Poland

The Polish collection includes approximately 150,000 volumes and still consists predominantly of printed materials. In recent years, the annual increase has amounted to around 3,500 monographs. The holdings also include periodicals, with around 1,300 titles, among them 900 current periodicals. They are partly electronic journals, the proportion of which has increased strongly in recent years. The majority of the historical holdings – starting with the 16th century – are available digitally in the open access format using the library catalogue.

The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek owns two incunabula printed in Krakow:

Platea, Franciscus de: Opus restitutionum, usurarum et excommunicationum. [Krakow], 1475.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: 2 Inc.c.a. 400

Turrecremata, Johannes de: Expositio super toto psalterio. Krakow, about 1474/77.
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: 2 Inc.s.a. 1177

Incunabula of Matthew of Krakow, the later bishop of Worms, whose printed works were published in Memmingen, among other places, and of whom we do not know conclusively whether he was Polish or German, can likewise be counted among the Polish collection. This is analogously applicable to the incunabula print of the "Missale Cracoviense" printed by Georg Stuchs around 1495. The print was commissioned by Johannes Haller, a citizen of Krakow, with the authorization of the bishop of Krakow and Gniezno (one of the largest bishoprics in Europe at the time), Frederick Jagiellon (Polish: Fryderyk Jagiellończyk), who, in turn, was the son of the Polish king and grand duke of Lithuania, Casimir II (1427 – 1492) and Elizabeth of Austria (1437 – 1505).

Incunabula of Matthew of Krakow in the:
OPACplus/BSB catalogue

Missale Cracoviense. Nuremberg, [after 1493].
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: 2 Inc.s.a. 879 g

While literature was predominantly of a religious nature in the 15th century, the range of topics became broader in the 16th century. In addition to works in the Latin language, more literature was produced in the Polish language.

• The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek holds a number of works of the Polish poet Klemens Janicki, including "Tristia" (1542), "Epitalamii Serenissimo Regi Poloniae Sigismundo ... scripti, aeditio posthuma" (1543), "Vitae Regum Polonorum Elegiaco carmine descriptae" (1575) and "Vitae archiepiscoporum Gnesensium ..." (1574).

• The book "Pochodnia Kościół Boży prawdziwy" (1584) is a perfect example of the polemic writings of the Catholic theologian Hieronim Powodowski directed against the Polish Brethren.

• The most important poet of Polish Renaissance, Jan Kochanowski, is present with the work "Fragmenta álbó pozostáłé pismá" (1590) and the poem collection "Jan Kochanowski" (1600).

• The famous work by the pioneer of Polish genealogy, Bartłomiej (Bartosz) Paprocki, "Herby rycerztwa polskiego" (1584) merits mention as well.

• The "Constitucie y Przywileie ná Wálnych Seymiech Koronnych od Roku 1550 áź do Roku 1569 uchwálone" (1569) contain documents of the Polish regional parliaments.

• Maciej z Miechowa is a further Polish renaissance author. His "Tractatus de duabus Sarmatiis" (1518) describes the geography and ethnography of Eastern Europe. His view of the Polish history is pictured in the "Chronica Polonorum" (1521). Maciej z Miechowa is also the author of the medical textbook "Conservatio Sanitatis" (1522).

• The main work by Nicolaus Copernicus "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium" (1543) explains the heliocentric system.

• The most widely known work by the Renaissance thinker Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski is the disquisition "Commentarii de Republica emendanda" (1554). A further work by this author is "Andreae Fricii Modrevii libri tres" (1562).

• One of the most important works by Stanislaus Hosius, a representative of the Polish Counter-Reformation, is "Confessio catholicae fidei Christiana" (1557). Further works are contained in the two-volume collection "Opera omnia" (1584).

• Among the most important works of the humanist Marcin Kromer there are "De origine et rebus gestis Polonorum libri XXX" (1558) and "Polonia siue de sitv popvlis, moribvs, magistratibvs et repvblica regni Polonici" (1577).

• The author of the works "Pro Sacratissima Eucharistia contra haeresim Zwinglianam" (1576) and "Kazania o siedmi sákrámentách kośćioła s. Kátholickiego" (1600) is the Jesuit Piotr Skarga.

