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Libri Gedanenses

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Libri Gedanenses | 2016 | vol. 33

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Gerhard Cimmermann (1541–1602), a Gdańsk councillor, donated 49 books to Bibliotheca Senatus Gedanensis (August 13th, 1598). The abbreviated descriptions of the donatory collection items were included on three pages in Index Librorum, the first catalogue of Bibliotheca Senatus Gedanensis. Fifteen books from the original collection have survived until the present day. The identification was based on the owner’s dedication note and bookplate attached to the books. Apparently, before donating his books, Gerhard Cimmermann ordered a special bookplate to mark his ownership. Cimmermann’s oval-shaped copperplate bookplate with the Polish Korab coat of arms in the centre has two letters, G and C, on both sides and the date: 1597 beneath the heraldic design. The article includes a list of the preserved books.
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Helena Dzienis
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Occasional poetry included important genres of Gdańsk literature. The development of the poetry climaxed in the 17th century when Gdańsk experienced rapid growth in the field of science, culture and economy. Johann Peter Titz (1619–1689) was a professor of rhetoric at the Academic Gymnasium in Gdańsk and one of the most prolific authors of occasional poetry. Besides writing poems for the occasion, Titz was often himself a formal addressee of the poems. The events in Titz’s life became the subjects of a number of epithalamiums, epitaphs and gratulatory poems written by Titz’s friends including students and professors of the Academic Gymnasium in Gdańsk (Samuel Schelwig (1643–1715), Christoph Behr (1642–1704), Friedrich Büthner (1622–1701) and the members of the patriciate in Gdańsk (Johann Ernst Schmieden (1626–1707), Constantin Freder (1643–1707). The article provides a preliminary analysis of the occasional poetry composed for Titz and the register of the poems that have survived in the holdings of the PAS Gdańsk Library.
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Maria Otto
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The aim of this article is to describe the silver tankard made by Nathaniel Pressding I for the wedding of Johann Peter Titz with Aurelia von Strackwitz in 1678. The bride and groom received the cup from the students of the Academic Gymnasium in Gdańsk. One of the customary rituals in Gdańsk involved giving gold and silver coins, medals and dinnerware as wedding gifts. Silver tankards were one of the most popular gifts in the late 1600s. The decorations on the tableware were chosen to match the importance of an occasion. In the case of wedding gifts the ornaments were taken either from Bible stories (Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, Isaac and Rebecca, the Wedding Feast at Cana) or from Greek and Roman art. The scene of the relief of the tankard’s corpus presents popular decorative elements with Cupid taken from Otto van Veen’s Amorum emblemata… (Antverpiae 1608). The described object is striking in the perfection of its workmanship and refined expression of the creator’s expertise. It is also an example of the first use of the master craftsman’s mark.
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Anna Frąckowska
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The portrait of Heinrich Schwarzwald IV (1619–1672) was incorporated into the PAS Gdańsk Library’s collection back in 1832. Heinrich Schwarzwald IV was the founder of the book collection for the Petrischule in Gdańsk. The oil painting on canvas in a period frame with no signature was painted in the mid–1600s. Both the book collection and the portrait were actually donated to the school at St. Peter and Paul Church after the death of Heinrich Schwarzwald IV’s nephew, Heinrich Schwarzwald V, in 1708. For a long period of time the uncle’s merits were attributed to the nephew due to the same names. In 1860 Gotthilf Löschin identified the real founder of the above mentioned library. The article, in turn, settles down the matter of the identification of the portrayed person. The painting was presumably painted by Andreas Stech (1635–1697). The source data confirm the mutual contacts between the painter and Heinrich Schwarzwald IV. Before being donated to the library, the painting underwent an intensive and thorough restoration performed by Franz Joseph Manskirch in the 1820s.
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Krystyna Jackowska
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Magnus Bruski (1886–1945) was ordained to the priesthood in 1913. Bruski’s whole life was strongly connected with Gdansk. His duties as a priest were manifold and comprised remaining the office of a parish priest at St. Nichola’s Church (1935–45) and a vicar general of the diocese of Gdańsk (1934–38). Bruski actively worked in the Free City of Gdańsk succumbed at that time to National Socialism. He was frequently criticised for popularising the knowledge about the Polish language among German clergymen. Bruski died of typhus on July 9th, 1945. The St. Nichola’s Church’s book collection including the private library of Magnus Bruski (75 items) was lucky enough to be preserved only thanks to support from the Dominican friars in 1945. The collection is now a part of the holdings of PAN Gdansk Library. It is now a testimony of their owner’s great need of personal development and his mission to prevent and reduce alcohol abuse in Gdańsk.
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Aleksander Baliński
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The bibliography includes printed matriculation albums of universities, registers of members of student fraternities and nationalities preserved in the holdings of the PAS Gdańsk Library. The matriculation albums are a valuable source of information in biographic, genealogical, cultural and social research. Due to their merits as important scientific tools they were edited and published as early as in the 19th century. The bibliography includes sources dated 1289–1944 from 59 towns and 14 European countries (listed in the article under the modern country names), the oldest of which is matriculation record of the University in Bologna, the last one is a list of Polish students of the Medical Department at University in Königsberg. The items in the catalogue are arranged according to the names of the mentioned towns (in the Polish version). Within the category of the towns the author enumerates the matriculation albums, registers of nationalities and student fraternities, as well as other kinds of records, all arranged in alphabetical order. The sources that were impossible to be allocated to any of the above mentioned groups were placed in the appendix.
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Stefania Sychta
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Poniższy tekst jest polskim tłumaczeniem publikacji Die Danziger Stadtbibliothek. Ihre Entwicklung und ihr Neubau, Danzig 1905, która ukazała się z okazji otwarcia nowego gmachu Biblioteki Miejskiej w Gdańsku. Autorzy, Otto Günther i Karl Kleefeld, przedstawili dzieje książnicy, powstałej jako Biblioteka Rady Miasta Gdańska w 1596 roku i przekształconej w Bibliotekę Miejską w 1817 roku, oraz kolejne siedziby instytucji w byłym klasztorze franciszkańskim i kościele św. Jakuba; a także architekturę, wystrój i wyposażenie nowego budynku przy obecnej ul. Wałowej 15.
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Otto Günther
Karl Kleefeld

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dr hab. Bogdan Burliga (Uniwersytet Gdański)
dr hab. Sławomir Kościelak (Uniwersytet Gdański)
prof. dr hab. Krzysztof Lewalski (Uniwersytet Gdański)
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prof. dr hab. Tadeusz Stegner (Uniwersytet Gdański)
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dr Anna Żeglińska (Uniwersytet Gdański)

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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)

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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)


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