English: In the 17th century owned by Sebastian Kokwiński, conon of Sandomierz. Later passed to the Royal University of Warsaw. Confiscated in 1831 after collapse of the November Uprising by the Russian authorities and incorporated into the Imperial Library in Saint Petersburg, returned to Poland in 1921. Burned deliberately by the Germans in October 1944 during the Planned destruction of Warsaw.[1]
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"Catalogue of stolen and missing cultural achievements" / comp. Jan Świeczyński; Ośrodek Informacyjno-Koordynacyjny Ochrony Obiektów Muzealnych. Warsaw 1988 Editor: Wojciech Jaskulski, Piotr Ogrodzki.
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↑ Rebecca Knuth (2006). Burning books and leveling libraries: extremist violence and cultural destruction, p. 166. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN02-75990-07-9
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