Lwowska Biblioteka Franciszkańska i jej dzieje
The Franciscan Library in Lviv and Its History

Summary/Abstract: The beginnings of the Franciscan library in Lviv date back to the Middle Ages. Settled in the monastery of St. Francis. From the very beginning, the Franciscans took care of its development. By buying books, even more often receiving them as gifts from benefactors or confreres, they kept multiplying it. She shared the fate of the monastery: its fire in 1733, and later its dissolution by the Austrian government. After the dissolution of the monastery, together with her brothers, it found itself in a new convent: the Immaculate Conception of Mary, sharing its fate again. Together with the monastery in 1833 it was not burned down. Reconstructed, it was interrupted until the Franciscans were expelled from Lwów by the Soviet authorities (April 26, 1946). Transferred to Poland, it still exists in the Franciscan Library (OFMConv) in Kraków and in the libraries of other monasteries in the province.

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