Kraków A digital archive of the Archdiocese of Kraków is being created
Files, documents, entries from books – including these documents Documents in the emerging Digital Archdiocese of Krakow. The web portal is expected to be ready by the end of this year, but you are already using some of the scanned and shared materials.
The website is created by the inventory and digitization studio of monuments at the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow. Some of the materials from the archives of the Krakow metropolitan curia, as well as the archives of the Lviv Archdiocese, are already available at: caak.upjp2.edu.pl.
You can find there files of bishop’s visitations, as well as consistory books from the Old Polish period, containing combined content – archbishop and general of the diocese. On the other hand, in the place where the act appears, the official situation begins, in which the Krakow court officials are to take place. On the website you can also find the episcopalia files, i.e. the bishop’s files, as well as the libri of ordination, in which customary rights were registered.
“One of the richest Polish sources describing life in the diocese of Krakow from the beginning of the 15th century is kept.”
On the other hand, the funds obtained from the Lviv Archdiocese and Lviv were granted for “scientific description of not only life in Eastern Galicia, but also the restoration of the condition of its inhabitants”.
“Documents regarding the prohibition of reporting, administrative, cultural and scientific information about research outside Poland,” the university reported.
There are also records from the Bielsko-Żywiec diocese, Main Polish record books, the archives of which are those from the 1720s.
The university said it is ending with current wants that new to existing materials.
“For three years, more than half a million of the highest quality quality will be retained, and then added to the website” – emphasized the university.
Creating an archive of an archive to be a response to the growing interest in this type of material, because it is usually limited due to the poor condition of documents. (PAP)
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