Theses and other scientific papers that were written at the Jesuit Vilnius University (1579–1773) and intended for a public dispute or for gaining scientific degree.

The Church of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania’s Uniates or Catholics of the Greek Rite was established in 1596 and abolished in 1839.

Pub­li­ca­tions digi­tised and opened to the pub­lic dur­ing the in­ter­na­tional pro­ject EODOPEN (eBooks-On-De­mand-Net­work Open­ing Pub­li­ca­tions for Eu­ro­pean Ne­ti­zens).

The court books of the Grand Duchy of Lithua­nia is one of the most in­ter­est­ing his­tor­i­cal col­lec­tions of Vil­nius Uni­ver­sity Li­brary. It con­sists of al­most six hun­dred man­u­script deed books and book frag­ments dated be­tween 1540 and 1845. It rep­re­sents wide po­lit­i­cal, ju­ridi­cal, so­cial, and eco­nomic panorama of Lithuan­ian his­tory, the house­hold of the past as well as pub­lic and in­di­vid­ual psy­chol­ogy.

The per­sonal li­brary of Joachim Lelewel (1786–1861), be­queathed in his last will to the Uni­ver­si­ty’s li­brary. It con­tains many man­u­script doc­u­ments hand­writ­ten by Lelewel him­self, as well as books cov­er­ing var­i­ous top­ics.

Vil­nius Uni­ver­sity Li­brary, which pro­tects sev­eral unique mon­u­ments of Lithuan­ian lit­er­a­ture, joined the Mem­ory of the World pro­gramme in 2006 and pro­vided sev­eral dozen ob­jects of ut­most im­por­tance that were at­trib­uted re­gional or na­tional sig­nif­i­cance.

Man­u­scripts and printed doc­u­ments that show the de­vel­op­ment of Lithuan­ian writ­ing from the ear­li­est books in Lithuan­ian – Catechisms by Mar­ty­nas Mažvy­das and Mikalo­jus Daukša – to the Lithuan­ian clas­sics of the 20th cen­tury.

Sig­nif­i­cant his­tor­i­cal doc­u­ments of Vil­nius Uni­ver­sity that at­test to the Uni­ver­si­ty’s found­ing, the de­vel­op­ment of teach­ing and study­ing processes, pe­cu­liar­i­ties of pro­fes­sor and stu­dent aca­d­e­mic and daily life, and the in­flu­ence their works had to the cul­ture and sci­ence of the state.

Vil­nius Uni­ver­sity Li­brary’s car­tog­ra­phy col­lec­tion is not only the rich­est in Lithua­nia, but also one of the most unique in en­tire East­ern Eu­rope. Col­lec­tion is com­posed of at­lases, his­tor­i­cal maps, man­u­script plot plans and blue­prints.

Var­i­ous man­u­script doc­u­ments re­veal the his­tor­i­cal be­gin­nings of well-known dukes and no­bles of Grand Duchy of Lithua­nia and wit­ness the Lithuan­ian no­bil­ity be­come part of Eu­ro­pean high so­ci­ety.