microform format after return of the originals to Lithuania in 1997. Manucscripts Our Department Manuscripts and Early Printed Books holds the Croatian Glagolitic " Berlin Missal " (Missale Romanum, call [...] number: Ms. Ham. 444 ) from the year 1402 and the probably most valuable collection of old Serbian manuscripts in Germany, namely the Collection Wuk, named after the Serbian enlightener and language reformer [...] kept. Further Holdings A lot of further Eastern European holdings like early printed books and manuscripts, maps, official publications, newspapers and children’s and young people’s books are available

as legal deposit copies from publishers of the Polish minority in Prussia. In 1856, 49 Serbian manuscripts, the Vuk collection, were acquired. In 1874 Vatroslav Jagić was appointed to the newly founded

Jakubica from 1548 is one of the oldest monuments of the Sorbian language. Due to its orientation, the manuscript is also an important source for the entire West Slavic historical dialectology. St. Petersburg