LXIX (2024)

2024

Publication date: 02.2025

Licence: CC BY-NC-ND

Editorial team

Deputy Editor-in-Chief Karolina Grodziska

Editor-in-Chief Agnieszka Fluda-Krokos

Issue content

Od Redakcji

Agnieszka Fluda-Krokos, Karolina Grodziska

The Annual of the Scientific Library of the PAAS and the PAS in Cracow, LXIX (2024), 2024, pp. 3-7

https://doi.org/10.4467/25440500RBN.24.001.21165

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PATRONS OF THE YEAR 2024

Pamiątki po Czesławie Miłoszu w zbiorach Biblioteki Naukowej PAU i PAN w Krakowie

Agnieszka Fluda-Krokos, Karolina Grodziska

The Annual of the Scientific Library of the PAAS and the PAS in Cracow, LXIX (2024), 2024, pp. 11-20

https://doi.org/10.4467/25440500RBN.24.002.21166

The year 2024 being declared the Year of Czesław Miłosz, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of his death, gives an inducement to recalling the poet also from the perspective of trivia, which do not make a specific unit in the Scientific Library of the PAAS and the PAS, but in different departments are obvious traces of the Nobelist presence in the collections. From poetry books and second-circuit publications, to manuscripts and trivia, and lastly to ex libris dedicated to Miłosz.

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Papiery osobiste, korespondencja i autografy Wincentego Witosa w zbiorach Biblioteki Naukowej PAU i PAN w Krakowie

Łukasz Łukawski

The Annual of the Scientific Library of the PAAS and the PAS in Cracow, LXIX (2024), 2024, pp. 21-40

https://doi.org/10.4467/25440500RBN.24.003.21167

Wincenty Witos, a politician, the prime minister of the Republic of Poland, and the leader of the people’s movement was born on January 21, 1874 in Wierzchosławice outside of Tarnów. The year 2024 marks the hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of this outstanding Pole and statesman’s birth, on which occasion the Sejm of the Republic of Poland on July 28, 2023 passed a resolution declaring 2024 as the year of Wincenty Witos.

The Manuscript Collection of the Scientific Library of the PAAS and the PAS in Cracow contains a large body of materials and memorabilia related to this long-standing leader of the people’s movement. The anniversary is an occasion to choose and discuss those most interesting and valuable of them. They consist of fragments of correspondence conducted by Witos, as well as letters addressed to him, both autographs and handwritten and typewritten copies. Another valuable source are personal documents of Wincenty Witos, tied mostly to his political activism, though among them are also fragments of the autograph of his memoir. Wincenty Witos, during his long-term public activity in the political life of Galicia, and later the Second Polish Republic, held state and parliamentary positions, as well as ones connected with his activism in the people’s movement, in the Manuscript Collection of the Scientific Library of the PAAS and the PAS in Cracow there is no shortage of official letters and papers documenting this activity. The last collection worth discussing is that of few but interesting photographs of this outstanding politician.

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ARTICLES AND EDITIONS

Druki berdyczowskiej Drukarni Fortecy NMP. WW. OO. Karmelitów bosych w zbiorach starych druków Biblioteki Naukowej PAU i PAN w Krakowie

Barbara Bonar CHR

The Annual of the Scientific Library of the PAAS and the PAS in Cracow, LXIX (2024), 2024, pp. 41-48

https://doi.org/10.4467/25440500RBN.24.004.21168

The Early Prints collection of the Scientific Library of the PAAS and the PAS in Cracow contains 12 volumes coming from the Printing House of the Carmel in Berdyczów. There are also two prints with the fake Berdyczów publishing address. This article will showcase the aforementioned prints and present their provenance.

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Kobiety jako dawczynie Towarzystwa Naukowego Krakowskiego w latach 1857–1871

