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.

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.