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.
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The Letter That Wasn’t to Dembiński: Rediscover...
The discovery of an original 1832 letter from Adolphe Thiers to General Lafayette, revealing the French government’s decision regarding Joachim Lelewel and the Polish exile leadership after the November Uprising.
The Letter That Wasn’t to Dembiński: Rediscover...
The discovery of an original 1832 letter from Adolphe Thiers to General Lafayette, revealing the French government’s decision regarding Joachim Lelewel and the Polish exile leadership after the November Uprising.
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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