Janicki, Klemens: Tristia. Cracovia, 1542.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: A.lat.c. 34#Beibd.2

Janicki, Klemens: Epitalamii Serenissimo Regi Poloniae Sigismundo ... scripti, aeditio posthuma. Cracovia, 1543.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: 4 L.impr.c.n.mss. 1037#Beibd.2

Janicki, Klemens: Vitae Regum Polonorum Elegiaco carmine descriptae. Cracovia, 1575.
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: ESlg/Path. 1012#Beibd.1

Janicki, Klemens: Vitae archiepiscoporum Gnesensium ... Cracovia, 1574.
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: ESlg/Path. 1012#Beibd.2

Powodowski, Hieronim: Pochodnia Kościół Boży prawdziwy. W Poznániu, 1584.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: Asc. 3880 m

Kochanowski, Jan: Fragmenta álbó pozostáłé pismá. W Krakowie, 1590.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: Res/4 P.o.rel. 430#Beibd.2

Kochanowski, Jan: Jan Kochanowski. W Krakowie, 1600.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: Res/4 P.o.rel. 430

Paprocki, Bartłomiej: Herby rycerztwa polskiego. W Krakowie, 1584.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: 2 Geneal. 131

Constitucie y Przywileie ná Wálnych Seymiech Koronnych od Roku 1550 áź do Roku 1569 uchwálone. W Krákowie, 1569.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: 2 J.rel. 440#Beibd.1

Maciej <z Miechowa>: Tractatus de duabus Sarmatiis. Auguste Vindelicor[um], 1518.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: Res/4 Russ. 25 g | 4 Russ. 25 ga

Maciej <z Miechowa>: Chronica Polonorum. Craccovi[a]e, 1521.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: Res/2 Polon. 17

Maciej <z Miechowa>: Conservatio Sanitatis. Cracovia, 1522.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: 4 Path. 217

Kopernikus, Nikolaus: De revolutionibus orbium coelestium. Norimbergae, 1543.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: Rar. 1453#Beibd.1 | Rar. 1454

Frycz Modrzewski, Andrzej: Commentarii de Republica emendanda. Basileae, 1554.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: 2 Pol.g. 26

Frycz Modrzewski, Andrzej: Andreae Fricii Modrevii libri tres. [Basel], 1562.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: 4 Dogm. 215

Hosius, Stanislaus: Confessio Catholicae Fidei Christiana, Vel Potivs Explicatio Qvaedam Confessionis A Patribvs Factae In Synodo Provinciali, Qvae Habita est Petrikouiae. Mogvntiae, 1557.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: 2 Conc. 61 | 2 Conc. 62 | 2 Conc. 62 u

Hosius, Stanislaus: Opera Omnia. Coloniae, 1584.
Volume 1:
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: 2 Th.u. 57-1 
Volume 2:
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number:  2 Th.u. 57-2

Kromer, Marcin: Martini Cromeri de origine et rebus gestis Polonorum libri XXX. Basilea, 1558.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: Res/4 Polon. 106 d

Kromer, Marcin: Polonia siue de sitv popvlis, moribvs, magistratibvs et repvblica regni Polonici: libri duo. Coloniae, 1577.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: Polon. 20 a

Skarga, Piotr: Pro Sacratissima Evcharistia Contra Haeresim Zuinglianam. Vilnae, 1576.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: Polem. 2454 | Polem. 2751#Beibd.1

Skarga, Piotr: Kazania o siedmi sákrámentách kośćioła s. kátholickiego. Krakowie, 1600.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: 2 Hom. 475

• The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek owns two Polish manuscripts of the 17th century. One of them is a register of a coin collection of Krzysztof Radziwiłł "Inventarium collectionis nummorum Principis Christophori Radzivil lingua Polonica" (1631). The second manuscript is the "prayer book of Maria Kazimiera Sobieska" of the 17th century (1677).

• The lord steward Mikołaj Krzysztof Radziwiłł went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem from 1582 to 1584. Thomasz Treter wrote an adaptation of the original Polish book on this in the Latin language, titled "Hierosolymitana peregrinatio" (1601). This Latin text was later translated back into Polish: "Peregrinacia Abo Pielgrzymowanie do Zięmie Swiętey" (1607).

• From the important translator of Renaissance literature Piotr Kochanowski, the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek holds a later edition (1687) of his translation of the "Goffred abo Jeruzalem wyzwolona" by Torquato Tasso.

• The three-volume "Thesaurus Polono-Latino-Graecus" was written by Grzegorz Knapski, one of Poland's most important lexicographers. The second Latin-Polish volume (1626) has been digitized.

• The book "Monumenta Sarmatarum" (1655) was written by Szymon Starowolski, who mostly wrote in Latin. Among the further works there are: "Simonis Starovolsci Polonia: nunc denuo recognita et aucta" (1652), "Ad Principes Christianos De Pace …" (1645), "Institutorum rei militaris libri octo" (1645) and "Epitome conciliorum tam generalium, quam provincialium in graeca et latina Ecclesia celebratorum …" (1653).

• Written by Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, the most widely known Polish writer of Baroque literature, who wrote in Latin, the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek owns the poem collection "Lyricorum libri IV" (1632).

• The book "Wojna domowa z Kozaki i Tatary" (1681), written in the form of a poem, is from the Baroque poet Samuel Twardowski.

