Zbiory książkowe Biblioteki im. Gwalberta Pawlikowskiego

The aim of this article is to describe the fortunes and functioning of the book collection of the Pawlikowski family created by Gwalbert Pawlikowski (1792–1852). This book collection, at first gathered in Medyka, later in Lviv, is one of the more valuable monuments of the book culture. In 1921 donated to the Ossolineum on the principle of separateness was placed outside the Polish borders after 1945. Its profile, history and fortunes are closely connected with the Polish state as a testimony of changes at first in Galicia, later in the whole country