INWENTARZ KSIĘGOZBIORU BISKUPA DIECEZJI LUBELSKIEJ MATEUSZA WOJAKOWSKIEGO (1775-1845) W ŚWIETLE AKT NOTARIALNYCH
AN INVENTORY OF THE BOOK COLLECTION BELONGING TO THE BISHOP OF THE LUBLIN DIOCESE, MATEUSZ WOJAKOWSKI (1775-1845) IN THE LIGHT OF NOTARIAL RECORDS

Summary/Abstract: The article presents an inventory of the book collection owned by the bishop of the Lublin diocese, Mateusz Wojakowski (1775-1845). The aim of the article is to reconstruct the book collection, i.e., to make the edition of the inventory available to recipients along with an initial analysis of the library’s content. The inventory of the book collection can be found in a notarial register from 1845, which is part of „Records of Seraph Konwicki, a notary of the city of Lublin” kept in the State Archives in Lublin. In the source text, editing prin-ciples were applied in accordance with the Publishing Instructions for historical sources from the 16th to 19th century. Additionally, bibliographic data was supplemented and enriched, because the source information about the copies of books owned by the clergyman was incomplete, as they were originally used only for inheritance purposes. The full title, author’s name, place and year of publication were established on the basis of available bibliographies and libra-ry catalogues. The findings will allow for a more comprehensive analysis of the contents of the bishop’s home library. The inventory of 220 items lists a total of 255 titles of works in 296 volumes. The collected books were mainly in Polish, and additionally also in Latin, French and German. The clergyman’s home book collection was of universal character. It included books and magazines in various fields: general, law, education, philosophy, history, geography, dictionaries, natural and applied sciences, and belles-lettres. Religious prints constituted an important part, including liturgical books, sermons, catechisms, prayer books, the Bible, and meditations. The inventory of the book collection of Bishop Wojakowski - a figure distinguished not only in the field of pastoral but also civic activity - has remained unknown and unused in literature so far. It is also an example inventory of a 19th-century book collection belonging to a clergyman.

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