height: 50.4 cm (19.8 in); width: 36.7 cm (14.4 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,50.4U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,36.7U174728
182 pp
Accession number
1176 (Puławy), 5.1.2 (Hermitage in St. Petersburg), 2 (Imperial Library)
Object history
16th century: transferred to Cardinal Andrew Bathory
1599: transferred to Jesuits Collegium in Sandomierz (Collegii Sandomirie Soc. Jesu, p. 1 and 118)
1773: transferred to Library of the Tarnowski family
1809: transferred to Czartoryski Library in Puławy (gift of Jan Tarnowski)
1831: transferred to Hermitage and Imperial Library in Saint Petersburg (confiscation)
1921: transferred to National Library in Warsaw (revindication)
October 1944: Burned deliberately by the Germans during the Planned destruction of Warsaw.[1]
Source/Photographer
"Catalogue of stolen and missing cultural achievements" / comp. Jan Świeczyński; Ośrodek Informacyjno-Koordynacyjny Ochrony Obiektów Muzealnych. Warsaw 1988 Editor: Wojciech Jaskulski, Piotr Ogrodzki.
This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse
This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.
You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States.
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/PDMCreative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0falsefalse
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain". This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details.
Notes
↑ Rebecca Knuth (2006). Burning books and leveling libraries: extremist violence and cultural destruction, p. 166. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN02-75990-07-9