Lotyniškų knygų rinkiniai institucinėse LDK bibliotekose XVI-XVII a

Abstract

The article is about the catholic, protestant communities' and educational institutions' libraries, which are generally called institutional libraries. In the 16lh-17thcenturies the complementing of the libraries of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was determined by two factors - the expedient activity and possibility to acquire books. The literature accumulated in those libraries was diverse in subjects. Untill the middle of 17th century the Latin publications prevailed. But the libraries comprised a relativelly small part of Latin books published in the Grand Dutchy, they mostly consisted of foreign publications. The reasons of such content of the libraries are described as follows.