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Theological Faculty's Library
The Manuscript's Department and
The Old Print
 he manuscript's
department and the old prints belong to the Theological Faculty's
Library, though they are preserve in the archive as the deposit.
The base of this deposit is composed of former books' collection,
which used to be the property of Chapter's, as well as the
parish and convent's library. Almost all of this books was
left in Poland by the German government during World War I.
Some of them were taken by Germans to the Royal Library in
Berlin. Consequently our library in 1939 counted over 200.000
volumes, together with the collection of manuscripts from
XIX and XX century.
 uring Second
World War, in October 1940, the whole collection were taken
by German government and transported to the Saint Michael's
church, which was transformed into the warehouse. During four
years the books mostly was scattered in Poland and Germany.
The main part of the whole collection, which was left in St.
Michael's church burned down. The library had lost over 40.000
old prints and lots of books and volumes like: Patrologia
Migne'a (383 volumes), Acta Sanctorum (53 volumes), Concilia
Germaniae, some codex and many others which were very important
for the history and theology science. However from the turmoil
of war, some of the incunabula and manuscripts was saved.
 owadays the archives
collection preserves 2.097 manuscripts from XII - XX century,
799 incunabula and 3.508 old prints from XVI - XVIII century.
Mostly all of them are catalogue.
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