Books Monographs and dissertations
PeriodicalsHistorical, scientific, general newspapers and journals
ManuscriptsMedieval codices and literary manuscripts
ImagesPhotographs, postcards, posters, vedutas
MusicMusical scores and audio recordings
MapsMaps and atlases
6.11.2018
Cankar's Universe
We invite you to use a new digital educational resource that offers a complete insight into Ivan Cankar’s life and work. Cankar's universe is intended to support learning process in elementary schools; it is also useful for anyone who, in addition to Cankar’s literary heritage wants to know more about his personality and circumstances affecting his life.
The teaching resource brings together Cankar’s life , photos, articles, books and material presenting his lifestyle, political activities, love and the spirit of the time in which he worked. More is seen in the video.
It is a joint project of the National and University Library, the Kašelj Primary School (Osnovna šola Kašelj), the Grammar School Vič (Gimnazija Vič) and the Department of Geography of the Faculty of Arts – the Ljubljana University.
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4.10.2018
Beautiful Missal from Slavina Digitised
A number of people wrote the manuscript in different handwritings. It has eight beautiful initials, one of which is threadlike, the rest are painted in the South German style and are probably a work of a Stuchs master.
The content consists of masses for the holidays from Christmas to feast of Corpus Christi, consecration of the church, Gloria, Mary's Mass, Credo, canticles (Praefatio), Calendar, canon of the Mass, records on Saints holidays and name days, and records on the purchase of the missal.

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Collections

Izvestja or yearly reports were school publications about annual achievements of students; that originates in the 18th century. The predecessor of Izvestja were Classifikationen and Juventus that up until the year 1849 published the names of the pupils, according to their general success and success by subjects. Juventus was published by secondary schools between the year 1770 and 1849, it ...

Historical school reports
Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian\nAcademy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU) is one of the leading research and\neducational centres in Slovenia, equivalent to prominent academic institutions\nof the Central and South Eastern Europe. It is an independent institution since\n1981, although the majority of its institutes had operated under the auspices\nof the Slovenian Academy of Sciences ...

Decades of research in publications of ZRC SAZU
Adam Friderik Reichard (1701 or 1709-1757) became the owner of the Ljubljana Mayr printing house around 1731. After his death and until the printing house was sold to Janez Jurij Heptner, his widow Ana ran the printing company. Reichard printed texts in the Slovenian, Latin, German and Italian language. One of the most important works printed in his printing house is Steinberg's description ...

Adam Friderik Reichardt's printing house in Ljubljana
What kind of people are the Slovenes and how do we live? In what ways are we similar to other Europeans and how do we differ? Is our country really covered with woods? What is the movement of petrol prices? How many tourists visit Slovenia yearly and what are the most visited attractions? What was the temperature in the last 60 years? The Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia ...

Life in Numbers
Diplomat and traveler Baron Žiga (Sigmund) von Herberstein (1486-1566) became a member of the imperial council in 1515, and in the same year started his long and successful diplomatic career. By 1553, he had made almost seventy trips abroad, mainly to Switzerland and Spain, and to Denmark, the Czech Republic and Hungary. Between 1516 and 1526, he visited the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy ...

Žiga Herberstein
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Typographia Mayriana Labacensis
 

Hren's Choirbooks
Picture books are not an unconscionable quantity of books – they form a literary continuum, communicated through language, literature and culture. Valued are those expressing the spirit of time and humanist values for the benefit of people. They are magnificent expressions of personal and collective memory, carrying a personal and cultural identity.  Slovenian Picture Book (1917-2017) due to ...

Happiness is in Books, Happiness is in Picture Books
Marija Krek was born in 1906 near Škofja Loka, in today's Republic of Slovenia; at that time, it was a part of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. With her mother, brother and sister she left for America in 1921, to join their father who had gone there a few years before; he had settled in Yankee, a small mining town in New Mexico. When Marija (Micka, Mici) came into the Promised ...

Ivan's Letters to Micka – an emigrant’s story
The Jakopič pavilion is a former gallery, in the Art Nouveau style. In 1908, Jakopič built the pavilion in the Tivoli Park; its architect was Max Fabiani. The pavilion was placed at the beginning of the Latterman promenade in the Ljubljana Tivoli Park. Until the Second World War, the pavilion was the main exhibition centre of the Slovenian contemporary painters, sculptors and photographers.The ...

Jakopič Pavilion: Exhibition Catalogues
 "Academia operosorum Labacensium", or Academy of Working citizens of Ljubljana  was founded in 1693, following the example of Italian scientific academies. The instigators of its founding were the historian and lawyer Janez Gregor Dolničar and the church provost Janez Krstnik Prešeren, that also attracted many prominent educators, nobles, citizens and ecclesiastical personalities of ...

