Jagiellonian Library
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Jagiellonian Library (Polish: Biblioteka Jagiellońska, popular nickname Jagiellonka) is the library of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and with almost 6.7 million volumes, one of the largest libraries in Poland, serving as a public library, university library and part of the Polish national library system.[2] It has a large collection of medieval manuscripts, for example the autograph of Copernicus' De Revolutionibus and Jan Długosz's Banderia Prutenorum, and a large collection of underground literature (so-called drugi obieg or samizdat) from the period of communist rule in Poland (1945–1989). The Jagiellonian also houses the Berlinka art collection, whose legal status is in dispute with Germany.[3]
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Jagiellonian Library | |
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Biblioteka Jagiellońska | |
50.0615°N 19.9236°E / 50.0615; 19.9236 | |
Location | Kraków, Poland |
Type | National library |
Established | 1364 (660 years ago) (1364) |
Collection | |
Size | 6,603,824[1] |
Access and use | |
Circulation | 600,198 in reading rooms and outside |
Other information | |
Director | Prof. dr hab. Zdzisław Pietrzyk |
Website | www |