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Libri Gedanenses

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Libri Gedanenses is a scientific publication of the Gdańsk PAS Library, a journal constituting a forum for the presentation of the collections of the Gdańsk bookery. Issued since 1968, the annual was created by dr Marian Pelczar, a long-standing head of the Library. The scientific activity of the Gdansk PAS Library is directed at the exploration of the Gdansk, Polish, and European world of the book.

Libri Gedanenses presents the achievements both of the employees of the Library and authors from other scientific centres, in line with its profile adopted by its Programme Board. The journal publishes texts in both Polish and English.

Libri Gedanenses is indexed in EBSCO databases.

ISSN

ISSN 0075-9163

Publishers

Polska Akademia Nauk, Biblioteka Gdańska

Programme Board

prof. dr hab. Krzysztof Migoń
University of Wrocław, prof. em.

dr Maria Pelczar
former director of the Gdańsk Library of PAS

prof. dr Guido Vannini
Università degli Studi di Firenze, prof. em.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7903-3961

Editorial Board

dr Aleksander Baliński (editor-in-chief)
Gdańsk PAS Library
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5774-6637

Wanda Pętlicka (secretary)
Gdańsk PAS Library

dr Zofia Tylewska-Ostrowska
Gdańsk PAS Library
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8497-9823

dr Anna Walczak (head)
Director of Gdańsk PAS Library

Libri Gedanenses
PAN Biblioteka Gdańska
80-858 Gdańsk,
ul. Wałowa 15
libri@bg.pan.pl

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Libri Gedanenses | 2017 | vol. 34

1 Front pages

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2 Jan Walter of Chojnice as a precursor of the Gdansk supralibros tradition

Arkadiusz Wagner

Libri Gedanenses | 2017 | vol. 34 | 5-22

Keywords: Jan Walter of Chojnice late Gothic bookbinding in Gdansk supralibros signet seals

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Jan Walter of Chojnice (*about 1445, †1512), initially a vicar, and then a parson of St. Peter and Paul’s Church, as well as a secretary of Gdansk City Council, is one of the best known figures associated with the old book culture in Gdansk. The article describes one of the aspects of his bibliophilia: book covers marked with supralibros. It first discusses works by local bookbinders made for Walter, and then analyses a supralibros in the form of a miniature oval featuring the mark of a bibliophile (the head of a Negro) against the background of the European and local tradition of marking books in late Middle Ages. As a result, it is demonstrated that six from among the Gdansk citizen’s books we currently know, which contain the mark, were provided with it secondarily. This is mainly indicated by the non-typical locations of the supralibros – each one is in a way “squeezed in” between the regularly spaced elements of the blind embossing adornment of the covers.

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Arkadiusz Wagner

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Instytut Informacji Naukowej i Bibliologii Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu

3 Coat-of-arms supralibros of Gdańsk citizens between the 16th and 18th Centuries

Helena Dzienis

Libri Gedanenses | 2017 | vol. 34 | 23-55

Keywords: Gdansk – burghers’ book collections between the 16th and 18th centuries Gdansk bibliophiles between the 16th and 18th centuries Gdansk – supralibros between the16th and 18th centuries Gdansk – heraldry

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The cult of the book in Gdansk manifested itself in the numerous substantial private libraries, marked by the features and qualities of bibliophile facilities, as indicated by the artistic bindings, ex-libris and supralibros of their owners. After their owner’s death, many of the book collections of Gdansk bibliophiles were provided to the municipal library, of which the current Gdansk PAN Library is the heir and continuator. The books have historical bindings, represent a variety of styles and epochs, and many different adornment techniques. The majority of Gdansk patrician families and wealthy burghers belonging to the political, cultural, and scientific elite of the city had coats-of-arms granted to them by the Polish, Danish, or Swedish rulers, or Roman-German emperors. From among many volumes kept in the collection of the Gdansk Library and marked with coat-of-arms supralibros, sample prints from the collections of thirteen representatives of Gdansk bibliophiles were selected.

