Xiąszka ta: liczbę Rzymskich maiąca Papieży […], czyli Pontificium doctum […] Georga von Eggsa i jego kolejni właściciele
Xiąszka ta: liczbę Rzymskich maiąca Papieży […] [This book, containing the number of the Roman Popes [...]], i.e. Pontificium doctum […] of Georg von Eggs and its Subsequent Owners

Summary/Abstract: This article contains the description of a hand-written, rhymed acrostic from the Jagiellonian Library copy of an early printed book – Pontificium doctum by Georg Joachim von Eggs (1663–1755) – which was published in Cologne in 1718. One of the first owners of this print, Rev. Kazimierz Maciej Szaniawski – a parish priest in Rzezawa (in the Małopolska region of Poland) – wrote an autobiographical acrostic on the fly-leaf in 13-syllable verse, in which he hid his name and also included his own cursus honorum, i.e. a short history of his life up to 1759, when he was made a parish priest. The author of the article also tries to identify the owners of the print which contains the acrostic and to establish the sequence of ownership.

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