Old Polish Studies. A book in honor of Aleksander Brückner [1928].

Krakow 1928, published by Krakow Publishing Company. 15.5x23.5 cm, pp. IX, 793, half cloth bookbinding, publisher's cover preserved. Good condition (single minor stains, delicate rubbing of binding).

Book dedicated to literary historian Aleksander Brückner(1856-1939) on the 70th anniversary of his birth. Contents include: Family and state in primitive Poland (K. Tymieniecki). Primitive Mazovia and the issue of Polish strains (E. Kucharski). Unknown texts of the Magdeburg ortyls (S. Estreicher). The origins of preventive censorship in the Roman Catholic Church and in Poland (Rev. J. Fijałek). The legal relationship of the Jagiellonian Library to the Jagiellonian University in Cracow until 1918 (S. Kutrzeba). Pilkalnie in Lithuania (L. Krzywicki). Tradition as a historical source (K. Chodynicki). The devil in the beliefs of the Polish people (A. Fischer). Notes on the Polish language in Górnicki's "Dworzanin" (R. Pollak). Cultural patronage in Poland (S. Lempicki). Contributions to the history of medieval Polish culture from the Szczyrzycki manuscript (K. Dobrowolski). On the margin of the "Monitor" (B. Gubrynowicz). Krasiciana (L. Bernacki). Voronicz's messianic idea (I. Chrzanowski). From Romanian traditions about John III Sobieski (S. Wędkiewicz). Bibliography of the works of Aleksander Brückner(W. T. Wisłocki).