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Prilog izučavanju halidijskog ogranka nakšibendijskog tarikata u Sarajevu
The author uses relevant sources and, until now, unknown, original documents, to present to our scientific and cultural audience, for the first time, new information on the ceration and development of the Khalidi branch of the Naqshbandi tariqa of Sarajevo and its tight links with the Ǧabal Abī Qubays Zaviyah of Mecca. The paper focuses on seven letters by two shaykhs of the aforementioned zaviyah – Shaykh Sulaymān ibn Ḥasan Zuhdī and his son ‘Alī Riḍā, sent to Hajji Mustafa-aga Sudžuka of Sarajevo. Shaykh Sulaymān Zuhdī managed the zaviyah in the period of 1271/1854-55 - 1308/1890-91, and his son ‘Alī Riḍā from 1315/1897-98 until it was closed, in the second half of the 20th century. These two pronounced hundreds of shaykhs, through which the Khalidi branch of the Naqshibandi tariqa spread across the Islamic world; from Indonesia in the East to Morocco in the West; from Bosnia in the north to Sudan and Zanzibar in the South. By analyzing the aforementioned letters and identifying the persons mentioned in it, the author discovers the Bosniac heritage of Shaykh Sulaymān Zuhdī and the family, from which he, most likely originates.
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Badly neglected under Communism, the representation of contemporary art in museums over East-Central Europe has markedly improved since the fall of the Iron Curtain. With the number of independent new states multiplied in this region during the past quarter-century, there is today a variety of national canonising institutions of contemporary art. However, the professional level of these collections and their presentation, either as part of large monolithic national art galleries or in separate museums of contemporary art, show vast differences. This paper looks in a comparative approach at the diverging motifs, ranging from international politics to local urban development, and the various solutions that the nearly two dozen countries between the Baltic region and the Balkans have adopted for placing contemporary art in old or new museums.
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The essay contains reflections on the ways of using erudite linguistics, a young discipline created by me, in the study of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish Northeastern Borderlands. Correlation of linguistic and extralinguistic conclusions (culture, history, art, gemology) permits us to look in a new way at many facts of the Polish Northeastern Borderlands that linguists had not been interested in before, such as old Polish Northeastern Borderlands museum artifacts, jewelry of Grand Duchy of Lithuania, icon of Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn, cult of the dead in the Polish Northeastern Borderlands, architecture of the old Vilnius, manor house in Czombrów – the prototype of Soplicowo (the village in Pan Tadeusz epic poem), descriptions of Henryk Poddębski’s daguerreotype images, Vilnius identity of Henryk Szylkin or symbolic-figurative nicknames of Vilnius.
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This paper discusses how 3D digitization of cultural properties and modern interactive methods can help museums disseminate, educate and share the rich history, culture and civilization of museums’ collection more effectively than traditional methods which used visual boards.
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In the digital age we take for granted all the good things that have contributed to this advancement. We forget the gradual steps taken by mankind. During The Enlightenment, the phenomenon of commonplace books and the act of reading has a life of its own, especially in Georgian England. David Allan's volume, ”Commonplace Books and Reading in Georgian England”, is a compulsory study for anyone who wishes to understand the contribution of unknown readers to the bigger picture of the epoch. At the same time, the book dares to retheorize the foundation of the first manifestations of individual reading as a mass(ive) phenomenon. Nowadays, we put little excerpts on social media as a way to represent us; this parallels what our predecessors used to do with commonplace books. Our contemporary ease to delve into megabytes of information and to let the knowledge flourish started with the moment of another century when more peers of a generation enjoyed reading and let the transformative power of books simply act upon them.
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Review of: Nanouska Myrberg Burström, Gitte Tarnow Ingvardson, eds., Divina Moneta: Coins in Religion and Ritual, London-New York, Routledge, 2018, XVIII + 257 p. ISBN 978-1-4724-8592-2
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Krakow Museum of Science and Industry was in operation since 1868. For just under a century of its activity, it promoted science and contributed to crafts. In 1908, bookbinders’ cyclic education started here. It took place in the model Bookbinding Workshop. The activities of the workshop as well as the program and methods of courses determined the quality of the craftsmanship on Polish soil. This article discusses the workshop’s activities and the methods and objectives of the bookbinder education process. It is noteworthy to mention that they did not differ much from the ones that we currently employ to educate artists and designers. The information is a source of knowledge about the bookbinding industry’s dying profession.
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The description of a research project, the aim of which was to perform a multi-aspect analysis of the second hand market of books in Poland, including describing its structure in the qualitative, quantitative and spatial aspects, characteristics of the offer, client base and its place in the general process of publishing dissemination.
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The first part of the article focuses on the definition of a digital library and the history of digitization. In the main part of publication the authors presented the Pedagogical Digital Library (PBC) – its beginnings, the characteristics of the collections and the main assumptions. The next part of the article discusses the principles of PBC operation and explains the digitization processes used in the library. The rules of cooperation with other institutions in the matter of supplementing digital collections were also presented. Then the thematic collections comprising the PBC resource are exhaustively described. The focus was primarily on the key collection of the “Museum of the Handbook”. The last section provides basic statistics on the use of PBCs, discusses projects for the development of digital library and plans for the future. Characteristics were based on the website http://pbc.up.krakow.pl (collection layout, statistics, etc.), publicly available sources and on the authors' own experience.
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Review of: D. Hombek, Dzieje prasy polskiej: wiek XVIII (do 1795 r.). Kielce: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jana Kochanowskiego, 2016, ISBN 978-83-7133-668-3, 174 p.
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Faustyn Ciecierski, a Vilnius-based Dominican brother, left an interesting manuscript heritage. It includes Pamiętnik (The diary) from his exile to Siberia in the 1790s, Dziennik wizytatora (The journal of a visitor) written in the years 1821–1832 and supplements to the chronicle of the Lithuanian Dominican brothers. The preserved texts constitute a rich source material for historians – especially the researchers into the history of Dominicans – but also to geographers, travelers, and ethnographers as well as linguists and the literati. The heritage is also an interesting testimony of how the text and books functioned in the Dominican monasteries in Lithuania and Belarus. It allows for establishing new facts related to the artistic output; research, collector and bibliophile interests of the monastery members, their achievements in the fields of education, functioning of the library and archival collections in the Dominican monasteries of the Lithuanian province at the end of the 18th and the first three decades of the 19th century.
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Eleven monasteries of the Dominican Brothers and one of the Dominican Sisters existed in the area of the Diocese of Kamyanets-Podilskyi in the first half of the 19th century. Thanks to the visitations preserved from that period, we can find out about the personal makeup, emolument of the monastery, and its book collections. The latter are the subject of this article. Their analysis is based on the visitation protocols from 1824. Documents that allow for a detailed analysis and comparison of all monasteries as far as their book collections are concerned are preserved in the National Archive of the Khmelnytskyi Oblast. The source is even more important as it is the last one pertinent to all monasteries before their dissolution in 1832 (only the Dominican Sisters in Kamyanets-Podilskyi were dissolved in 1864). Based on these visitations, we managed to learn about the size of the book collections, their thematic scope, age, as well as the languages in which the books were written. The analysis led to the conclusion that Dominican libraries in Podolia were rather small. The biggest ones were in Kamyanets-Podilskyi and Letychiv, the rest of libraries fell far behind them. In the remaining libraries, homiletical and ascetic literature dominated, evidently corresponding to the preaching work of the monks. The only convent that belonged to the Order of St. Dominic also did not possess an exceptional collection. However, the negligent catalogue did not allow for a deeper analysis.
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