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Helena Dzienis

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PAN Biblioteka Gdańska, Dział Zbiorów Specjalnych, Pracownia Numizmatów i Ekslibrisów

4 Bernt Stegmann, a citizen of Gdansk, and his moralising compilation of 1528

Julia Możdżeń

Libri Gedanenses | 2017 | vol. 34 | 57-89

Keywords: town chronicle history of Gdansk Royal Prussia Teutonic Order legend of St. Hedwig of Silesia Christian II of Denmark and Sweden Kingdom of Jerusalem

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The Gdansk chronicle by Bernt Stegmann was written in the East Central German language (Ostmitteldeutsch) in 1528 and is the oldest surviving historiographic artefact concerning Gdansk. The article sums up the author’s latest findings concerning the circumstances in which the chronicle was written and the probable addressee of the work. She also puts forward some hypotheses regarding the origin of the compiler, discusses the structure of the manuscript and the manner of its production.
The chronicle is a compilation of some older historiographic sources, which place the history of the Main City of Gdansk in world history: the Jerusalem rulers and the history of the Teutonic Order. It is a type of a universal town chronicle. The content is moralizing – the compilation is a collection of historical examples teaching how to rule the town properly. It was probably written for didactic purposes for young Hans Kremer, the future mayor of Gdansk.
Bernt Stegmann was a merchant trading in such places as Stockholm and Reval. The toponymic criterion indicates that his family could originate from the area of Brandenburg or Braniewo, while the dialect in which he wrote the chronicle as well as the numerous Silesian threads in the content also make it possible to be open to the hypothesis that Stegmann’s family could have come from Silesia. This question remains unresolved. The manuscript was written and made personally by Bernt Stegmann, as indicated by the atypical arrangement of its sections and non-professional binding.

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Julia Możdżeń

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Biblioteka Uniwersytecka w Toruniu, Oddział Zbiorów Specjalnych, Sekcja Starych Druków
Towarzystwo Naukowe w Toruniu, Wydział I Historyczny

5 Dissertations of Gdańsk doctors in the collections of the Gdańsk Library – research perspectives

Bartłomiej Siek

Libri Gedanenses | 2017 | vol. 34 | 91-101

Keywords: history of Gdansk medicine Gdansk in the early modern period medical prints doctoral dissertations

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Being one of the most important centres in the history of Polish medicine, Gdansk attracted many eminent doctors. Physicians (municipal doctors) and professors from the anatomy department of the Academic Gymnasium Danzig won their doctoral degrees at European universities, and when arriving in Gdansk, they often provided a copy of their dissertation to the Library of the City Council. The article presents results of the initial analysis of the medical print resources kept by the Gdansk PAN Library, including works by the Gymnasium graduates and doctors’ publications other than their doctoral dissertations printed in Gdansk. A comparative analysis of the selected twenty five prints (call marks Fa 69 8o, Sa 30 8o, XIX q. 83d, XIX q. 83f) was carried out with a view to determining the potential research problems and their relationship with the relevant sources.

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Bartłomiej Siek

Zakład Historii i Filozofii Nauk Medycznych Gdańskiego Uniwersytetu Medycznego

6 Johann Gottlieb Bartoldi’s Calendars issued in Gdańsk between 1776 and 1789. Tradition and modernity

Piotr Paluchowski

Libri Gedanenses | 2017 | vol. 34 | 103-115

Keywords: Gdansk Johann Gottlieb Bartoldi calendars Enlightenment

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This article presents Gdansk calendars by the mathematician Johann Gottlieb Bartoldi (1736–1788), which were published from 1776 until 1789. The almanacs were entitled: “Neuer und Alter Kunst- und Tugend-Calender”, “Neuer und Alter Haus- und Geschichts-Calender” and “Allgemeiner Landwirtschafts-Calender”. This text highlights those aspects which depict the traditionalism and conservatism of the calendars, originating from the beginning of the eighteenth century.

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Piotr Paluchowski

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Zakład Historii i Filozofii Nauk Medycznych Gdańskiego Uniwersytetu Medycznego
Muzeum Historyczne Miasta Gdańska

7 Non-published prose works from the Gdańsk period of the oeuvre of Stanisława Przybyszewska

Dagmara Binkowska

Libri Gedanenses | 2017 | vol. 34 | 117-141

Keywords: Stanisława Przybyszewska literature of the interwar period Free City of Danzig

