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The Gdansk Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences between 1955 and 1996

Helena Dzienis
Libri Gedanenses | 2018 | vol. 35 | 91-129
Keywords Gdansk Library Polish Academy of Sciences Gdansk – libraries
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The article attempts to present the functioning of the Gdansk Library under the patronage of the Polish Academy of Sciences. As of 1 January 1955, the scientific department of the Municipal Library in Gdansk was taken over by the Polish Academy of Sciences, and the thus established separate institution received new statutes regulating the activity of the Library and the scope of the development of its collections. Until the four-hundredth anniversary of the Gdansk Library (the establishment of Bibliotheca Senatus Gedanensis), descriptions of the history of the Gdansk PAS Library were mainly based on reports drawn up by the heads of the institution. It is on their basis that one may trace the difficult space and storage and warehouse conditions in which employees of the Library carried out their statutory tasks, with the constantly growing collections and the increasing load of services. The paper also reports the scientific works of employees of the Library as well as the editorial activity of the institution, including works documenting the collections of the Library. An important way of familiarising the general public with knowledge on the Gdansk Library and its collections was through exhibitions and displays organized by employees of the information and special collections departments.
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Helena Dzienis
1
ORCID: ORCID
  1. PAN Biblioteka Gdańska, Dział Zbiorów Specjalnych, Pracownia Numizmatów i Ekslibrisów

Memorial Across the Cent uries. The Book as a Memory -Shaping Element as Exemplified by the Oldest Collections

Beata Gryzio
Libri Gedanenses | 2021 | vol. 38 | 7-27 | DOI: 10.24425/libriged.2021.139663
Keywords libraries – history Gdańsk Library cultural memory Gdańsk 16th-18th c.
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This paper attempts to look at the history of the Gdańsk bookery in the context of the metaphor used by Samuel Schelwig in 1677, describing the Library of the Gdańsk City Council as a memorial erected owing to the donations of the subsequent generations – people willing to secure gratitude from the future generations through their participation in this noble project. The text also shows this practice in earlier, 15th-century realizations as exemplified by the collections of St. Mary’s Church Library, and presents the role of the commemorative function for the implementation of the idea to establish the current Gdańsk PAN Library in 1596. Here, this event is shown as a natural consequence of the city authorities being presented with the monastery library belonging to St. Franciscan monks from Gdańsk and the collection of books of Giovanni Bernardino Bonifacio, as well as the Gdańsk elite’s efforts to secure an institution of memory for the city and educational back-up facilities for local schools.
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Beata Gryzio
1 2
ORCID: ORCID
  1. Dział Zbiorów Specjalnych, PAN Biblioteka Gdańska, ul. Wałowa 15, 80-858 Gdańsk
  2. Szkoły Doktorskie Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, ul. Jana Bażyńskiego 8, 80-309 Gdańsk

Book Bindings Decorated with the Coat of Arms of Gdańsk from the 16th –18th Centuries

Helena Dzienis
Libri Gedanenses | 2021 | vol. 38 | 67-109 | DOI: 10.24425/libriged.2021.139665
Keywords Gdańsk – the city’s coat of arms books – historical bindings the Gdańsk Library– collections
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This paper seeks to present the characteristic types of collectors’ marks with the coat of arms of Gdańsk on the historical bindings of books from the collections of the Gdańsk Library. The city’s coat of arms as adopted in 1457 did not undergo any changes in the subsequent centuries, although its graphic form did. Its various elements were transformed relatively frequently, which created a sequence of heraldic varieties. This concerned in particular the shape of the escutcheon, as well as the representation of the crosses and the crown. The images of the two lions supporting the escutcheon also underwent changes. We have managed to identify more than twenty different representations of the coat of arms from the 16th–18th centuries on the original bindings of the gradually extended collection of manuscripts and early printed books.
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Dzienis H., Katalog zbioru numizmatycznego Biblioteki Gdańskiej Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Wrocław– Warszawa–Kraków–Gdańsk–Łódź 1984.
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Wagner A., Superekslibris polski. Studium o kulturze bibliofilskiej i sztuce od średniowiecza do połowy XVII wieku, Toruń 2016.
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Helena Dzienis
1
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  1. Dział Zbiorów Specjalnych, PAN Biblioteka Gdańska, ul. Wałowa 15, 80–858 Gdańsk