• Łukasz Górnicki is the author of the historical treatise "Dzieie w Koronie Polskiey" (1637).

• Written in Latin, the book "Nova Gigantomachia" (1655) by the priest Augustyn Kordecki describes the siege of the monastery of Jasna Góra during the Swedish-Polish war.

• The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek owns a number of political and historical writings by Andrzej Maksymilian Fredro. The widely known treatise "Monita politico-moralia" (1664) is available at the library in the form of an edition of the year 1679. A further work is titled "Gestorum Populi Poloni sub Henrico Valesio" (1652).

• There are also some works by Wespazjan Kochowski, historian and Baroque poet, i.a. "Hipomnema Reginarum Poloniae" (1672). The collection further includes the historical report about the Ottoman siege of Vienna "Commentarius belli adversum Turcas" (1684) and the historical treatise "Annalium Poloniae Climacter secundus" (1688).

Inventarium collectionis nummorum Principis Christophori Radzivil linguâ Polonicâ. [S. l.], 1631.
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: Cod.slav. 2

Gebetbuch der Maria Kazimiera Sobieska aus dem 17. Jahrhundert. [S. l.], 17. Jahrhundert (1677).
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: Cod.slav. 10

Radziwiłł, Mikołaj Krzysztof: Hierosolymitana peregrinatio. Brunsviga, 1601.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: 2 It.sing. 67

Radziwiłł, Mikołaj Krzysztof: Peregrinacia Abo Pielgrzymowanie do Zięmie Swiętey. W Krakowie, 1607.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: It.sing. 1503 h

Tasso, Torquato: Goffred abo Jeruzalem Wyzwolona. [Translation of Kochanowski, Piotr]. W Krakowie, 1687.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: P.o.it. 1158 y

Knapski, Grzegorz: Thesaurus Polono-Latino-Graecus. Cracovia, 1626.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: 4 Polygl. 14

Starowolski, Szymon: Monumenta Sarmatarum. Cracovia, 1655.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: 2 Polon. 21

Starowolski, Szymon: Simonis Starovolsci Polonia: nunc denuo recognita et aucta. Dantiscum, 1652.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: Polon. 98 s

Starowolski, Szymon: Simonis Starovolsci[i] Ad Principes Christianos De Pace … [S. l.], [ca. 1645].
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: Res/4 L.eleg.m. 227 and 4 Diss. 1143#Beibd.20

Starowolski, Szymon: Institutorum rei militaris libri octo. Florentia, 1646.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: Res/Sc.mil. 122

Starowolski, Szymon: Simon Starovolscii Epitome conciliorum tam generalium quam provincialium in Graeca et Latina ecclesia celebratorum, itemque vitarum Romanorum pontificum, epistolarum decretalium et diversarum sanctionum eorum. Roma, 1653.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: 2 Conc.c. 59

Sarbiewski, Maciej Kazimierz: Lyricorum libri IV. Antverpia, 1632.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: 4 P.o.lat. 626

Twardowski, Samuel: Woyna domowa z-Kozaki i Tatary, Moskwą, potym Szwedámi, i z-Węgry, przez lat dwanascie Zá Pánowánia Nayjásnieyszego Jana Kazimierza Krola Polskiego Tocząca się. Calissii, 1681.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: 4 P.o.rel. 470

Górnicki, Łukasz: Dzieie w Koronie Polskiey. Krakau, 1637.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: 4 Polon. 12

Kordecki, Augustyn: Nova Gigantomachia contra Sacram Imaginem Deiparae Virginis a S. Luca depictam in Claro Monte. Cracovia, 1655.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: Res/2 V.ss. 52 m

Fredro, Andrzej Maksymilian: Monita politico-moralia et icon ingeniorum. [Frankfurt], 1679.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: Ph.pr. 472

Fredro, Andrzej Maksymilian: Gestorum populi Poloni sub Henrico Valesio Polonorum postea vero Galliae rege liber. Dantiscum, 1652.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: 4 Polon. 7

Kochowski, Wespazjan: Hipomnema Reginarum Poloniae. Cracovia, 1672.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: 4 Polon. 18

Kochowski, Wespazjan: Commentarius Belli Adversum Turcas ad Viennam, et in Hungaria. Cracovia, 1684.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: 43.3152

Kochowski, Wespazjan: Annalium Poloniae Climacter secundus. Cracovia, 1688.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: 2 Polon. 14

• The Polish King Stanisław I Leszczyński is the author of several political writings, among them "Głos wolny wolność ubezpieczający" (1733).

• Three volumes of the "Herby y familie rycerskie" (1728 – 1740) by the well-known genealogist Kasper Niesiecki should be mentioned, which later served as the foundation of the 10-volume book of coats of arms "Herbarz polski".

