UNKNOWN BOOKS OF KING SIGISMUND AUGUSTUS IN THE CONGREGATION OF THE MISSION LIBRARY IN STRADOM
UNKNOWN BOOKS OF KING SIGISMUND AUGUSTUS IN THE CONGREGATION OF THE MISSION LIBRARY IN STRADOM

Summary/Abstract: In the Congregation of the Mission Library in Stradom, Kraków, two books have been found that used to belong to the famous library of the Polish king, Sigismund Augustus. The monograph on the King’s collection written by Alodia-Kawecka-Gryczowa contains a catalogue of all the books belonging to it that have been discovered so far. This article, however, extends Kawecka-Gryczowa’s catalogue by the addition of two books that have remained unknown until now. After the king’s death, part of his book collection went to the Jesuit college in Vilnius while the rest remained with queen Anna Jagiellon, who was her brother’s will executor. Both of the newly found volumes are medical prints which queen Anna gave as gifts to her doctors, Sylwester Roguski and Hieronim of Poznań. Like other volumes belonging to the Sigisimund Augustus collection, the books are bound in wood boards covered in brown leather, with the king’s supralibros on the upper cover and the ownership formula SIGISMUNDI AVGUSTI REGIS POLONIAE MOVMENTVM on the lower part of the cover.

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