Book ownership marks: bookplates and seals of the Gdańsk Library from the 16th to the 21st century

Helena Dzienis
Libri Gedanenses | 2022 | vol. 39 | 9-37 | DOI: 10.24425/libriged.2022.145667
Keywords library bookplates library seals Library of the Council of the City of Gdańsk City Library in Gdańsk PAS Gdańsk Library
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This paper discusses the individual book ownership marks used in the Gdańsk Library from the end of the 16th to the beginning of the 21st century. In the first two centuries of existence of the Library of the Council of the City of Gdańsk, three subsequent copperplate bookplates were used as ownership marks. Established in the beginning of the 19th century, the City Library in Gdańsk marked its collections with seals with eight (six pre-war and two post-war) different patterns changed over time; they were imprinted using ink. The founding of the Gdańsk Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences in the mid-20th century resulted in the use of a further seven different seals.
Today, bookplates are no longer used to mark the collections of the Gdańsk Library. However, these ownership marks continue to be made to mark special occasions; some of them are described in this paper.
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Helena Dzienis
1
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  1. Dział Zbiorów Specjalnych, PAN Biblioteka Gdańska, ul. Wałowa 15, 80-858 Gdańsk

Municipal Library in Gdansk between 1945 and 1954

Maria Pelczar
Libri Gedanenses | 2018 | vol. 35 | 41-89
Keywords Municipal Library in Gdansk Gdansk – history of library collections replevin of library collections Marian Pelczar (1905–1983) “Gdansk Library”
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On 9 April 1945, Polish authorities officially took over one of the most valuable library holdings in Europe collected at the Danziger Stadtbibliothek (previously Bibliotheca Senatus Gedanensis). The most important tasks included the protection of the building and the bringing back of the most valuable items which towards the end of the war were taken away from Gdansk. They were found in the cellars of the Old Town Hall, in the Malbork Castle, and in the Pelplin Seminary.
The team of devoted librarians headed by dr. Marian Pelczar, director, spent the first year of their work on the tidying of the interior of the building, cleaning and shelving the relocated book collections and safeguarding the abandoned libraries in Gdansk and in its vicinity. Despite the extremely difficult conditions, it was as early as on 22 June 1946 that the readers and Polish science were provided with access to the Library’s resources which, in particular as regards Polonica, to that date were little known to scholars, not only Polish ones.
The tasks of the reborn Municipal Library were determined in its Organisational Charter adopted by the College of the City Board on 25 April 1946. The facility had a double nature: it functioned both as an educational library (the centre of a network of public reading rooms and libraries) and a scientific library (which included an information and bibliography centre). These two directions of activity determined the history of the Library until the end of 1954, when its scientific department was taken over by the Polish Academy of Sciences, and the educational one was merged with the Provincial Library.
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Maria Pelczar

A Library as a cure for the soul and the body. 15th century medical printed matters in the collections of the Gdansk Library

Beata Gryzio
Libri Gedanenses | 2018 | vol. 35 | 131-145
Keywords collections of medical books Gdansk – church libraries Gdansk Library history of medicine medical incunabula
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The article presents a selection of 15th century printed matters on the topic of broadly understood medicine, which are currently kept by the Gdansk PAS Library. They testify to the Gdansk culture in the area of the knowledge on health and hygiene in the 15th century and in a slightly later period. The majority of the said printed matters originate from the collections of Gdansk church libraries, while the presence of items of other origin (private owners) makes it possible to trace the road medical incunabula came to Gdansk to finally find their way to the resources of the Gdansk library.
The author of the article explains the modesty of the Gdansk medical literature resources with the fact that there was not a single university functioning in the city by the River Motlawa in the early modern period. The presence of this kind of incunabula in church libraries and private collections of books indicates that the knowledge they contained was applied for personal use rather than in professional medical practice, although some of the items in question originate from book collections belonging to doctors.
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Beata Gryzio
1
ORCID: ORCID
  1. PAN Biblioteka Gdańska, Dział Zbiorów Specjalnych, Pracownia Starych Druków

