PIEKARSKI Kazimierz, BIESIADECKI Franciszek - Materjały do dziejów Bibljoteki Zygmunta Augusta. Cracow 1924

PIEKARSKI Kazimierz, BIESIADECKI Franciszek - Materjały do dziejów Bibljoteki Zygmunta Augusta. Serja I. Kraków 1924.
S. 17, (1), VIII p. tabl. H: 30.5 cm.
Reprint from the 1st notebook of "Exlibris" embossed at the National Printing House in Cracow in studium numbered pieces. This no. 43 - Exlibris by Lech Kokociński.

The work of two prominent bibliophiles and researchers of old Polish printing, Kazimierz Piekarski (1893-1944) and Franciszek Biesiadecki (1869-1941), dedicated to the famous library of King Sigismund Augustus (1520-1572). The book collection became widely dispersed shortly after the king's death; the total volume of the royal library is also unknown to the end, although it is estimated at around 4,000 volumes. The only surviving catalog of the collection, written by the royal librarian of the time, Stanislaw Koszucki, dates from 1553 and documents only books on law (293 items in all).

The authors described 30 pieces, mainly from the collections of the Baworowski Library and the Jagiellonian Library, and partly from the Ossolineum, the Czartoryski Library and the Library of the National Museum in Cracow; they also described individual pieces found in several other libraries in the country.
Lit. Szelińska W., One more monumentum from the library of Sigismund Augustus [in: Rocznik Naukowo-Dydaktyczny. 1985, Z. 96].