“A Description of Antique Objects in Churches and Cemetries in the Deaneries of Zwinogród, Radomyśl, and Biała Cerkiew” in the Collection of Alexander Czołowski in the National Library

The edition is a presentation of antique objects in churches, chapels and cemeteries in the in the deaneries of Zwinogród, Radomyśl, and Biała Cerkiew of the former Roman-Catholic diocese of Żytomierz (today’s diocese of Kiev-Zhytomir in Ukraine) which was written by two anonymous authors between 1890 and 1894. The manuscript of these descriptions, unanalyzed by scholars as yet, found its way to the collection of a Lvov historicist and archivist Alexander Czołowski (1865-1944). A short time before his death the collection was evacuated by him from Lvov to Tyniec and subsequently sold to the National Library in Warsaw (sign 5705 II) by his daughter in 1947. The manuscript contains fairly succinct descriptions of sacral objects and cemeteries (the majority of which are nonexistent or ruined now) in Zwinogródka, Talne, Wodzianiki, Tołsta, Łysianka, Koszowata, Taraszcza, Brusiłów, Biała Cerkiew, and Didowszczyzna as well as close to 300 transcripts of inscriptions from tombstones, epitaphs, and commemorative plaques from these places that belong to the Chojecki family, Olga Naryszkin née Potocka, general-major of artillery Piotr Olszewski, author Robert Stanisławski, professor of medicine Bronisław Chojnowski, physician, amateur geographer and sculptor Adolf Rykman, and others.