876). Some excerpts from the book
Codice Diplomatico Istriano (CDI, Istrian Diplomatic Code, a collection
of documents related to the region of Istria and Trieste in the period between
50 AD and 1526, collected and prepared for printing by Kandler) were also
published in the monograph. The book was printed at Gaetano Coana's press in
Poreč.
The postcard collection
The postcard collection
currently contains 435 items, and we continually seek to supplement it by
procuring new items. We intend to gradually digitize the whole postcard collection
by thematic unit.
Thematic units in preparation:
A) postcards created from photographs
taken by professional photographers (Alois Beer, R. Marincovich, the ‘Sintich
& Co’ and ‘Flora’ photographic studios);
B) printers and publishers (F.W. Schrinner, M. Clapis, M. Fischer, A. i G. Rude)
C) time periods (19th century, between the wars, etc.)
