Księga ksiąg, czyli ludzkie losy Biblii Gutenberga

• Authors: Walkusz Jan

Title variants

EN

THE BOOK OF BOOKS ON THE ROUTES OF HUMANS: A HISTORY OF THE GUTENBERG BIBLE OF PELPLIN

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Acquired by the bishop of Chełmno, Mikołaj Chrapicki (who died in 1514), the copy of Gutenberg Bible was handed over by the hierarch to the library of the Franciscans-Bernardines in episcopal city of Lubawa. After the dissolution in year 1821 the masterpiece of the printer from Mainz became the property of the Library of Divinity School in Pelplin, where – as the only copy in Poland – at the end of the 19th century it was adequately exhibited. In the inter-war period – although the selling of the Bible was considered – its ideological popularizer and protector was, among others, the bishop of Chełmno, Stanisław Wojciech Okoniewski, but above all, the priest dr Antonie Liedtke, the director of the library in Pelplin. It was he who dedicated several papers to the “Polish” copy of Gutenberg Bible and just before the war – risking his life – he rescued the Bible from German robbery. e route of its evacuation led from Pelplin, through Warsaw (the treasury of the National Economy Bank), Romania, France, Great Britain to Canada, where it was deposited in the branch of the Bank of Montreal in Ottawa. Although there were some problems with getting it back after the war, the Gutenberg Bible returned to Pelplin and until this day it is a real pearl of the collections of seminar library.

Keywords

PL

Biblia Gutenberga; diecezja chełmińska; ks. Antoni Liedtke; bp Stanisław Wojciech Okoniewski; II wojna światowa; biblioteki kościelne

EN

Gutenberg Bible; Chelmno diocese; Father Antoni Liedtke; Bishop Stanislaw Wojciech Okoniewski; World War II; church library

• Publisher: Instytut Teologiczno-Pastoralny im. św. bpa Józefa Sebastiana Pelczara
• Journal: Resovia Sacra : Studia Teologiczno-Filozoficzne Diecezji Rzeszowskiej
• Year: 2016
• Issue: 23
• Pages: 385-394

Contributors

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Walkusz Jan