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Chopin Institute📚 The Diocesan Library in Pelplin among the institutions included in the Fryderyk Chopin Institute’s digitization project Among the most important institutions in Pelplin is the Bishop Jan Bernard Szlaga Diocesan Library. Established in 1829 as the Seminary Library, its initial holdings included the collections of monasteries in the Chełmno diocese. Over the following decades, it expanded to include volumes from the collections of the Bernardines from Lubawa and Zamarty, the Cistercians from Oliwa, the Reformed Friars from Wejherowo, Kiszpork, Toruń-Pogórze, Brodnica, and Dzierzgoń, the missionaries from Chełmno, the Benedictine nuns from Grudziądz, Żarnowiec, and Toruń, the Jesuits from Grudziądz and Stare Szkoty, the Dominicans from Toruń, the Missionaries of St. Adalbert, the Carmelites and Bridgettines from Gdańsk, the Carthusians from Kartuzy, as well as the church library in Radzyn and the library from the bishop’s castle in Starogród. By the mid-19th century, the Pelplin library already held 10,000 volumes, and before World War II, 50,000; about half of them were lost or destroyed during the war. One of the most exceptional items in this collection is the Pelplin tablature: six volumes containing 857 instrumental, vocal, and vocal-instrumental pieces written in the New German organ tablature; all were recorded in tablature in the first half of the 17th century. This famous relic will now be digitized by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute and made available on the website of our project “Polish musical culture in a European perspective – sources and contexts” 👉 http://polish.musicsources.pl/ Read more on our website 👉 http://nauka.nifc.pl 👤 Featured in the video: Rev. Krystian Feddek, Director of the Kociewie Cultural Centre
On the profile · Mar 11, 2026