Only a small portion of the work written by Fedor Karpov, diplomat and publicist who worked under Grand Prince Vasili III, has been preserved. A detailed assessment his literary activity is additionally complicated fact that Karpov’s writings were mainly extracted from so-called formulaire collection. There, researcher to rely primarily on context in order get an idea aesthetic, ideological pol...

The oldest library in Istria (Croatia) is located in the Franciscan Monastery of Pazin, with a rich fund of worthy old books. Our attention was attracted by the book "Chirurgie" written by the German physician, surgeon and anatomist Lorenz Heister in the first half of the 18th century. This worthy book is relatively scanty known in Croatian history of surgery. By studying the contents of the bo...