Jagiellonian Library
| Jagiellonian Library | |
|---|---|
| Biblioteka Jagiellońska | |
Jagiellonian Library main building (since 1938) | |
| 50°03′41″N 19°55′25″E / 50.0615°N 19.9236°E | |
| Location | Kraków, Poland |
| Type | National library |
| Established | 1364 |
| Collection | |
| Size | 6,603,824 |
| Access and use | |
| Circulation | 600,198 in reading rooms and outside |
| Other information | |
| Director | Prof. dr hab. Zdzisław Pietrzyk |
| Website | www |
The Jagiellonian Library (Polish: Biblioteka Jagiellońska, popular nickname Jagiellonka) is the library of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and with almost 6.7 million volumes, one of the largest libraries in Poland, serving as a public library, university library and part of the Polish national library system. It has a large collection of medieval manuscripts, for example the autograph of Copernicus' De Revolutionibus and Jan Długosz's Banderia Prutenorum, and a large collection of underground literature (so-called drugi obieg or samizdat) from the period of communist rule in Poland (1945–1989). The Jagiellonian also houses the Berlinka art collection, whose legal status is in dispute with Germany.