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Editor's Note
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Editors Notę
Editors Notę
The fifth volume of the new series of Papers of the National Museum in Kraków, unlike its
predecessors, does not comprise works centred around one leading theme, although some of
the texts contained therein follow up on topics which have been discussed before. Let us recall
that the fourth volume was dedicated to the history and collections of the Princes Czartoryski
Museum and Library. The rich resources of the Archives and Manuscripts Department were
then objects of studies by Janusz S. Nowak and Janusz Pezda, whose articles are also presented
in this volume. This time, Nowak analyses the written sources preserved in the Princes Czarto-
ryski Library arguing - contrary to opinions present in the literaturę on the subject - that glass
was already being manufactured on the Ukrainian estates belonging to the Sieniawski, Czar-
toryski and Tarło families in the 1720s. This indirectly indicates the potential role of economic
archives - an increasingly freąuently used source of łmowledge about the culture of everyday
life, but also about the history of artistic creativity. Pezdas text reveals an unknown episode in
the history of Raphaels Portrait of a Young Man. We learn that in the years 1850-1852, the fa-
mous painting remained in London and Berlin, where attempts were madę to sell it, due to
the difficult financial situation of the Czartoryskis. Because these efforts proved unsuccessful,
the painting returned to the Hotel Lambert, from where it was transported to Kraków in No-
vember 1882. It remained there until it went missing during World War II. Another masterpiece
from the Czartoryski family s collection, which has already been mentioned in the previous
volume of Papers, is the Pontifical of Erazm Ciołek. The present publication includes a valuable
new contribution to this subject by a classical philologist. Ałła Brzozowska interprets the politi-
cal speeches of the bishop, which paint a picture of an ideał ruler, referring in equal measure
to the recipients of the addresses (Emperor Maximilian I, and the popes Alexander VI, Julius
II and Leo X) and those on whose behalf he spoke: the ruling house of Poland and Lithuania.
Ciołeks polemical orations represented the Polish-Lithuanian reason of State in the discourse
with the propaganda, which was ill-disposed towards the Jagiellonian dynasty and which was
often listened to in the courts of Europę. The author s suggestion that the theme of the ideał
ruler is also reflected in the iconography of the Pontifical, custom-made for the bishop, seems
worthy of consideration by art historians. It is worth noting that the objective here is to examine
the biography and literary heritage of the bishop of Płock, which ought to be of particular inter-
est especially in light of work in the Bishop Erazm Ciołek Pałace - the newly opened branch of
the National Museum in Kraków.
The article by Katarzyna Pisarek takes us to one of the oldest settlements in the Małopolska
(Lesser Poland) region, namely to Wąwolnica on the Bystra River (at present in the Lublin
region). The author managed to correct the chronology of the municipal seal imprints, dat-
ing them to 1424. The collection of silver spoons (17th - 18th centuries) from the National
Museum in Kraków is the theme of Alicja Kilijańskas article, which constitutes a valuable
follow-up and addition to Bronisława Marekowskas research published sixty years earlier.
Editors Notę
Editors Notę
The fifth volume of the new series of Papers of the National Museum in Kraków, unlike its
predecessors, does not comprise works centred around one leading theme, although some of
the texts contained therein follow up on topics which have been discussed before. Let us recall
that the fourth volume was dedicated to the history and collections of the Princes Czartoryski
Museum and Library. The rich resources of the Archives and Manuscripts Department were
then objects of studies by Janusz S. Nowak and Janusz Pezda, whose articles are also presented
in this volume. This time, Nowak analyses the written sources preserved in the Princes Czarto-
ryski Library arguing - contrary to opinions present in the literaturę on the subject - that glass
was already being manufactured on the Ukrainian estates belonging to the Sieniawski, Czar-
toryski and Tarło families in the 1720s. This indirectly indicates the potential role of economic
archives - an increasingly freąuently used source of łmowledge about the culture of everyday
life, but also about the history of artistic creativity. Pezdas text reveals an unknown episode in
the history of Raphaels Portrait of a Young Man. We learn that in the years 1850-1852, the fa-
mous painting remained in London and Berlin, where attempts were madę to sell it, due to
the difficult financial situation of the Czartoryskis. Because these efforts proved unsuccessful,
the painting returned to the Hotel Lambert, from where it was transported to Kraków in No-
vember 1882. It remained there until it went missing during World War II. Another masterpiece
from the Czartoryski family s collection, which has already been mentioned in the previous
volume of Papers, is the Pontifical of Erazm Ciołek. The present publication includes a valuable
new contribution to this subject by a classical philologist. Ałła Brzozowska interprets the politi-
cal speeches of the bishop, which paint a picture of an ideał ruler, referring in equal measure
to the recipients of the addresses (Emperor Maximilian I, and the popes Alexander VI, Julius
II and Leo X) and those on whose behalf he spoke: the ruling house of Poland and Lithuania.
Ciołeks polemical orations represented the Polish-Lithuanian reason of State in the discourse
with the propaganda, which was ill-disposed towards the Jagiellonian dynasty and which was
often listened to in the courts of Europę. The author s suggestion that the theme of the ideał
ruler is also reflected in the iconography of the Pontifical, custom-made for the bishop, seems
worthy of consideration by art historians. It is worth noting that the objective here is to examine
the biography and literary heritage of the bishop of Płock, which ought to be of particular inter-
est especially in light of work in the Bishop Erazm Ciołek Pałace - the newly opened branch of
the National Museum in Kraków.
The article by Katarzyna Pisarek takes us to one of the oldest settlements in the Małopolska
(Lesser Poland) region, namely to Wąwolnica on the Bystra River (at present in the Lublin
region). The author managed to correct the chronology of the municipal seal imprints, dat-
ing them to 1424. The collection of silver spoons (17th - 18th centuries) from the National
Museum in Kraków is the theme of Alicja Kilijańskas article, which constitutes a valuable
follow-up and addition to Bronisława Marekowskas research published sixty years earlier.