Rękopiśmienne wykazy malarstwa i grafiki zebrane przez Johanna Gustava Gottlieba Büschinga i przechowywane w Bibliotece Uniwersyteckiej we Wrocławiu. Część 2
Hand-written lists of paintings and prints compiled by Johann Gustav Gottlieb Büsching and kept in the Wrocław University Library. Part 2

Summary/Abstract: The first part of transliterations of records concerning the painting collection from the Royal Museum of Art and Antiquities in Wrocław, brought together in one bound volume by Johann Gustav Gottlieb Busching (1783–1829) and currently kept in the Manuscript Department of the Wrocław University Library as Busching. Verzeichnisse die Gemalde Sammlung betreffend (no. Akc. 1948/862), was published in the previous volume of “Hereditas Monasteriorum”. We are now publishing the second and final part encompassing the remaining leaves from the bound volume, which originated in 1811–1822 (with additions from 1929). The documents concern a collection of paintings kept in the University Library in Wrocław, which at that time was located in the former Monastery of Canons Regular of St. Augustine on the Sand Island. The paintings were part of the royal collection and came mainly from Silesian monasteries dissolved by the edict of the King of Prussia, Frederick William III, of 30 October 1810. Painting was entrusted to Busching, who added works selected during the secularisation to the painting gallery opened at the university on 29 June 1815. This was the first museum in Wrocław regularly making its collections available to the public once a week. The exhibition, encompassing several hundred paintings, was divided by Busching into three main thematic parts: Medieval and Renaissance painting from German-speaking countries, European painting, and works of the Silesian Baroque master Michael Leopold Willmann (1630–1706). The most extensive of the records in the volume are two inventories of paintings from the Royal Museum of Art and Antiquities in Wrocław of 22 March and 19 October 1821. The following leaves contain tables, correlated with the inventories, which sum up the decision to reduce the painting gallery holdings in 1821. Another table in the volume contains a price list of the various painting themes. The volume ends with a list containing information about the origin of the works exhibited in the gallery.

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