• A further heraldic-genealogical work is "Zbior krotki herbow polskich oraz wsławionych cnotą i naukami Polakow" (1763) of the priest Benedykt Chmielowski.

• Concerning Ignacy Krasicki, one of the most important authors of the age of Enlightenment in Poland, the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek owns several works, mostly in the form of later editions. The first Polish novel "Mikołaja Doświadczyńskiego przypadki" by Ignacy Krasicki was published in 1776. The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek owns a later edition of the book of the year 1803. The voluminous edition of his works "Dzieła Krasickiego" (1830) is accessible online.

• Two later editions of the comedies of Franciszek Zabłocki should be mentioned: "Fircyk w zalotach" (1781, edition of 1820) and "Sarmatyzm" (1784, edition of 1820).

• The collection of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek also includes the two-volume historical treatise "Uwagi nad życiem Jana Zamoyskiego Kanclerza i Hetmana W. K." (1785 – 1788) by Stanisław Staszic, a further important personality of Enlightenment in Poland.

• Franciszek Ksawery Dmochowski is the author of the first Polish poetics "Sztuka rymotworcza" (1788).

• In 1788, the Polish writer Jan Potocki, who wrote in French, published his travel report "Voyage en Turquie et en Egypte". Jan Potocki is the first Polish author to address the archaeology of the Slavs. His considerations can be found in the multi-volume work "Essay sur l'histoire universelle et recherches sur celle de la Sarmatie" (1789 – 1790).

Stanislaw I. König von Polen: Glos wolny wolnośc ubespieczaiacy. S. l., 1733.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: 4 Polon. 11

Niesiecki, Kasper: Herby y familie rycerskie. Lwów, Volume 1 (1728) – 3 (1740).
Digital version: Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: 4 Geneal. 137 o-1 | 4 Geneal. 137 o-2 | 4 Geneal. 137 o-3

Chmielowski, Benedykt: Zbior krotki herbow polskich oraz wsławionych cnotą i naukami Polakow. W Warszawie, 1763.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: Herald. 208 y

Krasicki, Ignacy: Przypadki Mikołaja Doświadczyńskiego. Sanok, 1855.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: P.o.rel. 8189 v

Krasicki, Ignacy: Dzieła Krasickiego. Paryż [u.a.], 1830.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: P.o.rel. 8194 x

Zabłocki, Franciszek: Fircyk w zalotach. Wilno, 1820.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: P.o.rel. 2788

Zabłocki, Franciszek: Sarmatyzm. Wilno, 1820.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: P.o.rel. 2788 a

Staszic, Stanisław: Uwagi nad życiem Jana Zamoyskiego Kanclerza i Hetmana W. K. [Warszawa], Volume 1 (1785) – 2 (1788).
Digital version: Volume 1 | Volume 2
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: Biogr. 3327 s-1/2

Dmochowski, Franciszek Ksawery: Sztuka rymotworcza. W Warszawie, 1788.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: P.o.rel. 8194 i

Potocki, Jan: Voyage en Turquie et en Égypte, fait en l'année 1784. A Varsovie u. a., 1788.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: It.sing. 1503 t

Potocki, Jan: Essay sur l'histoire universelle et recherches sur celle de la Sarmatie. Varsovie, Volume 1/2 (1789) – 4 (1790).
Digital version: Volume 1/2 | Volume 3 | Volume 4
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call numberr: Polon. 87 x-1/2 | Polon. 87 x-3 | Polon. 87 x-4 and further copies

• The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek holds a multiplicity of works by the writer and historian Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz. The following list includes merely a selection of works that have been digitized by now.
  • The two-volume collection of poems and prose "Pisma" (1803 – 1805)
  • The collection of patriotic poems "Śpiewy historyczne" (1816)
  • His three-volume historical treatise "Dzieje panowania Zygmunta III." (1811 – 1816), edition of the year 1836
  • The multi-volume collection "Zbior pamiętnikow historycznych o dawney Polszcze" (1822 – 1883)

• A selection of the religious writings of the archbishop and writer Jan Paweł Woronicz is presented in "Pisma" (1832 – 1833).

• The five-volume edition of the dramas "Komedye" (1826 – 1838) of the dramatist Aleksander Fredro is accessible online.

• The collection of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek also includes numerous works by the most important representatives of Polish literature of Romanticism – Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Słowacki und Zygmunt Krasiński. Firstly, this applies to the national epic "Pan Tadeusz" (first edition, 1834) by Adam Mickiewicz. Moreover, a number of multi-volume collected works by Adam Mickiewicz have been digitized. There are four volumes of his works "Pisma" (1844), 11 volumes of the "Pisma" (1860 – 1861) and a later four-volume edition "Dzieła" (1868). From the field of poetry, four volumes of the "Poezye" (1828 – 1832) should be mentioned. Several works of the great poet of Polish Romanticism Zygmunt Krasiński have been made accessible online, among them two volumes of the "Pisma" (1875). Likewise, several works of the third great Polish Romanticist Juliusz Słowacki have been digitized, for example four volumes of the "Pisma" (1860).