Teresa Ferenc and Zbigniew Jankowski’s archives in the collection of the Gdansk Library

Sabina Drożdziecka
Libri Gedanenses | 2018 | vol. 35 | 209-231
Keywords Teresa Ferenc (1934) Zbigniew Jankowski (1931) Polish poets of the 20th century Gdansk Library Pomerania – literature
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Since 1987, the poets Teresa Ferenc and Zbigniew Jankowski have been gradually donating their substantial archives containing personal documents, diplomas and honourable mentions, photographs, hand-written versions of their published works, notes with ideas concerning changes to their works, correspondence, and press cuttings from the period between the 1940s until the beginning of the 21st century, to the collections of the Gdansk PAN Library. At the moment, the Manuscripts Workshop keeps about 600 manuscript accession units; the most recent materials date to 2016.
The extensive correspondence of both poets may become a source material for research into the history of Polish literature in Pomerania in the second half of the 20th century. It makes up one of the most sizeable epistolary materials in the letter collections kept by the Library. Among the correspondents of the Sopot poets there are names who have found a perpetual place in the canon of Polish literature, such as Anna Kamieńska, Tadeusz Różewicz, Wisława Szymborska and Fr. Jan Twardowski.
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Sabina Drożdziecka
1
  1. PAN Biblioteka Gdańska, Dział Zbiorów Specjalnych, Pracownia Rękopisów

The Night of Museums at the Gdansk Library as a Tool of Promotion of the Facility in 2011–2019

Joanna Śliwa
Libri Gedanenses | 2020 | vol. 37 | 135-169
Keywords Night of Museums the Gdansk Library culture event display of historical collections exhibitions promotion of culture promotion of library collections
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For the Gdansk Library, participation in the Nights of Museums is an effective way of execution of its didactic and science-promoting goals defined in its mission. The interesting main themes, presentation of the library’s rich collections, as well as the involvement of the organisers and the participating staff members all translated into the success of the nine editions of the event between 2011 and 2019. Their subsequent main themes were: A night with Johannes Hevelius from the treasury of the Gdansk Library, Fashion for books – fashion in books, Horror in the library, The world of the library on one night, Taking a book to further than the horizon, The Library as a Garden, Gedanum domus nostra – Our home – Gdansk, In mari vita tua – In the sea is your life, Genius – on the 500th death anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci. During the past Night of Museums, visitors to the Library were most impressed by the displays in the Reading Room of Historical Collections. Such presentations are sometimes the only opportunity to have a close contact with valuable manuscripts, old printed books, prints, and other special collections, and to hear competent staff members talking about them. Regular attractions of the Night of Museums included displays referring to the theme of the event in the exhibition room and a sale of library publications in the hall of the historical building at ul. Wałowa 15. The subsequent organisers of the project, also in cooperation with other cultural institutions from the Tri-City, each time enriched the programme with fascinating talks, thematic workshops, and even concerts. During the subsequent editions of the Night of Museums, the Gdansk Library hosted an average of 670 visitors, which testifies to the value of this tool of promotion of the library.
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Joanna Śliwa
1
  1. PAN Biblioteka Gdańska, Dział Nowej Książki

