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The Reformati Monastery in Kryłów near Hrubieszów was founded in the 1750s. After the dissolution of the monastery in 1808 by the Austrian authorities the monastery church was sold and dismantled and its furnishings were dispersed. The Reformati Monastery Church of St. Anthony in Przemyśl houses a valuable rococo radial monstrance made around the mid-18th century, which can be regarded as an eminent example of Polish goldsmithing. Its value is enhanced by full figures of God the Father and Apocalyptic Lamb as well as symbols of Old Testament sacrifices. The foot of the monstrance bears the inscription CONV. KRYLOVIENSIS PP. REFORM, unequivocally pointing to the place for which it was made. This may be the monstrance mentioned in the chronicle of the Kryłów monastery, which speaks of a large and beautiful monstrance made in 1760 for the local monastery church after a drawing by Fr. Stanisław Dominik Kleczewski (1714–1776). Kleczewski served as definitor, custodian and provincial of his order; he also represented the Polish Province at general chapters in Rome. In addition, he was an amateur draughtsman. The Reformati Monastery Church of St. Casimir in Cracow boasts a rococo chalice dating to the late 18th century. The inscription on the foot indicates the place for which the chalice was made: “Conventus Krylovi[ensis]”; the inscription is accompanied by letters PP RE TŁ RM. The chalice and the monstrance mentioned in the monastery chronicle may have been a set. The topic of goldsmithing of high artistic value and precise workmanship from Reformati churches in the eastern part of Poland requires further studies (other such objects include a rococo monstrance from 1770–1780 from the Reformati Monastery in Rawa Ruska, currently kept in the monastery in Biecz, and a classicist radial monstrance of unknown provenance made at the turn of the 19th century kept in the monastery of the Przemyśl Reformati). It is all the more interesting given the fact that in this religious order, particularly valuing poverty, monstrances for liturgical purposes were usually made of wood, with only the lunette holding the host being made of silver.
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The article presents 40 early printed books, acquired from different monasteries, which currently belong to the collection of the Franciscan Provincial Library in Gniezno. Initially, they were handed over from dissolved monasteries to – among other institutions – the Archdiocesan Archive Library and the Seminary Library in Gniezno, where they remained between 1836 and 1975. In 1975, the then Gniezno-Warszawa metropolitan archbishop, cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, returned to the Gniezno Franciscans the early printed books which they had been in possession of before the 1831 suppression. However, seven manuscripts and 63 incunabula remained in the libraries of the Gniezno Archdiocese. The manuscripts have been recorded in the catalogues of the seminary library prepared by Tadeusz Trzciński, Arkadiusz Marian Lisiecki, and Jadwiga Rył. The incunabula from the seminary library of the cathedral library in Gniezno are present in the catalogue created by Fr Leon Formanowicz before World War II, and supplemented in the 1960’s by Fr Julian Wojtkowski. Further information on the incunabula of the Franciscan monastery library in Gniezno can be found in a catalogue prepared by Jadwiga Rył. By way of compensation for these manuscripts and incunabula, the Gniezno monastery received 58 early printed books of different provenance from the duplicates owned by the Archdiocesan Archive Library and the Seminary Library. Among them there were items from dissolved Greater Poland monasteries as well as from Polish and private foreign book collections. Moreover, in 2008–2013, the author – librarian at the Franciscan Provincial Library in Gniezno – incorporated 17 early printed books, a bibliophile inheritance from the deceased fellow brothers, and books personally acquired at fairs from private collectors, into the library’s special collection section. Bibliographic descriptions presented in the catalogue of early printed books have been compared with foreign central catalogues available online. Descriptions of individual features of the items have been prepared in compliance with the Polish version of the international standard of early printed books description ISBD(A).
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