Rękopiśmienne wykazy malarstwa i grafiki zebrane przez Johanna Gustava Gottlieba Büschinga i przechowywane w Bibliotece Uniwersyteckiej we Wrocławiu. Część 1
Hand-written lists of paintings and prints compiled by Johann Gustav Gottlieb Büsching and kept in the Wrocław University Library. Part 1

Summary/Abstract: The present source edition focuses on records concerning the painting collection from the Royal Museum of Art and Antiquities in Wrocław brought together in one bound volume by Johann Gustav Gottlieb Büsching (1783–1829), currently kept in the Manuscript Department of the Wrocław University Library and entitled Büsching. Verzeichnisse die Gemalde Sammlung betreffend (no. Akc. 1948/862). The documents were compiled in 1811–1822 (with some additions from 1929) and concern a collection of paintings kept in the university library in Wrocław, which at that time was located in the former Monastery of Canons Regular of St. Augustine on the Sand Island. The paintings were part of the royal collection and came mainly from Silesian monasteries dissolved by the edict of the King of Prussia, Frederick William III, of 30 October 1810. The records begin with a list of paintings from the Monastery of Canons Regular of St. Augustine, where many works of the Silesian Baroque master Michael Leopold Willmann (1630–1706) were inventoried and priced. Another document originated during the dissolution of the Cistercian Abbey of Krzeszów and comprises a list of copperplates made mainly after Willmann’s drawings; they include the Krzeszów Passion. Another list is that of works from the valuable Baroque painting collection from the Cistercian Abbey of Lubiąż. The next leaf in the volume contains a list of works from the Cistercian Abbey of Jemielnica “yet to be sold at an auction”. Selection of paintings for galleries is well illustrated by Büsching’s hand-written notes in another document concerning a division of paintings from the Monastery of Canons Regular of St. Augustine into works to be displayed and works to be exchanged. This is followed by a list of paintings destined for an auction planned for 27 April 1814. The records concerning painting galleries also include a list from the collection of the forest district inspector from Wrocław, Friedrich Georg Graβhoff. Next comes a list of paintings from 1821 signed by Johann Heinrich Christoph König, a Wrocław painter who was involved in the restoration of paintings from Silesian monasteries and destined for painting galleries.The transliteration published in the present volume is the first of two parts and encompasses the first 27 leaves. The other leaves from the volume (28–93) will be published in the eighth issue of Hereditas Monasteriorum.

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