• Also worth mentioning is the three-volume edition of works "Pisma" (1838) by Seweryn Goszczyński, a further representative of Polish Romanticism.

• The five-volume edition of the works of the Polish publicist Maurycy Mochnacki "Dzieła" (1863) has been digitized.

• The poem collection "Poezye" (1863) of the writer and artist Cyprian Kamil Norwid, who is already associated with Classicism, should be mentioned as well.

• From the works by Józef Ignacy Kraszewski in the field of literature studies, the "Studja literackie" (1842) and "Nowe studja literackie" (1843) should be mentioned. Józef Ignacy Kraszewski also wrote a history of Vilnius in four volumes titled "Wilno od początków jego do roku 1750" (1840 – 1842). Among the multitude of fiction works of the author, let us pick out the example of the historical novel "Maleparta" in four volumes (1862).

• Numerous works of the three most important representatives of literary Positivism – Eliza Orzeszkowa, Bolesław Prus and Henryk Sienkiewicz – can also be found at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek holds only later editions of the most widely known works of the polish Nobel Prize laureate Henryk Sienkiewicz written at the end of the 19th century. Works such as the trilogy "Ogniem i mieczem", "Potop" or "Pan Wołodyjowski" can be found in the forty volumes of the collected works "Pisma" (beginning of the 20th century).

• Several reference works of the 19th century have been digitized.
  • The probably most widely known Polish bibliographer Karol Estreicher is the author of the "Bibliografia polska XV. – XVI. stólecia" (1875).
  • The new edition of the "Herbarz Polski" (1839 – 1845) extended to ten volumes by Kasper Niesiecki, is of particular importance for genealogical and heraldic studies.
  • The genealogical reference books also include the reprinted and extended edition of the "Herby rycerstwa polskiego" (1858) by Bartosz (Bartłomiej) Paprocki as adapted by Kazimierz Józef Turowski.
  • The linguist and lexicographer Samuel Linde wrote the dictionary "Słownik języka polskiego" (1807 – 1814) in three volumes.
  • The second, reviewed and extended edition of the "Słownik języka polskiego" (1854 – 1860) in six volumes is accessible online as well.
  • The art historian Edward Rastawiecki is the author of the "Słownik malarzy polskich" (1850 – 1857) in three volumes.

Niemcewicz, Julian Ursyn: Juliana Niemcewicza pism różnych wierszem i prozą tom ... W Warszawie, volume 1 (1803) – 2 (1805).
Digital version: Volume 1 | Volume 2
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: P.o.rel. 8204 f-1 | P.o.rel. 8204 f-2

Niemcewicz, Julian Ursyn: Śpiewy historyczne. Warszawa, 1816.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: P.o.rel. 2659

Niemcewicz, Julian Ursyn: Dzieie panowania Zygmunta III. W Wrocławiu, volume 1 (1836) – 3 (1836).
Digital version: Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: Polon. 72 c-1 | Polon. 72 c-2 | Polon. 72 c-3

Niemcewicz, Julian Ursyn: Zbior pamiętnikow historycznych o dawney Polszcze. W Warszawie, volume 2 (1822) – 6 (1833).
Digital version: Volume 2 | Volume 3 | Volume 4 | Volume 5 | Volume 6
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: Res/Polon. 157 l-2 | Res/Polon. 157 l-3 | Res/Polon. 157 l-4 | Res/Polon. 157 l-5 | Res/Polon. 157 l-6

Woronicz, Jan P.: Pisma. W Krakowie, volume 1 (1832) – 3 (1833).
Digital version: Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: Hom. 2093 m-1/3

Fredro, Aleksander: Komedye Alexandra Hrabiego Fredra. W Wiédniu, volume 1 (1826) – 5 (1838).
Digital version: Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3 | Volume 4 | Volume 5
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: P.o.rel. 8195 b-1 | P.o.rel. 8195 b-2 | P.o.rel. 8195 b-3 | P.o.rel. 8195 b-4 | P.o.rel. 8195 b-5

Mickiewicz, Adam: Pan Tadeusz czyli ostatni zajazd na Litwie. Paryż, volume 1 (1834) – 2 (1834).
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: Res/P.o.rel. 8210 a-1/2

Mickiewicz, Adam: Pisma Adama Mickiewicza. Paryż, volume 1 (1844) – 4 (1844).
In several copies
Digital version: Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3 | Volume 4
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: P.o.rel. 2590-1 und P.o.rel. 8189 k-1 and further volumes