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The article presents the content of non-published prose works by Stanisława Przybyszewska (1901–1935) from the Gdansk period of her oeuvre, i.e. from the period between 1923 and 1935. The author focuses on the widespread belief that Przybyszewska was interested only in the French Revolution and shows that this is erroneous: her works are much richer in topics, and are not limited solely to the play The Danton Case. On the basis of materials kept in the PAN Archives in Warsaw, the PAN Branch in Poznan and their digital copies kept in the Gdansk PAN Library, along with the description of manuscripts and typescripts, the author summarises the plot and issues discussed in such works as Asymptoty, Po omacku, Fons iuventutis, Twórczość Gerarda Gasztowta, Pasiphaë, Wybraniec losu, Eine realistische Studie, I Roma przeszła, Marcowy poranek, Sterylitas and Vanitas vanitatum, showing the extent to which Przybyszewska’s works can be useful in research devoted to the Polish literature from the interwar period as well as the history of the culture of the Free City of Danzig.

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Dagmara Binkowska

PAN Biblioteka Gdańska, Dział Druków XIX i 1. poł. XX w.

8 Marian Pelczar as a post-war custodian of the collections of the Municipal Library in Gdańsk

Ryszard Nowicki

Libri Gedanenses | 2017 | vol. 34 | 143-157

Keywords: libraries Gdansk Marian Pelczar (1905–1983) protection of books Poland 20th century

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The article presents the significant role of director Marian Pelczar in the post-war rescuing of the collections of the Municipal Library in Gdansk (currently Gdansk Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences). The actions related to the protection of book and manuscript collections after the Second World War were of key importance for the reconstruction of the Polish libraries and library science. Of particular importance was the period from 1945 until 1946, when the fate of the physical survival of many library materials hung in the air. Dr Marian Pelczar lavished tender care on the most precious collections of the Municipal Library and managed to extend them to include fragments of historical books and manuscripts from the region of Pomerelia. Acting during the exceptionally difficult post-war times, he contributed to the preservation of the precious heritage of regional, domestic, and European written culture of various provenance.

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Ryszard Nowicki

Instytutu Historii i Stosunków Międzynarodowych Uniwersytetu Kazimierza Wielkiego w Bydgoszczy

9 The Annual Report of the PAS Gdańsk Library (2016)

Zofia Tylewska-Ostrowska

Libri Gedanenses | 2017 | vol. 34 | 159-174

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Zofia Tylewska-Ostrowska

10 Archives of the Gdansk Library as a useful source of knowledge for researchers

Regina Liczmańska

Libri Gedanenses | 2017 | vol. 34 | 175-187

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Regina Liczmańska

PAN Biblioteka Gdańska, Archiwum Zakładowe

11 Spis treści / Table of contents / Inhaltsverzeichnis

Libri Gedanenses | 2017 | vol. 34

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12 Autorzy XXXIV tomu „Libri Gedanenses”

Libri Gedanenses | 2017 | vol. 34

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Instructions for authors

Instructions for authors

Information for authors

Decisions on whether any given text shall be published are taken by the Editors of Libri Gedanenses. After receiving positive reviews, they also decide on the placement of submissions in one of the following sections: ‘papers and announcements’, ‘materials’, ‘essays’, or ‘reviews and polemics’. The Editors do not accept materials which are inconsistent with the editorial guidelines and reserve the right to introduce changes and shorten texts, as well as to select illustrations in consultation with Authors. The submitted materials are not returned.
Authors transfer to Gdańsk PAS Library the copyright and related rights to the published texts in all currently known areas of exploitation, including the ones specified in Art. 50 of the Act of 4 February 1994 on Copyright and Related Rights, in particular: copying and reproducing by print or digital technique, putting copies into circulation, and disseminating them in digital form.

Libri Gedanenses does not pay fees to authors. Authors receive one copy of the annual and a digital version of their publication (pdf).

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The Editors of Libri Gedanenses kindly ask Authors to comply with the guidelines concerning the preparation and submission of texts and illustrations for publication that are presented below. Authors are required to specify their academic/professional title/degree, current place of work, and their e-mail address – or, if necessary, address for correspondence.
Texts should be prepared in WORD in the RTF format. Papers should not have more than 48,000 characters (spaces inclusive), and reviews no more than 12,000 characters (spaces inclusive). Text formatting: font Times New Roman 12, line spacing 1.5 points; formatting of footnotes: font Times New Roman 10, line spacing 1.5 points. Footnotes and bibliographies should be modelled on the ones published in the journal. An abstract of 800-1200 characters (spaces inclusive) and 5-7 keywords should be provided with every text.
Illustrations should be made in the TIFF format, 600 dpi. Every list of illustrations must contain information on who are the authors of scans/photos and copyright owners.
Texts and illustrations should be submitted in the digital form to libri@bg.pan.pl (or, exceptionally, on a CD/DVD by post to: Libri Gedanenses, PAN Biblioteka Gdańska, 80-858 Gdańsk, ul. Wałowa 15).

