Making copies of Making documents for the Princes Czartoryski Museum
The Past for the Future
Renovation and furnishing of the Princes Czartoryski Museum, the National Museum in Cracow, in order to make its unique collection available for the public.
This ambitious programme includes the development of a new way of presenting the museum’s collections. Artists and craftspeople were invited to work on this project. I also have the pleasure of being part of this noble milieu as a calligrapher and manuscript painter.
The Museum holds a unique collection of 44,338 old prints, loose maps, atlases, seal matrixes and dies, and parchment documents. Among them there are real gems of manuscript painting and extremely valuable documents. Copies of some of them are presented in the refurbished museum space.
Within the framework of the project, I was asked to make copies of some documents:
In the first stage, which lasted more than half-a-year and ended in December 2018, these were:
- A miniature, representing the Enthronement of a Polish king and a miniature showing the coronation of a king from Bishop Erazm Ciołek’s Pontifical, from the beginning of the 16th century,
- A parchment document confirming the Prussian Homage with four seals from 1525,
- A parchment diploma of the honorary citizenship of the City of Cracow granted to Władysław Czartoryski in 1880.
In the second stage, I am commissioned to make:
- A parchment document called the “Privilege of Jedlnia of 1430”.
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