Bookplates and gift inscriptions on books from the libraries of priests from the Lutsk-Zhytomyr Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church

The purpose of this article is to study the bookplates and gift inscriptions on books from the libraries of priests of the Lutsk-Zhytomyr Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church, which are kept in the Department of library collections and historical collections of the Institute of Book Studies of the V. I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine (VNLU). Methodology: the study employs paleographic and historical-chronological methods. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that, for the first time, fragments from the libraries of the clergy of the Lutsk-Zhytomyr Diocese are being introduced into scholarly circulation after being transferred to the State Public Library of Ukraine (now the V. I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine) as part of the Berdyhiv Social-Historical and Economic Museum's library collection (1926-1954) after its closure in the 1950s. Additionally, the article will, for the first time, present bookplates from the libraries of dioesan priests, such as stamps from private libraries, handwritten autographs, supralibros, and four gift inscriptions. An appendix at the end of the article provides a catalogue of books from these collections.