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Title:

Private Book Collections Preserved in the Library of the Kielce Chapter House (Fifteenth- to Eighteenth Century)

List of journals:

Biuletyn Biblioteki Jagiellońskiej (1949- )

Creator:

Kwaśniewski, Andrzej

Place of publication/creation:

Kraków

Date:

2012

Abstract:

This article is based on provenance research done on the historical library of the Kielce chapter house. This research has allowed to prepare a list of priests who owned book collections which were subsequently bequeathed to the chapter library. Particular books were matched with their owners and thus catalogues of private libraries came into existence. In some cases these “catalogues”contain only one or two printed books. The private libraries stored in the chapter library contain monuments of printing since the fifteenth century. The priests who owned these bookswere either members of the chapter house or curates of the Kielce collegiate church in the period from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. The members of the chapter house as well as the curates owned printed books connected with their sacerdotal activity, such as collections of sermons, handbooks for priests or liturgical books. Some of them owned also works of the Fathersof the Church as well as biblical, theological and legal prints. The contents of the private book collections cast light on the interests and the theological culture of the environment of the Kielce chapter.

Subject and Keywords:

Kielce Chapter House library ; private book collections ; provenance studies ; clergy ; theological culture ; theology ; law ; Bible ; priesthood

Rights:

Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0

Location of original document:

Biblioteka Jagiellońska

Resource Type:

article

Main title:

Biuletyn Biblioteki Jagiellońskiej. R. 62, 2012

Format:

application/pdf

Sponsorship:

Biblioteka Jagiellońska

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