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The University Library in Wrocław has a collection of manuscripts documenting some of the events following the promulgation of the secularisation edict by the King of Prussia, Frederick William III, on 30 October 1810, under which most catholic church institutions in Silesia, especially numerous monasteries, were dissolved. The five bound volumes of files, known as the Büsching Papers, contain: – correspondence: original letters or copies (mainly between commissioner J. G. G. Büsching, Central Secularisation Commission and special commissioners, mostly concerning organisational and financial matters); – inventories of former monastery archives, libraries and art collections; – Büsching’s protocols and notes concerning organisational and financial matters as well as movable items found in monasteries, which were of some value to science, museums, libraries or archives (e.g. numismatic objects, archaeological objects). Despite the fact that the Büsching Papers are an archive source known to scholars studying Silesian history and art, Büsching’s illegible writing has hindered access to the contents of the documents. The present inventory of the Büsching Papers is an attempt to shed some light on the documents; its aim is to provide a preliminary overview of the contents of the five German-language volumes, to simplify the search for specific documents and to encourage scholars to carry out an in-depth analysis of the manu - scripts in their research work.
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The present study is to provide a concise analysis of and present (in extenso) fragments of the so-called "Büsching Papers" dealing with the Norbertine Monastery in Wrocław. They include Büsching’s First report on the seizure of objects kept in the Monastery of St. Vincent in Wrocław (8 January 1811), Inventory of art collections and manuscripts as well as selected letters associated with these actions. The sources contain information not only about the contents and organisation of the library and the archives, but also about their location and furnishings. In addition, they contain details of the seizure of these resources. The inventory of art collections includes paintings and reliefs as well as richly illustrated books devoted to art and, in particular, the history and theory of architecture. Like in the report, there are attempts here to establish the authors of the most outstanding paintings (e.g. Salvatore Rosa, Michael Leopold Willmann).
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