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Jagiellonian Library
Summary
Jagiellonian Library (Biblioteka Jagiellońska, popular nickname Jagiellonka) is the library of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and with almost 6.7 million volumes, one of the largest libraries in Poland, serving as a public library, university library and part of the Polish national library system. It has a large collection of medieval manuscripts, for example Copernicus' De Revolutionibus and Jan Długosz's Banderia Prutenorum, and a large collection of underground literature (so-called drugi obieg or samizdat) from the period of communist rule in Poland (1945–1989). The Jagiellonian also houses the Berlinka art collection, whose legal status is in dispute with Germany.
The Deputy Directors of Administration and Construction, 19th and 20th Century Materials, and Special Collections oversee a staff of 283 employees in fourteen different library departments.
Jagiellonian Library is one of the largest and most famous libraries in Poland; over its history it has received many donations and inherited many private collections.
Its collection contains 1,503,178 volumes of monographs, 557,199 volumes of periodicals, 104,012 early printed books, 3,586 incunabula, 24,258 manuscripts, 12,819 maps, 35,105 music scores, and 77,336 microforms. Among its music scores are many of Mozart's original autographs. “It was not until 1869 when the donation of Leon Rogalski from Warsaw became the foundation of a separate section of musical notes.” (para 1)
Notable rare books owned by the library include:
15th century copy of Bogurodzica
Jan Długosz – Banderia Prutenorum
Balthasar Behem Codex
Paulus Paulirini de Praga – Liber viginti artium
Nicolaus Copernicus – manuscript of De revolutionibus, and printed editions
Rembrandt van Rijn – Faust
Frédéric Chopin – Scherzo (E-dur)
Adam Mickiewicz, Pan Tadeusz, first edition, Paris 1834, Sonety, Moscow 1824.
Stanisław Moniuszko – Trzeci śpiewnik domowy. Muzyka wokalna z towarzyszeniem fortepianu
Juliusz Słowacki, Poezje Vol. 1-3, Paris 1833.
Stanisław Wyspiański – Wesele.
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