Notae Numismaticae - Zapiski Numizmatyczne (12.2017)

Tom XII

Kraków 2017

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KATARZYNA PODNIESIŃSKA
The National Museum in Krakow

The Bookplates of Polish Coin and Medal
Collecting Connoisseurs in the Collection
of the National Museum in Krakow. Libraries
and Numismatic Collections in the 18th Century

ABSTRACT: The article presents the bookplates (also known as ex libris),
currently in the collection of the National Museum in Krakow, which accompany
the books of Polish coin and medal collecting connoisseurs from the 18* Century.
These bookplates include the supralibros1 of King Stanislaus II Augustus, the owner
of the largest numismatic collection in Poland at that time, as well as the ex libris
belonging to members of his closest circle: those of Jan Chrzciciel Albertrandi,
the royal librarian, and Pius Kiciński, the head of the king’s political cabinet.
Two of the largest 1 S^-century numismatic collections among the nobility of
the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth were the collection of Marshai Stanislaw
Lubomirski and that of the House of Radziwiłł (Nesvizh branch). The article
discusses the bookplates of the House of Lubomirski and those of the Radziwiłł
family (Karol Stanisław “Panie Kochanku” Radziwiłła library at Nesvizh Castle).
Smaller numismatic collections, but also bookplates, were held by Andrzej Stanisław
Załuski and Józef Andrzej Załuski, the founders of a famous library; Michał Sołtyk;
and Jerzy Wandalin Mniszech.
The author also mentions the bookplates of the Gdańsk burghers Daniel Gralath
and Jan Jakub Salomon; the bookplates of Michał Groll and those of Aleksander
Chodkiewicz, both of whom were representatives of the Warsaw cultural elite; and
the bookplates of the Jagiellonian University professors Hugo Kołłątaj and Idzi
Przybylski.

1 Although supralibros do not indicate provenance in exactly the same way that bookplates do, they are
closely related to the latter. For this reason, supralibros are discussed in the present text as well.

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