Opera Operosorum
Aleksander Jakob Videčnik, a senior administrative officer and a retired director of the Celje City Savings Bank (Celjska mestna hranilnica), was born on 11 December 1920 in Celje.  He studied the system of cooperative societies and saving banks, especially the work of Mihael Vošnjak and the cultural history of the Upper Savinja Valley. He began writing and publishing in his early life. ...

Aleksander Videčnik
The collection comprises over two hundred traveller's journals, diaries and reports from various research, mountaineering, missionary, ethnographic and trading expeditions, diplomatic missions, grand tours, and other journeys that have been published from the 16th to the 20th century. Among them are numerous journals and diaries from the English, French, German, Spanish, and other research ...

Travel and exploration
The collection includes digital copies of older grammars, dictionaries, spelling books, orthographies, textbooks and manuals of different languages and linguistics from the collections of the National and University Library and other Slovenian libraries. Through it the development of the Slovenian language from the 16th century until the end of the First World War is reflected.

Slovenian linguistics from the 16th to the early 20th century
The Collection contains reports on completed research and target research projects, research programmes and postdoctoral projects that are collected by the National and University Library of Slovenia in cooperation with the Slovenian Research Agency since 2007. All reports are accessible without restrictions.

Slovenian Research Agency reports
Printer, bookbinder and bookseller Janž Mandelc (also Janez Mandelc, Hans Mannel or Joannes Manlius) came to Ljubljana in the spring of 1575 on the initiative of Jurij Dalmatin and Jurij Khisl. After having obtained permission of the nobility and clergy to set up a printing house, he at first printed a Johann Salicetus anti-Turks speech; in the autumn of 1575, he also printed Dalmatin’s ...

Typographia Joannis Manlii
Slovenians emigrated from their homeland during different historical periods and they left traces everywhere they had settled. They cultivated their culture, language, customs and the written word. One-fifth of the Slovenian population is living outside the borders of the Republic of Slovenia. A part of rich “production” of the Slovenian diaspora is now available in digitized form on the dLib.si ...

Slovenian diaspora publications
A Ljubljana theologian, historian and writer Janez Ludvik Shönleben (1618-1681) is the author of numerous speeches, theological works, genealogies of the Carniolan noble families and historical overviews. Some of his most important works are Aemona vindicata (Salzburg: Haan, 1674) and the historical topography Carniolia Antiqua et Nova (Ljubljana: Mayr, 1680-1681), which includes a chronicle of ...

Janez Ludvik Schönleben
Following the chronological order of their creation, the collection presents some of the influential and interesting historical works from the field of anatomy that were displayed at the National and University Library of Slovenia’s exhibition "When the Dead Teach the Living” in 2015. Scientific studies, manuals, anatomical atlases and other materials represent the development of anatomy from the ...

When the Dead teach the Living - History of Anatomy
The collection is a digital monument to Baron Jurij Vega (1754-1802), a Slovenian diverse scientist whose theories and inventions often influenced the course of the world history. Although he was born in the poor hilly region (Sv. Križ near Zagorica), he became a cosmopolitan and scientist: he excelled especially in mathematics and mathematical sciences, and was esteemed for his inventions in ...

Baron Jurij Vega
The digitized collection of the Ptuj newspapers unveils life and events in Ptuj and the nearby region during the period from 1878 - the year of publishing of the first newspaper - until 2012.  Like in other Slovenian towns, German newspapers were the first to appear in the lower Styria. In February 1878, Jakob Schön printed the first issue of the Pettauer Wochenblatt (1878). The first ...

The Ptuj Newspapers , 1878-
The collection comprises publications and documents whose copyright holders have not allowed their free access the Digital Library of Slovenia portal. In accordance with the Legal Deposit Act, such material is available only for study and research purposes on the premises of the National and University Library of Slovenia. It can be accessed on a PC in the Library Information Center. The major ...

Material with restricted access (on librarie's premises)
Josipina Turnograjska (1833 - 1854) was an extremely talented, exceptionally well educated and a broad-minded woman. She wrote more than thirty stories, and was the first to deal with the subject of Veronika Deseniška. However, only a few of her poems are preserved. She was a good piano player and a composer as well. She published her works in the Slovenska bčela monthly and the Zora newspaper. ...

Josipina: Vicinity of remoteness
Until the end of the World War II, Glasbena matica published almost 300 music scores of the Slovenian compositions for amateur singing and playing music. The cultural society, founded in 1872, fulfilled its goal to promote singing and educate masses of amateur singers" by publishing “good Slovenian compositions for church, school and home”. Most editions comprised collections of choral ...

Glasbena matica
The »Spezialkarte der Oesterreichischen-ungarnischen Monarchie« is a topographic map at the scale of 1: 75,000. Topographical maps are the basis of national cartographic information systems, necessary for making other thematic maps and cartographic representations, a tool for defence planning, orientation, etc. The Spezialkarte der Oesterreichischen-ungarnischen Monarchie at the scale of 1: ...

