Research

Some of the most interesting objects begin with something that does not quite add up: a misidentified recipient, an unexplained inscription, an unexpected manuscript fragment in a binding, or a Polish connection overlooked in an international catalogue. This page brings together the discoveries and investigations that follow from those clues, tracing the hidden histories of rare books, manuscripts and historical objects across Poland and the rest of the world.

  • The Discovery of a Lost 1632 Polish Choirbook

    The Discovery of a Lost 1632 Polish Choirbook

    How an absolutely huge manuscript leaf, a tiny dolphin and a forgotten Dominican artist helped recover the story of an extraordinary book made in seventeenth-century Poznań

    The Discovery of a Lost 1632 Polish Choirbook

    How an absolutely huge manuscript leaf, a tiny dolphin and a forgotten Dominican artist helped recover the story of an extraordinary book made in seventeenth-century Poznań

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