Description

• Title:
  Early printed books from monastic libraries in Greater Poland after the dissolution of monasteries in the collection of the University Library in Warsaw
• Creator:
  Czapnik, Marianna
• Description:
  The University Library in Warsaw houses 3,091 volumes in its collection that originally belonged to a number of monastic libraries located in Greater Poland. This article traces and identifies the successive stages in which individual sections of these collections come into possession of the Library in the early years of the nineteenth century. The first batch of books came from the library of the Warsaw Lyceum (Polish: Liceum Warszawskie) (1806) and the so-called the Library of the Appellate Court (1810). An analysis of the proprietary marks and records (book-plates, stamps, marks of ownership and inventory numbers) pasted into the surviving copies allows us to establish that the latter libraries held volumes that had previously belonged to Cistercian monasteries in Bledzew, Obra, Paradyż and Wągrowiec, and to the Benedictines from Lubiń and the monks of the Trinitarian Order in Krotoszyn. The Dissolution Act of 1819 was followed by an influx of large sections of the book collections from the libraries of the Jesuit and Canons Regular of the Lateran from Kalisz, the Cistercians from Ląd, the Camaldolese monks from Bieniszewo and the Pauline monasteries at Brdów and Wielgomłyny. Over time, the Warsaw library also accommodated volumes from the libraries of the Jesuits and the Discalded Carmelites in Poznań. The books from the latter two batches were incorporated to the Library’s book collection either alongside early books from other book collections, or in some other way yet to be researched, following a procedure that has not yet been clearly established. The article also includes an overview of the bookplates and other proprietary marks that make identification of the copies from the above mentioned libraries possible, i.e. library stamps, monastic inscriptions, labels with library shelf numbers and characteristic markings placed on book spines.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2020 Marianna Czapnik;
  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
• Date:
  2020.12.30
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  Polish
• Source:
  Biblioteka; No. 24 (33) (2020); 9-45;
  Biblioteka; Nr 24 (33) (2020); 9-45;
  2391-5838;
  1506-3615
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/b/article/view/28476/25655
• Subject:
  Biblioteka Uniwersytecka w Warszawie;
  wielkopolskie biblioteki klasztorne;
  historia bibliotek klasztornych;
  kasaty;
  badania proweniencyjne;
  University Library in Warsaw;
  monastic libraries in the Wielkopolska region;
  history of monastic libraries;
  dissolution of religious orders;
  provenance studies
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/b/article/view/28476
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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• Type:
  text