Karolina Grodziska

The Annual of the Scientific Library of the PAAS and the PAS in Cracow, LXIX (2024), 2024, pp. 49-72

https://doi.org/10.4467/25440500RBN.24.005.21169

Created in 1815, the Cracow Learned Society from the beginning of its existence has been the addressee of many donations from the public as one of the few Polish scientific institutions under the partitions. The donations had a financial as well as material nature, such as scientific works, early prints, atlases and maps, manuscripts, parchment diplomas, engravings, paintings, sculptures, interesting daily use objects, but also coins and medals, archaeological exhibits, natural findings, ethnographic objects and patriotic memorabilia. Between 1858 and 1871, before the Society transformed into the Academy of Arts and Sciences, an institution with a higher status, accurate records of donations were kept. Thanks to that, it was possible to distinguish from the donors a group of 66 donations given by 57 women, wherein the donation could contain several dozen or even several hundred objects. The donations were of a very diverse nature. The text currently presented is an attempt at identifying all the female donors of museum and library objects (since the records in the Society’s sources are at times limited to only the last name) and characterizing this specific group of women. They came from different environments, from aristocrats to humble townswomen, they were Polish, but also Jewish and probably German. They had different social and financial status, yet they all had in common the fact that they were ahead of their time, donating to the Society objects worthy of attention, with the thought of scientific or museum aims or simply preserving national memorabilia. In only some of the cases their actions were an implementation of the testamentary will of their loved ones, e.g. of a deceased husband or brother; however, most of them seem to be initiated by the women themselves. The case of the women’s monetary contributions for the needs of the Cracow Learned Society was also indicated.

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Kuracyjna wyprawa do Karlsbadu oraz zwiedzanie Pragi i Drezna w 1876 r. w relacji Aleksandry Czechówny

Bożena Lesiak-Przybył

The Annual of the Scientific Library of the PAAS and the PAS in Cracow, LXIX (2024), 2024, pp. 73-96

https://doi.org/10.4467/25440500RBN.24.006.21170

Aleksandra Apolonia Czechówna (1839–1923) was the daughter of Tomasz Czech and Aleksandra née Zielińska. Her “Journal”, written almost continuously for nearly 68 years (1856–1923), stored in the National Archives in Krakow with ref. no. 29/1582/1– 29/1582/44 (former ref. no. IT 428/1–428/44), is an excellent source illustrating the cultural, social and daily life of Kraków in the second half of the 19th century and the first two decades of the 20th century.
Presented fragment of the “Journal” reports the trip of Aleksandra Czechówna with her mother Aleksandra Czechówna made for medical purposes in the summer of 1876 to Karlsbad, a famous health resort, which thanks to its mineral water springs and climate provided the patients with comprehensive treatment. The trip caused by the bad state of the mother’s health was unexpected. On the way to Karlsbad, Czechówna and her mother stopped at Praga and admired its monuments.
The treatment lasted five weeks, and included baths, drinking water from the spring and walks in the nearby forests. The ladies also took the opportunity to visit Franzensbad, Marienbad and Aich. On the way back the ladies first admired the sights of Saxon Switzerland, then the monuments and museums of Dresden, and lastly the city of Wrocław. Czechówna came back from the trip delighted and full of positive impressions. She saw many new places and got to know the customs prevailing there.
The presented fragment of the “Journal” may bring little information to the history of the discussed health resorts, but it is an interesting contribution to the daily life of that period, to the ongoing changes, when the resorts and mineral water treatments were developing. The fragment attached below comes from the 15th volume of the “Journal” of Aleksandra Czechówna, sygn. 29/1582/15 (former ref. no. IT 428/15), consisting of 449 pages and including entries from May 11, 1876 to September 27, 1877.

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Sprawa przeniesienia prochów Adama Mickiewicza z Montmorency na Wawel w świetle korespondencji między Józefem Ignacym Kraszewskim a Władysławem Mickiewiczem

Piotr Tylus

The Annual of the Scientific Library of the PAAS and the PAS in Cracow, LXIX (2024), 2024, pp. 97-104

https://doi.org/10.4467/25440500RBN.24.007.21171

The article concerns the issue of transferring the ashes of Adam Mickiewicz, a great Polish Romantic poet hailed as the National Bard, from the cemetery in Montmorency to Kraków, from the perspective of Józef Ignacy Kraszewski and Władysław Mickiewicz, the poet’s eldest son. The basis for this is the correspondence exchanged between the two, hitherto unpublished and little-known, preserved in two manuscript collections in the Jagiellonian Library with the signatures: 6520 (letters from Wł. Mickiewicz to J.I. Kraszewski) and Przyb. 101/65 (letters from J.I. Kraszewski to Wł. Mickiewicz).

