Summary

Summary
...The library of the Mogiła abbey is the most valuable monastic library in Poland. Over the cen-
turies, thanks to the excellent education and bibliophylic passion of the Mogiła abbots, numerous in-
cunabula and later works were gathered here, particularly works in the areas of religion, history and
politics.From the Xii to the XVii century the library was utilized as a scientific workshop for many
scholars from Mogiła among whom were many lecturers in the Cracow Academy as well as scholars
of international reputation, for instance, James from Paradyż. inventory preserved from 1664 and 1668
reveal that the monastery library held less than one thousand works with the vast, majority by excellent
authors and very precious, with the competence acquired by the cistercians, among them especially by
John Taczel, erazma Ciołek, Marcin Białobrzeski and Paul Piasecki. During the century as the conse-
quence of natural disasters, wars and the collection passion of the clerical and secular dignitaries in the
XViii century, its collection was gravely reduced but still qualifies as one of the most significant and
well-equipped monastic libraries in Poland.