Ślady Johanna Georga Adama Forstera w zbiorach Biblioteki Gdańskiej

Magdalena Madeja-Grzyb
Libri Gedanenses | 2019 | vol. 36 | 69-83
Keywords Johann Georg Adam Forster (1754–1794) Johann Reinhold Forster(1729–1798) PAN Biblioteka Gdańska – zbiory II wyprawa Jamesa Cooka dookoła świata Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859)
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W artykule przedstawiono wszelkie ślady po Johannie Georgu Adamie Forsterze (1754–1794) zachowane w zbiorach PAN Biblioteki Gdańskiej. Znany polskoniemiecki przyrodnik i podróżnik, urodzony niedaleko Gdańska, był autorem prac naukowych, dzieł podróżniczych i politycznych, a nawet rewolucjonistą. Autorka artykułu omówiła zarówno fragmentaryczne materiały rękopiśmienne dotyczące J. G. A. Forstera, jak i jego liczne drukowane publikacje oraz opracowania mu poświęcone, powstałe do 1800 roku i znajdujące się w obecnych zbiorach Biblioteki Gdańskiej. Nie pominęła działalności translatorskiej i wydawniczej tego autora, profesora uniwersytetów w Wilnie i w Kassel, której poświęcał się m.in. w celach zarobkowych. Wspomniała również o zachowanym w gdańskiej książnicy dorobku naukowym jego ojca, również przyrodnika, Johanna Reinholda Forstera (1729–1798). Obaj Forsterowie, starszy i młodszy, uczestniczyli w słynnej drugiej wyprawie kapitana Jamesa Cooka dookoła świata w latach 1772–1775, zrelacjonowanej w dwutomowym dziele, znanym w niemieckiej wersji jako Johann Reinhold Forster’s und Georg Forster’s Reise um die Welt in den Jahren 1772 bis 1775, Berlin 1778–1780. Natomiast za drugą co do ważności, tym razem samodzielną pozycją w dorobku Forstera młodszego uważana jest praca Ansichten vom Niederrhein, von Brabant, Flandern, Holland, England und Frankreich im April, Mai und Junius 1790, Berlin 1791–1794 – trzyczęściowa relacja z podróży po Europie odbytej wraz z Alexandrem von Humboldtem w pierwszym okresie rewolucji francuskiej.
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Magdalena Madeja-Grzyb
1
  1. PAN Biblioteka Gdańska, Dział Zbiorów Specjalnych, Pracownia Starych Druków

Remnants of the Zernecke family’s library in Biblioteka Gdańska

Helena Dzienis
Libri Gedanenses | 2015 | vol. 31/32 | 23-47
Keywords Walter Friedrich Heinrich Zernecke (1862–1925) the Zernecke family Gdańsk Biblioteka Gdańska Gdańsk patricians
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The purpose of the paper is to discuss the Zernecke family’s library curated by PAN Biblioteka Gdańska.
Walter Friedrich Heinrich Zernecke (1862–1925) bequeathed his book-collection (1321 volumes) and his family collection of souvenirs to the library. The author reconstructed the contents of the collection on the basis of marks of ownership that occur in the survived books. The collection consists mainly of books devoted to historical, heraldic and genealogical studies (by Jacob Heinrich, Daniel Andreas, Valentin Heinrich, Wilhelm Ferdinand and Walter Friedrich Heinrich). Zernecke’s manuscript collection contains materials written by prominent members of the Zernecke family (Jacob Heinrich, Heinrich and Daniel Andreas). The most valuable part of the collection is a group of iconographic materials including an oil painting (Heinrich Zernecke’s portait by J. Wessel), engravings and photographic portraits of the family members and their book plates.
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Helena Dzienis
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Giovanni Bernardino Bonifacio (1517–1597), a liege lord from Apulia in Moravia and the women in his life

Manfred Welti
Libri Gedanenses | 2015 | vol. 31/32 | 103-121
Keywords Giovanni Bernardino Bonifacio (1517–1597) Biblioteka Gdańska Moravia 16th c. occasional poetry humanistic book-collections
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The eternal traveller, who was to become the founder of the Gdańsk Library, traversed Moravia several times and sojourned there at least twice. During his stay of 1562–1564, which was probably the longest, died his little dog named Viola, a reminiscency of his Apulian fatherland taken along in exile. Bonifacio wrote elegies after that death, in which he utters many names of persons of similar Weltanschauung he knew. Together with him mourned his favourite servant Julia: she was to be unable to stand the consequent void of the death and abandoned her master (and lover). So Bonifacio was hit by a double loss. He tried to overcome the depression in which he stayed: He succeeded with the animal, the dogs, who were to accompany him as far as to Gdańsk, but he failed with the women. He was to go his way without company, dedicating his leisure to the reading of his books (he possessed over 1000 volumes), but merging into depression. Blinded in a shipwreck, he bequeathed his books and the manuscript with the verses on Viola in 1591 to the city of Gdańsk; he died six years later.
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Manfred Welti

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