Captured by the idea of arranging a display of books, in 1848 Nicholas I ordered the Imperial Public Library to give up to the Hermitage "manuscripts containing miniatures and illustrations". On 12 December 1851, Modest Korff, the director of the library, handed over to the Hermitage 175 parchment manuscripts with miniatures, and in January 1852 he received 350 Russian manuscripts or "all the Russian manuscripts present in the Hermitage Library. Among them were 35 manuscripts, including the famous Anthology of 1076, Diplomatic Notes from the Time of Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich and the Roman Emperor Maximilian, autograph manuscripts by the Russian historians Tatishchev and Shcherbatov, hand-written dictionaries from the 18th century and Catherine II's dramas written in her own hand.The book display existed in the Hermitage until 1862 when the 175 manuscripts with miniatures were returned once more to the Imperial Public Library.