Czasopisma w księgozbiorze domowym Stanisława Wyspiańskiego (1869–1907)
MAGAZINES IN THE HOME LIBRARY OF STANIS£AW WYSPIAŃSKI (1869–1907)

Summary/Abstract: The home library is understood as an organized collection of documents, mainly books, newspapers and magazines within the building which is the place of residence. It is referred to only when it develops to such an extent that it is able to systematically fulfil specific purposes that its owner has in mind. And most of all that it involves certain financial resources to multiply it and is regarded as a specific form of passion and sometimes profession (when a fund is created to develop it, as happened in the case of the collections of Józef Maksymilian Ossoliński). However, it differs from book collections in libraries as institutions because usually it is not built and made available outside the family. Collecting of home book libraries became a mass activity in Poland in the 19th century. Mainly intellectuals and noblemen collected them. An equally valuable collection was owned by Stanisław Wyspiański. We can see it on the basis of the study by A. Grucy “Księgozbiór Stanisława Wyspiańskiego” (The library of Stanisław Wyspianski). The precious acquisitions in this collection were scientific yearbooks and magazines (in French and German) devoted mainly to art and literature. The collected magazines equally with books constituted not only a symbol of social status but also a tool for performing the writer’s mission. They were becoming an integrating factor regardless of the dividing borders of the Polish partition. Now the home library of the writer located in the National Museum in Cracow is an invaluable part of the national culture

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