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Archival issues

Bibliography of the contents of Libri Gedanenses volumes 1-35 (1968-2018) is available at https://bgpan.gda.pl/o-bibliotece/libri-gedanenses/

Publication Ethics Policy

Publication ethics

The publication ethics of Libri Gedanenses are consistent with the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics https://publicationethics.org/files/Code_of_conduct_for_journal_editors_Mar11.pdf

The Editorial Board evaluates the submitted works in terms of their contents without regard to the authors. All the submitted materials remain confidential. They are only available to editors, reviewers and, in some cases, the editors’ advisors. Reviews are confidential also.

Libri Gedanenses publishes only original texts. The Editors expect authors to maintain scientific reliability and respect publication standards, with particular regard to quoting the results of other authors’ works. It is assumed that authors had read the works they refer to.

All persons who contributed a significant input into the development of the work should be mentioned as co-authors. The first author mentioned should submit the final text to the journal after it has been approved as the version for publication by all other co-authors.

The Editorial Board is entitled to reject the work if it is guilty of plagiarism, if the text has already been published, or if the presented research results turn out to be unreliable due to the author’s conscious activity or their involuntary error.

Peer-review Procedure

Reviewing procedure

Preliminary decisions on the rejection or acceptance of the works submitted for reviewing are taken by the Editorial Board of Libri Gedanenses. The basic evaluation criteria include the consistence of the topic with the journal’s profile, the text’s scientific value, its logical organization and linguistic form. The accepted materials are edited in agreement with the authors.

The papers undergo a double blind review process. Each of them is reviewed by two reviewers selected in a manner excluding a conflict of interests with the author. Reviewers recommend that the reviewed papers be accepted, suggesting the introduction of corrections, or that they be rejected. Reviews are made in writing and are completed with a clear evaluation of a given work under review. It is on their basis that the final decisions are taken by the Editorial Board.

Non-scientific texts – such as reviews, polemics, obituaries and reports – are in principle not reviewed, although they may be referred for a review.

A full list of reviewers is given in the appropriate volume of the journal.

Reviewers

Tom 40 (2023)

dr hab. Bogdan Burliga (Uniwersytet Gdański)
dr hab. Sławomir Kościelak (Uniwersytet Gdański)
prof. dr hab. Krzysztof Lewalski (Uniwersytet Gdański)
dr hab. Gabriela Majewska (Uniwersytet Gdański)
prof. dr hab. Mieczysław Nurek
dr hab. Iwona Sakowicz-Tebinka (Uniwersytet Gdański)
dr hab. Marek Stażewski
prof. dr hab. Tadeusz Stegner (Uniwersytet Gdański)
prof. dr hab. Jacek Tebinka (Uniwersytet Gdański)
dr Anna Żeglińska (Uniwersytet Gdański)

Tom 39 (2022)

dr Zbigniew I. Brzostowski (Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Gdańsku)
dr hab. Bogdan Burliga (Uniwersytet Gdański)
dr hab. Karol Łopatecki (Uniwersytet w Białymstoku)
dr Anna Łysiak-Łątkowska (Uniwersytet Gdański)
dr hab. Gabriela Majewska (Uniwersytet Gdański)
dr hab. Radosław Skrycki (Uniwersytet Szczeciński)
dr hab. Iwona Sakowicz-Tebinka (Uniwersytet Gdański)

Tom 38 (2021)

dr Zbigniew I. Brzostowski (Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Gdańsku)
dr hab. Bogdan Burliga (Uniwersytet Gdański)
dr Anna Łysiak-Łątkowska (Uniwersytet Gdański)
dr hab. Gabriela Majewska (Uniwersytet Gdański)
dr hab. Iwona Sakowicz-Tebinka (Uniwersytet Gdański)
dr hab. Andrzej Woziński (Uniwersytet Gdański)