Mickiewicz, Adam: Pisma Adama Mickiewicza. Paryż [u. a.], volume 1 (1861) – 11 (1860).
Digital version: Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3 | Volume 4 | Volume 5 | Volume 6 | Volume 7 | Volume 8 | Volume 9 | Volume 10 | Volume 11
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: P.o.rel. 2592-1 and further volumes

Mickiewicz, Adam: Dzieła. Paryż, volume 1 (1868) – 4 (1868).
Digital version: Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3 | Volume 4 
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: P.o.rel. 2590 g-1 | P.o.rel. 2590 g-2 | P.o.rel. 2590 g-3 | P.o.rel. 2590 g-4

Mickiewicz, Adam: Poezye Adama Mickiewicza. Paryż, volume 1 (1828) – 4 (1832).
Digital version: Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3 | Volume 4
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: P.o.rel. 8194 r-1 | P.o.rel. 8194 r-2 | P.o.rel. 8194 r-3 | P.o.rel. 8194 r-4

Krasiński, Zygmunt: Pisma Zygmunta Krasińskiego. Lwów, volume 1 (1875) – 2 (1875).
Digital version: Volume 1 | Volume 2
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: P.o.rel. 8191 b-1 | P.o.rel. 8191 b-2

Słowacki, Juliusz: Pisma. Lipsk, volume 1 (1860) – 4 (1860).
Digital version: Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3 | Volume 4
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: P.o.rel. 2360-2 | P.o.rel. 2360-3 | P.o.rel. 2360-4 | P.o.rel. 2360-5

Goszczyński, Seweryn: Pisma Seweryna Goszczyńskiego. Lwów, volume 1 (1838) – 3 (1838).
Digital version: Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: P.o.rel. 8194 n-1 | P.o.rel. 8194 n-2 | P.o.rel. 8194 n-3

Mochnacki, Maurycy: Dzieła Maurycego Mochnackiego. Poznań, volume 1 (1863) – 5 (1863).
Digital version: Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3 | Volume 4 | Volume 5
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: Opp. 670 x-1 | Opp. 670 x-2 | Opp. 670 x-3 | Opp. 670 x-4 | Opp. 670 x-5

Norwid, Cyprian: Poezye. Lipsk, 1863.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: P.o.rel. 2360-21/22

Kraszewski, Józef Ignacy: Studja literackie. Wilno, 1842.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: H.lit.u. 155 o-1

Kraszewski, Józef Ignacy: Nowe studja literackie. Warszawa, volume 1 (1843) – 2 (1843).
Digital version: Volume 1 | Volume 2
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: H.lit.u. 155 o-2

Kraszewski, Józef Ignacy: Wilno od początków jego do roku 1750. Wilno, volume 1 (1840) – 4 (1842).
Digital version: Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3 | Volume 4
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: Russ. 76 s-1/2 | Russ. 76 s-3/4

Kraszewski, Józef Ignacy: Maleparta. Bruxella, volume 1 (1862) – 4 (1862).
Digital version: Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3 | Volume 4
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: P.o.rel. 2365-12/13 | P.o.rel. 2365-14/15

Sienkiewicz, Henryk: Pisma Henryka Sienkiewicza. Warszawa [u.a.], volume 1 (1911) – 36 (about 1920).
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: P.o.rel. 2731 t-1 and further volumes

Estreicher, Karol Józef Teofil: Bibliografia polska XV. – XVI. stólecia. Kraków, 1875.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: Hbost/Ea 94

Niesiecki, Kasper: Herbarz Polski Kaspra Niesieckiego. W Lipska. Volume 1 (1839) – 10 (1845).
Digital version: Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3 | Volume 4 | Volume 5 | Volume 6 | Volume 7 | Volume 8 | Volume 9 | Volume 10
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: Herald. 112 o-1 and further volumes

Paprocki, Bartłomiej: Herby rycerstwa polskiego. Wydanie Kazimierza Józefa Turowskiego. Kraków, 1858.
Digital version
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: Hbost/Es 81

Linde, Samuel Bogumił: Słownik języka polskiego. W Warszawie, volume 1 (1807/08) – 3 (1814).
Digital version: Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: Hbost/Eu 112-1 | Hbost/Eu 112-2 | Hbost/Eu 112-3

Linde, Samuel Bogumił: Słownik języka polskiego. Wyd. 2, poprawne i pomno. Lwów, volume 1 (1854) – 6 (1860).
Digital version: Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3 | Volume 4 | Volume 5 | Volume 6
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: Hbost/Eu 75-1 | 4 L.rel. 655 o-1 and further volumes

