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The article discuses 304 private press collections in Eastern Galicia at the time of partitions. These were mainly owned by gentry, intelligentsia and clergy. There is also evidence of press readership among peasants.
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The article describes one of the oldest Polish 17th century sale catalogues of a private library. The catalogue presents an opportunity to get insight into composition and editorial issues of this type of publications. Not only does it show the beginnings of book auctions in Poland, but also allows to look into an interesting collection of books gathered by the Niclassius family of Gdansk. Part of the collection are over 220 Polish books which equals approx. 15% of the collection. This considerable number was unique in Gdansk libraries and may be explained by the fact that the clergymen who owned the library served at St. Peter and Paul's church which was a strong Polish center at the time.
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The Seminar Library in Wloclawek and other local church and lay libraries still hold remains of rich private book collections once owned by members of the cathedral chapter. To date 41 owners of the 17th century manuscripts and old prints have been identified. The items in the collection are mostly liturgical books, theological, philosophical, historical and legal works as well as sermons. The canon men were all well-educated and had a good command of foreign languages such as Latin and Italian. A considerable number of Italian prints was probably brought to Wloclawek by the canons after they had completed their education at Italian universities like Padua or Rome. The bookplates and hand-written notes reflect canons' collector passion. The books were usually parchment bound, sometimes also cow skin or pigskin bound and embossed with gold. As no margin notes are present, it can only be assumed that the books were used in canons' regular pastoral, judicial and administrative work.
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The Seminar Library in Wloclawek is a great source to research historical private book collections. Its number of books was enlarged by the local Cathedral Library in 1950. There were sometimes small parts of private libraries of prelates and canon men in this collection. Only 31 owners were identified from 18th century. Cathedral chapter was an institution, which gathered well-educated members. They learned in foreign and Polish universities. They used their private collections during studies and working as preachers and judges in the church and civil institutions. Prelates and canon men collected sermons, theological works, writings of church historians, legal works but also dictionaries and grammar books. Private libraries they amassed met their needs and helped in their pastoral, judicial and administrative work.
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The article describes life and activity of Antoni Ojrzynski (1871–1967), pharmacist, mountaineer and the keen bibliophile who gathered literature portraying possessions of the Polish society in the cognition and popularizing the Tatras and Podhale over the centuries. Collector displayed his fond of book already in school years, then he started independently broadening his knowledge with a view to filling gaps in the education. Beginning by Ojrzynski concentrating his own library was a result of the self-education. In the idea collection was supposed to have regional character, devoted to the Tatras and the Carpatian. A presence of many outstanding work concerning Tatra issues from 18th century, and ending on thirties 20th century in is characteristic for Ojrzynski collection. The outbreak of the World War II led for partial destroying the library. In order to protect it before more distant devastation in 1947 Ojrzynski handed over survive sets as the deposit to the library of the Polish Tatra Society in Cracow (nowadays known as The Central Mountain Library of Polish Tourist Country-Lovers' Society - Centralna Biblioteka Gorska PTTK). This library constitutes unusually valuable and endless source up till today to the research on history and the development of Podhale and the Tatras.
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