Biblioteka łęczyckiego konwentu dominikańskiego i jej księgozbiór w początkach XVII wieku

Abstract

The library of Dominican Convent of Łęczyca and its collection of books at the beginning of the 19th century. The hereby article deals with the history of specific convents with their libraries and book collections. It also describes the book collec- tion belonging to the Preacher Brethren of Łęczyca that is a hundred volumes big and originates from the beginning of the 17th century. The analysis of the mentioned book collection was carried out on the basis of two Latin library inventories, originating from the beginning of the 17th century, which were included in the codex of Preacher Brethren of Łęczyca. Books were sorted according to their content, and ascribed to particular sections according to a typical for a monaster library classification: Bibles, comments to bible, fathers, doctors and apologists of the Church, speculative and dogmatic theology, moral theology, textbooks for confessors, pulpit eloquence (preaching), polemists, hagiography, ascetism, mysticism, passions, catechetics, liturgics, ecclesiastical law, phi- losophy, encyclopedias, dictionaries, etc.