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Jan Narkiewicz Jodko (1852–ok. 1920). Zapomniany podróżnik, miłośnik sztuki i hodowca

Joachim Śliwa

The Annual of the Scientific Library of the PAAS and the PAS in Cracow, LXIX (2024), 2024, pp. 105-118

https://doi.org/10.4467/25440500RBN.24.008.21172

In the late years of the 19th century, Jan Narkiewicz Jodko embarked on several sea journeys to explore the ports and monuments of the eastern shores of the Mediterranean. He published his impressions of one of such voyage, made at the turn of 1897/1898, as From the East (Warsaw 1899). His itinerary led from Alexandria to Constantinople. On the way, he visited Jaffa, Beirut and Tripoli sailing through the so-called Archipelago to Piraeus and on towards the Turkish coast, to finally arrive at his destination via the Dardanelles and the Sea of Marmara, with a stopover in Smyrna. In his publication, Narkiewicz-Jodko sought to shed light on the contemporary political situation in the Middle East and inform his readers on some artistic events. Among other things, his account was one of the first to familiarise the Polish reader with Turkish archaeological discoveries at the el-Ayaa necropolis near Sidon; he had an opportunity to see the marble sarcophagi discovered there at the Imperial Museum in Istanbul. Narkiewicz Jodko also described an important Polish trace in Smyrna: the tomb of General Ludwik Michał Pac (1780–1835), who had died there unexpectedly years before. In his mansion in Bębnówka Wielka, Narkiewicz-Jodko gathered a sizeable collection of works of art and memorabilia, including those from his travels. Moreover, Narkiewicz Jodko was known in his country for introducing there directly from Switzerland a new, more productive cattle breed. Along with other mansions in Podolia and Wolhynia, the residence at Bębnówka Wielka and the whole estate were completely devastated and looted in 1914–1917.

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Listy Tadeusza Smoleńskiego i Stefana Waszyńskiego do Bolesława Ulanowskiego ze zbiorów Biblioteki Naukowej PAU i PAN w Krakowie

Bernadeta Wilk

The Annual of the Scientific Library of the PAAS and the PAS in Cracow, LXIX (2024), 2024, pp. 119-134

https://doi.org/10.4467/25440500RBN.24.009.21173

The subject of this article is documentary editing of the correspondence of two young ancient history researchers – Tadeusz Smoleński (1884–1909), a historian and Egyptologist, and Stefan Waszyński (1872–1908), a historian and papyrologist, to Bolesław Ulanowski (1860–1919), the Secretary General of the Academy of Art and Sciences, who directed the scholarship programme of the Academy and who kept cordial relationship with the scholars. While studying archaeology and Egyptian philology in Cairo, Tadeusz Smoleński in the years 1905–1908 received from the Academy’s board a scholarship from Malwina Jankowska’s legacy in the amount of 600 Austrian Kronen per year. Stefan Waszyński, the private docent of the ancient history at the Jagellonian University, conducted research on the judiciary as well as leasing and renting in antiquity. In the years 1906–1908 was the scholar of the Wiktor Osławski Foundation and went on a study trip to Germany, France, England, Italy and Egypt. The original versions of the letters are stored in the Special Collections of the Scientific Library of the PAAS and the PAS in Cracow, manuscript ref. no. 2402, vol. 3.

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Japonica w archiwaliach po Bronisławie Piłsudskim w Bibliotece Naukowej PAU i PAN w Krakowie (11). Korespondencja w sprawie posady nauczyciela dla Aleksandra Aleksiejewskiego

Alfred F. Majewicz

The Annual of the Scientific Library of the PAAS and the PAS in Cracow, LXIX (2024), 2024, pp. 135-150

https://doi.org/10.4467/25440500RBN.24.010.21174

The eleventh installment of the series introducing Japanese documents preserved with Bronisław Piłsudski’s archives in the Scientific Library of the PAAS and the PAS in Cracow introduces manuscript photocopies, transcripts, and translation into Polish of two pieces of correspondence from Tokyo addressed to Bronisław Piłsudski in Nagasaki: (1) a post card in German (handwriting today hardly legible even for a majority of native speakers) sent by Tokijirō Katō, a physician and socialist politician, and (2) a letter in English sent by Ms. Kiyo(ko) Endō, a feminist associated with the “New Woman” (atarashii onna) movement and the feminist magazine Seitō ‘Bluestockings’ – both regarding help in finding a Russian-language teaching position in the Tokyo region for Aleksandr Alekseyevskiy (1876–1958), a secondary-school teacher of logic, philosophy, psychology, as well as (probably?) Russian literature, journalist, and a local (Blagoveshchensk, Amur Oblast’-turned “Republic”, Irkutsk) politician, arrested by Bolsheviks for “counterrevolutionary activities”, later an exile in Japan (for a short period – evidently the position seeking efforts failed), and France (1920–1958, killed in a Paris street accident). The material includes also some not readily available biographical information and a brief note on one more letter, from a College in Yokohama, regarding the same matter, preserved in the Library.

