Materiały do dziejów klasztorów w zasobie Archiwum Państwowego w Bydgoszczy

Abstrakt

In the area covered by the activity of the National Archive in Bydgoszcz during the Old-Polish period there were thirty monasteries and convents. The storage of the Bydgoszcz institution features archives of 21 monasteries. They include monasteries of the Bernardines, Jesuits, Carmelites and the Poor Clare Sisters in Bydgoszcz. In addition to this archive, it collects archives of the Dominican monasteries in Brześć Kujawski and Żnin, the Augustinians of Chojnice and Łobżenica-Górka Klasztorna, the Franciscan monastery of Inowrocław, the Carmelite monasteries in Kcynia and Markowice, the Reformati monasteries in Łabiszyn and Pakość, the Bernardine monasteries in Łobżenica and Nowe, the Pauline monastery in Topolno, the monastery of the Canons Regular in Trzemeszno and Wysoka, and the Cistercian monastery of Koronowo. The oldest documents have been preserved in the archives of the Benedictine monastery in Mogilno (1179) and the convent of the Norbertine Sisters in Strzelno (1193). The monastery records kept in the Archive feature some very valuable old documents. The majority of them were made on parchment, i.e. dressed leather, using goatskin, lambskin and calfskin. Later documents were written on handmade paper. Parchment documents (royal, ducal, papal, clerical) or paper documents were frequently accompanied with wax seals or embossed seals pressed through paper. The authors present a brief history of the mentioned religious orders and contents of the archives preserved. They also describe other archival records regarding the mentioned orders.