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THE SOURCES OF MODERN BOOK HISTORIOGRAPHY: KAZIMIERZ PIEKARSKI AND HIS BOOK 'THE BOOK IN THE 15TH AND 16TH CENTURY POLAND' (KSIAZKA W POLSCE XV I XVI WIEKU) (Polish title - below)

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Migon K.

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2009

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vol. 53

23-37

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(Title in Polish - 'U zródel wspólczesnej historiografii ksiazki: Kazimierz Piekarski i jego 'Ksiazka w Polsce XV i XVI wieku'). Book history as a research specialty began to develop in Europe at least as early as the 17th century, but it was not until the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries that it gradually acquired, and only in some countries, the status of a relatively autonomous discipline. The problems it tackled, the concepts and methods it used came mainly from the history of printing, bibliography and history of literature. An important role in the development of book historiography in Poland was played by Kazimierz Piekarski with his work on bibliography, cataloguing and book studies, and, especially, his 1930 programme publication 'Books in 15th and 16th century Poland' (published in 1932). Piekarski deserves the credit for establishing a precise scope of printed book studies and for drawing attention to the printer and his production as a research subject specific to book history. In addition, a full study of early printed books should include the issue of circulation (intermediaries) and consumption of books. In many cases Kazimierz Piekarski's proposals were ahead of foreign concepts and programmes of research into the history of books, research that today is dominated - globally - by two schools: French and Anglo-American. Piekarski's work, virtually unknown outside Poland, should be given its deservedly important place in international historiography.

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ON KAZIMIERZ PIEKARSKI - MANY YEARS LATER (O Kazimierzu Piekarskim - po latach)

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Buchwald-Pelcowa P.

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2009

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vol. 53

5-21

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2009 marks the 65th anniversary of the death of Kazimierz Piekarski (1893-1944), a distinguished Polish librarian, bibliographer, book historian and bibliologist, as well as the 90th anniversary of the publication of the first and the 70th anniversary of the publication of the last book by Piekarski (published during his lifetime). The present article is devoted to Piekarski's career - as a librarian in the Library of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (Polska Akademia Umiejetnosci - PAU), and the Jagiellonian Library in Kraków, the Ossolineum in Lviv and the National Library in Warsaw. The author recounts various stages of Piekarski's academic career, his published bibliological writings and his place in Polish science after World War II, a place the significance of which can be seen in the references in academic literature, in the re-issues of his publications and, first of all, in the continuation of the work he started.

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KAZIMIERZ PIEKARSKI'S LETTERS TO LUDWIK BERNACKI FROM 1919-1939. Edited and introduced by Maciej Matwijow (Listy Kazimierza Piekarskiego do Ludwika Bernackiego z lat 1919-1939).

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Matwijow M.

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2009

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vol. 53

39-61

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Kazimierz Piekarski's letters to Ludwki Bernacki (most letters from Bernacki have not survived) testify to many years of contacts and collaboration between these two historians of Polish books. The most important for Piekarski's future career were the contacts between 1919 and 1921 when, in accordance with Bernacki's proposal, he took on the recording of 15th-16th century printed books from the Library of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences in Kraków and was employed by the Ossolineum Library in Lviv, headed by Bernacki, to catalogue its collection of early printed books. After Piekarski left the Ossolineum in 1921 and Bernacki became interested in other fields, contacts between them were mainly over Piekarski's use of the Ossolineum collections in his research. At the same time Piekarski helped Bernacki to solve various factual issues. The last stage in their collaboration (1938-1939) was associated with Piekarski's plans (eventually abandoned) to have the Ossolineum publish a monograph devoted to Polish printing houses in the 16th century. Piekarski's letters from that period bring us most details from his private life - this was a time when health problems made it extremely difficult for him to continue his work.

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KAZIMIERZ PIEKARSKI'S BIG AND SMALL CAUSES: AS READ IN LETTERS TO ALEKSANDER BIRKENMAJER (Wielkie i male sprawy Kazimierza Piekarskiego wyczytane z listów do Aleksandra Birkenmajera)

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Mydel M.

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2009

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vol. 53

63-80

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Professor Aleksander Birkenmajer's rich legacy, kept in the Manuscript Department of the Jagiellonian Library, includes among his correspondence writings by Kazimierz Piekarski. This collection comprises twenty letters, seven postcards, one note, a visiting card, a postal order and an invitation to a celebration in memory of the late Kazimierz Piekarski. The letters written between 1921-1942 are an interesting testimony to the over twenty-year-long collaboration between the two scholars broken by Piekarski's premature death. The subjects of the letters included problems with Piekarski's methods, his research, his publishing, bibliophilic and organisational work among Polish librarians in the inter-war period, as well as social and personal affairs of the author of the letters. What should also be noted is the language of these letters - Kazimierz Piekarski was famous for his brilliant wit, self-mockery and critical but very humane approach to human weaknesses. Despite its fragmentary nature Kazimierz Piekarski's legacy deserves to be brought back from obscurity because of the figure of its author - an eminent scholar, exceptional librarian and fascinating human being.

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THE SOURCES OF MODERN BOOK HISTORIOGRAPHY: KAZIMIERZ PIEKARSKI AND HIS BOOK 'THE BOOK IN THE 15TH AND 16TH CENTURY POLAND' (KSIAZKA W POLSCE XV I XVI WIEKU) (Polish title - below)

ON KAZIMIERZ PIEKARSKI - MANY YEARS LATER (O Kazimierzu Piekarskim - po latach)

KAZIMIERZ PIEKARSKI'S LETTERS TO LUDWIK BERNACKI FROM 1919-1939. Edited and introduced by Maciej Matwijow (Listy Kazimierza Piekarskiego do Ludwika Bernackiego z lat 1919-1939).

KAZIMIERZ PIEKARSKI'S BIG AND SMALL CAUSES: AS READ IN LETTERS TO ALEKSANDER BIRKENMAJER (Wielkie i male sprawy Kazimierza Piekarskiego wyczytane z listów do Aleksandra Birkenmajera)