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Udział Polonii w Powszechnej Wystawie Krajowej we Lwowie w 1894 r

Krzysztof Ziomek

The Annual of the Scientific Library of the PAAS and the PAS in Cracow, LXIX (2024), 2024, pp. 151-190

https://doi.org/10.4467/25440500RBN.24.011.21175

Since the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London, universal exhibitions have been held on a regular basis around the world to showcase nations’ cultural, industrial, and agricultural achievements. In Galicia, too, land exhibitions were held to highlight regional achievements. The exhibition held in Lwów in 1894 played an extraordinary role for two reasons: 1) it was supposed to refute the allegations made by Stanisław Szczepanowski in famous polemical book Nędza Galicyi..., published in 1888 and depicting Galicia as a land of extreme poverty; 2) it was the centenary of the Kościuszko Uprising, regarded as the important insurection in Polish history. Due to the significant anniversary of the national history, the event was transformed into an exhibition not only of Galicia, but of the entire Polish nation, with contributions from other Polish lands and the Polish diaspora. The Brazilian diaspora was unable to participate in the exhibition due to the civil war, known in Brazillian historiography as the Federalist Revolution, which erupted in 1893 and derailed their plans. The event, however, was supported by the diasporas of England, France, Switzerland, and, most notably, the United States, which even managed to construct the exhibition pavilion. The diaspora sent samples of their agricultural, industrial, and craftman’s products; women’s needlework; minerals and gold nuggets; ethnical association uniforms; photographs, images, and models of churches; posters and photographs of spectacles; volumes of ethnic newspapers; and essays written by ethnic school students. The separate exhibition pavilion and numerous sent specimens represent the diaspora’s developing national self-identification and struggles to contribute to the life of their country of origin.

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Historya Szkoły Miejskiej przy Kościele Akademickim S° Floriana na Kleparzu w Krakowie w roku 1187 założonej – zapoznana kronika szkolna

Szymon K. Kordylewski, Ewa Śnieżyńska-Stolot

The Annual of the Scientific Library of the PAAS and the PAS in Cracow, LXIX (2024), 2024, pp. 191-228

https://doi.org/10.4467/25440500RBN.24.012.21176

This article discusses the underrated and overlooked chronicle called The History of City School Near Academic Church of St. Fliorian…, which was preserved in the Primary School nr 7 in Kraków on 8 Spasowskiego St. and found years ago in the school’s collection by Szymon K. Kordylewski. Article is divided into: Introduction, The history of the parochial school of St. Florian, The iconography of the parochial school of St. Florian, The structure of the parochial school of St. Florian, The curriculum of the parochial school of St. Florian, The teachers, The teacher’s salaries, The students, The pupils, The important events from the school’s life and various initiatives. It contains an index of the teachers and students (in selection) as well as illustrations and photographs from family collections, since the ancestors of the authors of the article were teachers who also directed the school. The author of The History of the City School… is Tomasz Rudnicki, the teacher directing the school of St. Florian, who also transcribed a number of documents regarding the school and its teachers and pupils. The text was created between 1870 and 1871 commanded by the Governor’s Commission [sic!] from January 2, 1864, announced in the School Circular. In the years 1873–1900 The History of the City School… was being supplemented on an ongoing basis on blank cards (p. 31–62, 91–109) by eight different people, among whom it was possible to identify, besides that of Tomasz Rudnicki (died 1882), the handwriting of the subsequent school principals: Aleksander Pająk (1834–1899) and Karol Drozdowski (1855–1923). The manuscript, presumably in 1900, was bound in leather in the bookbinding workshop of R.D. Horowitz in Kraków, with embossed, gold-plated inscription: The History of the School near St. Florian in Kleparz in Kraków. This manuscript is an important source for the history of primary schools in Kraków during the period of partitions as well as the history of education and the teacher’s position.

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Nabytki rękopiśmienne w Bibliotece Naukowej PAU i PAN w Krakowie w latach 2019–2023

Marcin K. Klemenski

The Annual of the Scientific Library of the PAAS and the PAS in Cracow, LXIX (2024), 2024, pp. 229-236

https://doi.org/10.4467/25440500RBN.24.013.21177

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