Inventories, catalogues and directories in the collection of manuscripts of the National Museum in Cracow
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.33077/uw.25448730.zbkh.2003.473Keywords:
history of private collections, history of monastic libraries, history of special libraries, sources to history of libraries, library inventories, catalogues, directories, the National Museum in Cracow, Poland, 18th-20th centuries.Abstract
The initial part of the article describes in brief the collection of approximately 2300 manuscripts from the National Museum in Cracow. However, the article’s goal is to put attention of the experts in the history of the book and book collections since the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century to several dozen of valuable archival sources from this range, from the same collection. The largest group of them includes inventories and catalogues from the 18th-19th centuries, from the Chodkiewicz family libraries in Młynów, Czarnobyl, Konojad, Warszawa and Turzec. The others are inventories and catalogues of (among others) aristocratic and noble libraries, including those of Jan Fryderyk Sapieha, Tekla Róża Wiśniowiecka, the Branicki family in Białymstok, Józef Rzewuski, Aleksander Chodkiewicz, Jan Ansgary Czapski, Gustaw Olizar, Henryk Siemiradzki; monastery libraries of the Bernardine nouns in Słonim and Brześć Litewski, the Order of St Paul at Jasna Góra and the Marian Fathers in Puszcza Korabiewska; the Numismatic Society in Cracow, and unknown Warsaw theatre. In the other part the author presents chronologically ordered list of 41 inventories, catalogues and directories of books from the collection of manuscripts of the National Museum.
