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Country
  
Location
  
Opened
  
1939

Type
  
National library

Size
  
6,603,824

Phone
  
+48 12 633 09 03

Jagiellonian Library

Established
  
1364 (653 years ago) (1364)

Director
  
Prof. dr hab. Zdzisław Pietrzyk

Address
  
al. Mickiewicza 22, 30-001 Kraków, Poland

Hours
  
Open today · 9AM–4PMSaturday9AM–4PMSundayClosedMonday8:15AM–8:50PMTuesday8:15AM–8:50PMWednesday8:15AM–8:50PMThursday8:15AM–8:50PMFriday8:15AM–8:50PM

Circulation
  
600,198 in reading rooms and outside

Function
  
Public library, Academic library

Similar
  
National Library of Poland, National Museum - Kraków, Main Square - Kraków, Tatra Mountains, Kraków Old Town

Profiles

In krakow s collegium maius library


Jagiellonian Library (Polish: Biblioteka Jagiellońska, popular nickname Jagiellonka) is the library of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and with almost 6.7 million volumes, one of the biggest libraries in Poland, serving as a public library, university library and part of the Polish national library system. It has a large collection of medieval manuscripts, for example Copernicus' De Revolutionibus or Jan Długosz's Banderia Prutenorum, and a large collection of underground literature (so-called drugi obieg or samizdat) from the period of communist rule in Poland (1945-1989).

Contents

More controversially, the Jagiellonian houses the Berlinka art collection.

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Organization

The Deputy Directors of Administration and Construction, 19th and 20th Century Materials, and Special Collections oversee a staff of 283 employees in fourteen different library departments.

Collections

Jagiellonian Library is one of the largest and most famous libraries in Poland; over its history it has received many donations and inherited many private collections.

Its collection contains 1,503,178 volumes of monographs, 557,199 volumes of periodicals, 104,012 early printed books, 3,586 incunabula, 24,258 manuscripts, 12,819 maps, 35,105 music scores, and 77,336 microforms. Among its music scores are many of Mozart's original autographs.

Notable rare books owned by the library include:

  • 15th century copy of Bogurodzica
  • Jan DługoszBanderia Prutenorum
  • Balthasar Behem Codex
  • Paulus Paulirini de Praga – Liber viginti artium
  • Nicolaus Copernicus – manuscript of De revolutionibus, and printed editions
  • Rembrandt van Rijn – Faust
  • Frédéric ChopinScherzo (E-dur)
  • Stanisław MoniuszkoTrzeci śpiewnik domowy. Muzyka wokalna z towarzyszeniem fortepianu
  • Stanisław WyspiańskiWesele. Dramat w 3 aktach
  • Ignacy Jan PaderewskiStara Suita
  • In the 1990s several priceless books were stolen from the library, presumably in order to be sold in the West. In 1999 works of Galileo, Johannes Kepler and Basilius Bessarion were stolen; some were recovered from an auction in the German auction house Reiss&Sohn.

    History

    The beginning of the Jagiellonian Library is traditionally considered the same as that of the entire university (then known as Cracow Academy) - in the year 1364; however instead of having one central library it had several smaller branches at buildings of various departments (the largest collection was in Collegium Maius, where works related to theology and liberal arts were kept). After 1775, during the reforms of Komisja Edukacji Narodowej, which established the first Ministry of Education in the world, various small libraries of the University were formally centralized into one public collection in Collegium Maius. During the partitions of Poland, the library continued to grow thanks to the support of such people as Jerzy Samuel Bandtkie, Karol Józef Teofil Estreicher and Karol Estreicher. Its collections were made public in 1812. Since 1932, it has had the right to receive a copy of any book issued by Polish publishers within Poland. In 1940, the library finally obtained a new building of its own. During the Second World War, library workers cooperated with underground universities. Since the 1990s, the library's collection is increasingly digital.

    Building

    The current building of the library located at Al. Mickiewicza 22 was constructed in the years 1931-1939 and expanded twice, in the years 1961-1963 and 1995-2001.

    References

    Jagiellonian Library Wikipedia


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