@ARTICLE{Gryzio_Beata_Memorial_2021, author={Gryzio, Beata}, volume={vol. 38}, journal={Libri Gedanenses}, pages={7-27}, howpublished={online}, year={2021}, publisher={Polska Akademia Nauk, Biblioteka Gdańska}, abstract={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.}, type={Artykuły / Articles}, title={Memorial Across the Cent uries. The Book as a Memory -Shaping Element as Exemplified by the Oldest Collections}, URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/122248/PDF-MASTER/03%20Pomnik%20ponad%20wiekami,%20s.%207-28.pdf}, doi={10.24425/libriged.2021.139663}, keywords={libraries – history, Gdańsk Library, cultural memory, Gdańsk, 16th-18th c.}, }