Jagiellonian Library is one of the largest and most famous libraries in Poland; over its history it has received many donations and inherited many private collections.

Its collection contains 1,503,178 volumes of monographs, 557,199 volumes of periodicals, 104,012 early printed books, 3,586 incunabula, 24,258 manuscripts, 12,819 maps, 35,105 music scores, and 77,336 microforms.
Among its music scores are many of Mozart's original autographs.

Notable rare books owned by the library include:
15th century copy of Bogurodzica
Jan Długosz – Banderia Prutenorum
Balthasar Behem Codex
Paulus Paulirini de Praga – Liber viginti artium
Nicolaus Copernicus – manuscript of De revolutionibus, and printed editions
Rembrandt van Rijn – Faust
Frédéric Chopin – Scherzo (E-dur)
Stanisław Moniuszko – Trzeci śpiewnik domowy.
Muzyka wokalna z towarzyszeniem fortepianu
Stanisław Wyspiański – Wesele.
Dramat w 3 aktach
Ignacy Jan Paderewski – Stara Suita
In the 1990s several priceless books were stolen from the library, presumably in order to be sold in the West.
In 1999 works of Galileo, Johannes Kepler and Basilius Bessarion were stolen; some were recovered from an auction in the German auction house Reiss&Sohn.
Jagiellonian Library is one of the largest and most famous libraries in Poland; over its history it has received many donations and inherited many private collections.
Its collection contains 1,503,178 volumes of monographs, 557,199 volumes of periodicals, 104,012 early printed books, 3,586 incunabula, 24,258 manuscripts, 12,819 maps, 35,105 music scores, and 77,336 microforms. Among its music scores are many of Mozart's original autographs.
Notable rare books owned by the library include:
15th century copy of Bogurodzica
Jan Długosz – Banderia Prutenorum
Balthasar Behem Codex
Paulus Paulirini de Praga – Liber viginti artium
Nicolaus Copernicus – manuscript of De revolutionibus, and printed editions
Rembrandt van Rijn – Faust
Frédéric Chopin – Scherzo (E-dur)
Stanisław Moniuszko – Trzeci śpiewnik domowy. Muzyka wokalna z towarzyszeniem fortepianu
Stanisław Wyspiański – Wesele. Dramat w 3 aktach
Ignacy Jan Paderewski – Stara Suita
In the 1990s several priceless books were stolen from the library, presumably in order to be sold in the West. In 1999 works of Galileo, Johannes Kepler and Basilius Bessarion were stolen; some were recovered from an auction in the German auction house Reiss&Sohn.
Jagiellonian Library