Accession index of Manuscripts Department

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Relatively poorly examined is collection of manuscripts originated from different Silesian and Upper Lausitz libraries (so called restricted collections, accession), which has been included into WUL’s collections after the Second World War.

In the most cases, only short descriptions in register type are available. They are written in four volumes of Accession that include entries since 1947 till present day. In use there is also paper name-subject index to Accession’s collection in an alphabetical order, but it bases only on entries in accession books.

When using electronic version of accession index one has to remember, that when searching for codex by its call number, number after slash must consists of four digits. In cases, when it is shorter, it should be supplemented by digit “0”, e.g. Akc 1949/0005.

When searching via “subject” or “description”, first the beginning letter of searched term should be chosen, and then search engine can be used.

Accession collection, besides of Library of Grammar School in Zgorzelec, also called Milich’s Library, doesn’t have any completed nor partial modern catalog. Only part of manuscripts from that collection (mostly from middle ages) has older printed catalogs, like materials from church of Sts. Peter and Paul from Legnica or Upper Lausitz Scientific Society from Zgorzelec.

The only collection from Restricted collections that has modern catalog description is The Milich’s Library . Its modern manuscripts were processed in 1990 by Leon Górecki, and manuscripts from middle ages (planned for three volumes) were cataloged in two volume publication (published in 1998 and 2004):

• Katalog rękopisów obejmujący sygnatury 6268-6790 : dawny zbiór Biblioteki J. G. Milicha w Zgorzelcu : rękopisy nowożytne / Leon Górecki. Wrocław, 1990

• Catalogus codicum medii aevi manuscriptorum qui in Bibliotheca Universitatis Wratislaviensis asservantur signa 6055 - 6124 comprehendens : (Codices Milichiani, vol. 1) / composuerunt Stanisław Kądzielski et Wojciech Mrozowicz, quibus auxilium tulerunt Jan Gromadzki, Jan Przytulski et Hanna Strzelecka-Ascher ; Bibliotheca Universitatis Wratislaviensis. Wratislaviae, 1998

• Catalogus codicum medii aevi manuscriptorum qui in Bibliotheca Universitatis Wratislaviensis asservantur signa 6125 - 6181 comprehendens : (Codices Milichiani, vol. 2) / composuerunt Stanisław Kądzielski et Jan Przytulski, quibus auxilium tulerunt Wojciech Mrozowicz et Hanna Strzelecka-Ascher ; Bibliotheca Universitatis Wratislaviensis. Wratislaviae, 2004

That condition is consequence of lack of possibility to determine origin of part of collection as well as its provenience and thematic variety; lack of knowledge about exact content of collection and fact, that most of collection originated from 16^th to 19^th centuries, when manuscript lost its prime role as source- and cultural knowledge for researchers.