Catalogs and other material relating to the library at Palais Schaffgotsch, circa 1720s-1900

Manuscripts and printed material relating to the contents and operation of the library at Palais Schaffgotsch, Cieplice Śląskie-Zdrój, Poland. The collection is in three parts. The first part includes: manuscripts on the history and development of the library's collection, possibly prepared for a book on the history of the library, including a circa 1900 copy of a 1650 library inventory. The second part includes printed and manuscript material, including: printed copies of the library's regulations; a printed sign with the library's hours and rules; and a manuscript with a list of European noble houses and their family mottos, circa 1750. The third part includes: a manuscript inventory from circa 1720s of the family's collection of coins, shells, stones, and small portraits housed at the family's residence in Hermsdorf unterm Kynast (now Sobieszów, Poland); manuscripts detailing the library's holdings in church history, theology, medicine, and science; and a manuscript listing folio and quarto Asian manuscripts and printed books in the Bibliotheca Habichtiana, now held at Biblioteka Uniwersytecka we Wrocławiu, Wrocław, Poland