Freight. Ten most valuable items in the...

Selection of just 10 out of over one million items collected at the Gdańsk Library is an extremely difficult task. What criteria to choose? What should be given priority: uniqueness, artistic value or perhaps scientific significance? The items we have chosen seem to more than satisfy all the above requirements they are spectacular in every respect. They astonish with their artistry, are unique sources for researchers and reflect the state of knowledge of the past epochs; above all, they have a distinguished Gdańsk provenance and concern the city itself.

Zofia Tylewska-Ostrowska