Motiejaus Valančiaus rankraštinio paveldo likimo peripetijos

The review discusses the publication “Motiejaus Valančiaus užrašų ir atsiminimų rankraščiai Lietuvių mokslo draugijoje: 1911–1914 metų istorija” [The Manuscripts of Motiejus Valančius’ Notes and Memoirs in the Lithuanian Scientific Society: The History of 1911–1914]. The publication consists of the preface by Vytautas Vanagas, the preface of M. Vaicekauskas (author), his study “The manuscripts of Motiejus Valančius’ notes and memoirs in the Lithuanian Scientific Society: the history of 1911–1914”, the annex “Documents. Letters and publications testifying the search and history of the manuscripts of Motiejus Valančius’ notes and memoirs”, bibliography, list of illustrations, summary in English and index of personal names. The preface by the author of the study exhaustively describes and analyses the written scientific, religious, cultural, political and social heritage of the prominent bishop. The reviewer notes the significance of the above manuscripts of notes and memoirs written in Polish (with Latin inserts) for Lithuanian history, culture and literature. Vaicekauskas sets the goal of the study to reconstruct the history of the bishop’s manuscripts seeking the archival, subject-specific and bibliographical exhaustiveness in the study, annex and comments. The scientific significance of the publication is increased by black-and-white reproductions of the letters and publications of some prominent figures of the 19th c. Lithuanian National Revival (J. Basanavičius, Vaižgantas, J. Čerkesa, priest Kazimieras Steponas Šaulys, priest Augustinas Liepinis and others) published for the first time