Klejnoty i wyroby złotnicze w inwentarzu podskarbiego koronnego Mikołaja Szydłowieckiego z 1525 r.
Jewels and goldsmith’s products in the inventory of Mikołaj Szydłowiecki, Treasurer of the Crown, from 1525

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses a fragment of the source titled „Regestr a spysek wszythkich rzeczy panskich ktory regestr Jego M przy sobye chowacz ma y chowa, pysan Crac. A 1525 feria secunda post festum Nativitatis Marie Virginis“, i.e. movable property inventory belonging to Mikołaj Szydłowiecki of the Odrowąż coat of arms (ca. 1475-1532), the starosta of Olsztyn (from 1508) and Krzepice (from 1519), the castellan of Sandomierz (from 1515), and the treasurer Grand Crown Prince (1515-1532), one of the most trusted men of King Sigismund the Old. The analyzed inventory is a unique source, and Polish historiography does not have comparative material from this period in the form of a movable property inventory belonging to a person with a similar financial status and position in the state elite. The section of the inventory titled „Gold“ was analyzed, in which jewelry and other goldsmith’s items belonging to the treasurer were listed and, in some cases, described in more detail – chains, rings, buckles, pearls, gold-framed pictures and rosaries. Among Szydłowiecki’s jewels there are unique pieces, difficult to obtain, available only to a select few. His register confirmed his possession of items that had previously been known almost exclusively from royal inventories. Entries in the inventory also allow for arrangements regarding social relations, as they were received by the treasurer and given to others.

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