Inventory of German Manuscripts from the Special Collections at the University of Warsaw Library

This is a collaborative project involving students, doctoral candidates, scholars, and researchers from the University of Warsaw and Saarland University, conducted in collaboration with the Department of Special Collections at the University of Warsaw Library. The aim is to provide a general description of yet uncatalogued German manuscripts from the Special Collection at the University of Warsaw Library. These manuscripts, acquired through donations or purchases after 1945, currently comprise approximately 500 items. Before the war, they were part of various state and private collections, including: the Library of the Evangelical-Augsburg Holy Trinity Church in Kamienna Góra, Silesia (Wallenberg-Fenderlinsche Bibliothek zu Landeshut) – 17th-19th century manuscripts primarily concerning Kamienna Góra, its residents, and institutions, along with German documents on parchment; the library of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Gdańsk, secured in Sobowidz near Gdańsk – 15th-19th century manuscripts related to Gdańsk and Pomerania; the collection of the Princes Carolath-Beuthen in Carolath (Siedlisko), Silesia – fragments of the Majorat Library, a private ducal library, and a family archive containing legal, historical, and miscellaneous manuscripts from the 16th-19th centuries; the collection of the Schaffgotsch family from Cieplice; the library of the Princes of Hesse-Darmstadt; other smaller collections and individual manuscripts acquired through donations or acquisitions. The database will be made available on the project’s website:

http://manuscripta.wn.uw.edu.pl.

Project supervisors: Anna Just i Agnieszka Fabiańska