Rastawiecki, Edward: Słownik malarzów polskich tudziež obcych w polsce osiadłych lub czasowo w niej przebywających. Warszawa, volume 1 (1850) – 3 (1857).
Digital version: Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: Art. 243 k-1 | Art. 243 k-2 | Art. 243 k-3

• The historical novel "Popioły" by Stefan Żeromski was initially printed as a series in the Warsaw weekly journal "Tygodnik Ilustrowany" in 1902. The book edition was published by Marchlewski in Munich in 1903. The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek owns all three volumes of this edition. In the same year, Marchlewski published the first translation of the narrations "Rozdziobią nas kruki, wrony" into German, titled "Den Raben und Geiern zum Fraß" (Ravens and Crows Will Peck Us to Pieces). The collection also encompasses Stefan Żeromski's works "Dziela" (1973 – 1975) and over 20 volumes of the not yet concluded collected works "Pisma zebrane" (since 1983).

• The collection includes numerous works of the Polish Nobel Prize laureate Władysław Reymont, among them various multi-volume editions of the "Pisma", from both the years 1920 to 1923 and the post-war period (1949 – 1952 and later).

• Most volumes of the 12-volume edition of the works "Pisma" (1901 – 1907) of the writer and artist Stanisław Wyspiański are available in the form of first editions.

• A selection of further multi-volume collected works of well-known authors:
  • The poem collection "Poezye" (1915 – 1925) by Maria Konopnicka
  • The works "Dziela" (1986 – 1997) by Witold Gombrowicz

Żeromski, Stefan: Popioły. München, volume 1 (1903) – 3 (1903).
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: P.o.rel. 2802 k-1 | P.o.rel. 2802 k-2 | P.o.rel. 2802 k-3

Żeromski, Stefan: Den Raben und Geiern zum Fraß. München, 1903.
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: L.eleg.g. 281 ti-10

Żeromski, Stefan: Dzieła. Warszawa, volume 1 (1973) – 23 (1975).
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: 75.3350-1 and further volumes

Żeromski, Stefan: Pisma zebrane. Warszawa, volume 2 (1983) –
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: 84.20212-2 and further volumes

Reymont, Władysław Stanisław: Pisma. Warszawa, volume 1 (1920) – 12 (1923).
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: P.o.rel. 2697 q-1 and further volumes

Reymont, Władysław Stanisław: Pisma. Warszawa, volume 1 (1952) – 19 (1949).
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: 52.364-1 and further volumes

Wyspiański, Stanisław: Pisma. Kraków, volume 1 (1901) – 12 (1907).
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: P.o.rel. 2785-1 and further volumes

Konopnicka, Maria: Poezye. Warszawa [u. a.], volume 1 (about 1915) – 10 (1925).
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: P.o.rel. 8112 s-1 and further volumes

Gombrowicz, Witold: Dzieła. Kraków u. a., volume 1 (1986) – 13 (1996).
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, call number: 88.26567-1 and further volumes

Reference works:

The library's East European, Oriental and Asian Reading Room accommodates numerous important reference works.
A number of them, which are also accessible online, have already been mentioned.
East European, Oriental and Asian Reading Room

Among the most important bibliographies there are:

Estreicher, Karol: Bibliografia polska
Subdivided into several periods, very comprehensive and regularly updated
Locations in the East European, Oriental and Asian Reading Room: Hbost/Ea 93 | Hbost/Ea 95 | Hbost/Ea 97 

Korbut, Gabriel: Literatura polska od początków do wojny światowej, 2nd enlarged edition. Warszawa, volume 1 (1929) – (1931).
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, location in the East European, Oriental and Asian Reading Room: Hbost/Eu 207-1 and further volumes

Bibliografia literatury polskiej. „Nowy Korbut”. Warszawa, volume 1 (1963) – (18 volumes so far)
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, location in the East European, Oriental and Asian Reading Room: Hbost/Eu 208-1 and further volumes

Bibliografia historii polskiej. Warszawa, 1938/39. (ongoing)
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, location in the East European, Oriental and Asian Reading Room: Hbost/Es 149-1938/39 and further volumes

Encyclopaedias meriting mention:

Orgelbrand, Samuel: Encyklopedyja powszechna S. Orgelbranda. Warszawa, volume 1 (1883) – 12 (1884).
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, location in the East European, Oriental and Asian Reading Room: Hbost/Ea 4-1 and further volumes

Orgelbrand, Samuel: S. Orgelbranda Encyklopedja powszechna. Warszawa, volume 1 (1898) – 18 (1912).
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, location in the East European, Oriental and Asian Reading Room: Hbost/Ea 5-1 and further volumes

Encyklopedja powszechna „Ultima Thule“. Warszawa, volume 1 (1927) – 10 (1938/39).
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, location in the East European, Oriental and Asian Reading Room: Hbost/Ea 11-1 and further volumes

