%0 Journal Article
%T Everyday Life in the Things of the Late Emilia Majerowa, Neé Friedlein. A Posthumous Inventory Dated 1842
%A Danowska, Ewa
%J The Annual of the Scientific Library of the PAAS and the PAS in Cracow
%V 2019
%R 10.4467/25440500RBN.19.004.14147
%N LXIV (2019)
%P 53-86
%K Cracow, XIX c., Emilia Majerowa, posthumous inventory, edition
%@ 1642-2503
%D 2019
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/rbn-pau-pan/article/codziennosc-w-rzeczach-sp-emilii-z-friedleinow-majerowej-inwentarz-posmiertny-z-1842-r
%X 
	The manuscript collections of the Scientific Library of the PAAS and the PAS in Cracow (manuscript 3906) include an inventory prepared after the death of Emilia Majerowa, neé Friedlein, who died in Cracow in 1842. Her husband was Wojciech, a lawyer, and her brother-in-law was Józef Majer, the president of the Academy of Arts and Sciences. The inventory of movables was drawn up after their owner’s death; their evaluation played an important role in inheritance proceedings. The reliability of such a document is not questionable. Today it provides information about the material culture of the epoch and social class concerned – in this case, a wealthy intellectual house from the times of the Free City of Cracow. The posthumous inventory of Emilia Majerowa’s property is quite large, containing thoroughly described and evaluated home equipment, clothes, jewellery, a large library for the standards of those times, and financial documents. The edition of the inventory was preceded by a preface with facts about the Majer family, as well as information concerning the characteristics of the posthumous inventory as a legal document. The paper ends with a glossary of Old Polish terms that were still used at that time and are a characteristic part of the 19th-century vocabulary.