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214 Proceedings of the International Congress on Historiography and Source Studies of Asia and Africa.Vol. I. 2020 Milena N. Osmanova (IHAE DFRC RAS, Makhachkala, Russia) Arabographic Old Printed Books in the Fund of Oriental Manuscripts of the Daghestan Federal Research Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences: Recent Acquisitions Summary : Identification and fixation, as well as further study and cataloguing of the historical heritage of book culture, including manuscripts and old printed books and other materials, are one of the most important fields of the academic work of Daghestani orientalists. It includes the scholarly description of old printed books, which have recently been acquired by the Oriental Manuscripts Fund of the Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Daghestan Federal Research Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences. The poor condition of some copies, resulting from inadequate storage and other negative factors, considerably complicates their study. The description of old printed books has been made according to the established system that reflects their main characteristics. As regards to their subjects, they are typical of most Daghestani book collections, where grammar, dogmatics, Muslim law, Sufism, logic, and rhetoric prevail. The geography of the book publication is quite broad: Egypt, Turkey, Iran, as well as the East of the Russian Empire. The books are published inArabic, Persian, Turkish (Old Ottoman), Tatar,Azerbaijani, and Daghestani languages. New acquisitions include widely known works by the Middle East scholars, as well as treatises and poetic works by Daghestani authors. It is worthmentioning a large number of convolutes, which was a traditional method of combining works selected by their subject in the late 19th—early 20th centuries. The convolutes were made by printing houses, book sellers, as well as readers themselves. Some books were used as textbooks, as evidenced by notes in themargins and bookmarks with extracts from texts. The simplification of book bindings to make them cheaper can also be traced; cardboard and homemade paper bindings became widespread. Long- term cooperation of Daghestani booksellers with a number of Egyptian, Turkish and East Russian printing houses is confirmed by a large number of printed editions of these publishing houses, dating back to different years of the late 19th—early 20th centuries. The information obtained during the current research would allowmore objective assessment of the outlook of Daghestani readers at the beginning of the 20th century, as well as will help tracing academic and cultural ties of educated people of the Muslim world during this period. Keywords: archaeographic work; book culture; private and mosque collections; old printed books; lithography; Middle East countries.