Ilustrowana encyklopedja Trzaski, Everta i Michalskiego. Warszawa, volume 1 (1927) – 5 (1927).
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, location in the East European, Oriental and Asian Reading Room: Hbost/Ea 13-1 and further volumes

Wielka ilustrowana encyklopedja powszechna. Kraków, volume 1 (1930) – 46 (2003).
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, location in the East European, Oriental and Asian Reading Room: Hbost/Ea 9-1 and further volumes

Wielka encyklopedia powszechna PWN. Warszawa, volume 1 (1962) – 13 (1970).
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, location in the East European, Oriental and Asian Reading Room: Hbost/Ea 18-1 and further volumes

Nowa encyklopedia powszechna PWN. Warszawa, volume (1995) – 7 (1999).
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, location in the East European, Oriental and Asian Reading Room: Hbost/Ea 17 s-1 and further volumes

A selection of the numerous specialised encyclopaedias worth mentioning:

Gloger, Zygmunt: Encyklopedja staropolska ilustrowana. Warszawa, volume 1 (1900) – 4 (1903).
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, location in the East European, Oriental and Asian Reading Room: Hbost/Ea 62-1 and further volumes

Brückner, Aleksander: Trzaski, Everta i Michalskiego Encyklopedia staropolska. Warszawa, volume 1 (1937) – 2 (1939).
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, location in the East European, Oriental and Asian Reading Room: Hbost/Ea 64-1 and a further volume

Podręczna encyklopedya kościelna. Warszawa [u. a.], volume 1/2 (1904) – 33/34 (1916).
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, location in the East European, Oriental and Asian Reading Room: Hbost/Ed 4-1/2 and further volumes

Encyklopedia muzyczna PWM. Kraków, volume 1 (1979). (is continuously extended by supplements until today)
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, location in the East European, Oriental and Asian Reading Room: Hbost/Ex 36 b-1 and further volumes

Encyklopedia katolicka. Lublin, volume 1 (1973) – 20 (2014).
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, location in the East European, Oriental and Asian Reading Room: Hbost/Ed 4 e-1 and further volumes

Important genealogical reference books:

Boniecki, Adam J.: Herbarz polski. Warszawa, volume 1 (1899) – 16 (1913).
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, location in the East European, Oriental and Asian Reading Room: Hbost/Es 121-1,1 and further volumes

Zernicki-Szeliga, Emilian: Der polnische Adel und die demselben hinzugetretenen andersländischen Adelsfamilien. Hamburg, volume 1 (1900) – 2 (1900).
Digital version: Volume 1 | Volume 2
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, location in the East European, Oriental and Asian Reading Room: Hbost/Es 84-1 and a further volume

Important dictionaries of the Polish language:

Słownik języka polskiego. Warszawa, volume 1 (1900) – 8 (1925).
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, location in the East European, Oriental and Asian Reading Room: Hbost/Eu 76-1 and further volumes 

Słownik staropolski. Warszawa, volume 1 (1953) – 11 (2002).
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, location in the East European, Oriental and Asian Reading Room: Hbost/Eu 73-1 and further volumes

Słownik polszczyzny XVI wieku. Wrocław [u. a.], volume 1 (1966). (already more than 30 volumes)
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, location in the East European, Oriental and Asian Reading Room: Hbost/Eu 73 e-1 and further volumes

Karłowicz, Jan: Słownik gwar polskich. Kraków, volume 1 (1900) – 6 (1911).
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, location in the East European, Oriental and Asian Reading Room: Hbost/Eu 102 m-1 and further volumes

Sławski, Franciszek: Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego. Kraków, volume 1 (1952) – (5 volumes so far)
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, location in the East European, Oriental and Asian Reading Room: Hbost/Eu 105-1 and further volumes

Brückner, Aleksander: Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego. 2. wyd. Warszawa, 1970.
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, location in the East European, Oriental and Asian Reading Room: Hbost/Eu 104 e

To complement the list, two important specialised dictionaries:

Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich. Warszawa, volume 1 (1880) – 15,2 (1902).
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, location in the East European, Oriental and Asian Reading Room: Hbost/Er 21-1 and further volumes 

Polski słownik biograficzny. Kraków, volume 1 (1935) – (almost 50 volumes so far)
Printed version in the OPACplus/BSB catalogue, location in the East European, Oriental and Asian Reading Room: Hbost/Ea 215-1 and further volumes

The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek holds over 40,000 books and journals from Poland on microfilm. The collection is from the places of publication that form an intersection of the Polish and the German literature.

Kunz, Norbert: Polonica der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek – Bestände und digitale Dienstleistungen. In: Z badań nad Książką i księgozbiorami historycznymi 11 (2017), p. 345-355.