Word: slovak
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...books received at Gore Hall during the year, nearly 5,000 came as gifts, one of which consisted of a collection of Slovak literature made by Professor Wiener and presented to the library by Professor A. C. Coolidge. This collection, which includes the library of Lombardini of Sollein, and many other Slovak publications procured in Southern Europe, is probably larger and more complete than any other of its kind in existence, except that owned by L. Rizner, a prominent Slovak bibliographer...
...Library has recently received through Mr. L. Wiener the second largest collection of books in the Slovak language in the world. Slovak is a dialect of Bohemian spoken by nearly two million and a half of the inhabitants of Northern Hungary. During the nineteenth century it has developed a literature of its own. Mr. Wiener spent the summer in the Slovak country, and then succeeded in buying all the books of value in that literature...
...collection at present contains about a thousand volumes, and from these Mr. Wiener expects to secure material for a history of the Slovak language. The money for the collection was given by Assistant Professor Coolidge and the Library...