Kolekcja medalików i krzyżyków Władysława Bartynowskiego

Abstract

The aim of the book is to present a collection of medallions and crosses that belonged to Władysław Bartynowski (1832–1918). He was a collector of numismatic items, engravings, and antique books, as well as an antiquarian, a bibliophile, a book conservator and one of the earliest publishers of facsimiles of Polish antique books. He invented a method of reproducing coins and medals referred to in Poland as bartynotypia, i.e. “bartynotypy”, which makes it possible to create a copy of the original that is both a black-and-white print and a relief pressed into paper at the same time. Bartynowski bequeathed the majority of his collection to Cracow museums, namely the Czapski Museum and the National Museum, in recognition of which his name is commemorated on a donors’ plaque put up on the wall of Kraków’s Cloth Hall.