Spezialkarte der Oesterreichischen-ungarnischen Monarchie
The Carinthian plebiscite held on October 10 1920 determined the border between the then Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia) and Austria. Due to its result, a large part of Slovenians remained on the North side of the Karavanke mountain - in Austria. Prior to the plebiscite, both sides carried out intensive political propaganda and much of propaganda material was preserved. ...

1920 Carinthian plebiscite
Fran Vesel, was a collector of cultural and historical material, and an amateur photographer. His interest in photography took him to Vienna and Munich, where he upgraded his knowledge and became one of the best Slovenian photo amateurs. For many years, he was also a committee member of the National Gallery, and was very active in the Ljubljana Probuda art school. He was renowned for his ...

Archive of photograph chronicler Fran Vesel
In 2009, the Map and Pictoral Collection at the National and University Library of Slovenia bought 288 portrait photos of the most important Slovenian poets of the 20th century photographed by Marjan Kukec. Photos were taken between 1974 and 1981, when the Slovenska matica published France Pibernik’s books Med tradicijo in modernizmom (Between Tradition and Modernism (1978), and Med modernizmom ...

Marjan Kukec's portrait photographs
State topographic maps at the scale of 1:50.000 are important elements of national cartographic information systems. They are the basis for other maps and thematic cartographic presentations, an instrument for defence planning and for orientation purposes, etc. Topographic map of Yugoslavia at the scale of 1: 50,000 for the territory of Slovenia comprises 56 sheets printed from 1950 to 1967. ...

Topographic map of Yugoslavia for the territory of Slovenia, 1950-1967
A thousand years of words collection represents history of Slovenian language and literature and is intended for the widest circle of users. It was primarily designed as an educational tool for e-learning for primary and secondary school students and it will be further developed to become a teaching tool for university students and researchers. The most important works of Slovenian written ...

A Thousand Years of Words

Publications

Humoristično-statirično politično glasilo je urejal Zdravko Jančigaj. Glasilo je izhajalo ob priliki velike veselice Narodno delavske organizacije v Ljubljani. 

Tabor narodnega delavstva
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Humoristični list Središki sršen je izhajal na dan veselega Kurenta.

Središki sršen
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Humoristični list, ki je izhajal v času prepovedanega Totega lista od 1. mar.-5. apr. 1941.

Novi toti
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Monokelj je satirični tednik, ki je leta 1923 izhajal v Gorici. Urejal ga je K. Kodermac.

Monokelj
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Stezice so glasilo dijakov Gimnazije Novo mesto, ki izhajajo že več kot 60 let, od šolskega leta 1953/54. So edino šolsko glasilo v Sloveniji s tako dolgo neprekinjeno tradicijo izhajanja. Med pisci in uredniki zasledimo imenadijakov, ki so kasneje postali znani novinarji, uredniki, profesorji in umetniški ustvarjalci. Redne številke Stezic so poleg različnih člankov in intervjujev vedno ...

Stezice (Novo mesto)
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Pod okriljem Društva novomeških študentov je leta 1998 izšla prva številka mladinskega časopisa Park. 

Park (Novo mesto)
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Glasilo Hortikulturnega društva Brežice.

Hortikulturni bilten
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Glasilo Hortikulturnega društva Brežice.

Cvetje in zelenje
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Štirinajstdnevna kronika mesta Koper.

L'Unione
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The Cancer Registry of Republic of Slovenia (Registry) is one of the oldest population-based cancer registries in Europe. It was founded in 1950 at the Institute of Oncology in Ljubljana as a special service for collecting and processing data on cancer incidence and cancer patients’ survival. Slovenian Cancer Registry is a voting member of the International Association of Cancer Registries – IACR ...

Incidenca raka v Sloveniji
27 27
The Cancer Registry of Republic of Slovenia (Registry) is one of the oldest population-based cancer registries in Europe. It was founded in 1950 at the Institute of Oncology in Ljubljana as a special service for collecting and processing data on cancer incidence and cancer patients’ survival. Slovenian Cancer Registry is a voting member of the International Association of Cancer Registries – IACR ...

Rak v Sloveniji
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Statistično gradivo SR Slovenije je zbirka statističnih podatkov o življenju v Sloveniji v letih 1963 do 1976.

Statistično gradivo SR Slovenije
25 25
Lex localis - Journal of Local Self-Government is an international journal for the study of the politics, administration, and management of local affairs published four times a year (in January, April, July, and October) by Institute for Local Self-Government and Public Procurement Maribor (Slovenia).

Lex localis
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Realization, property and rights 2019 Narodna in univerzitetna knjižnica, Turjaška 1, 1000 Ljubljana