Lietuvos mokslų akademijos Vrublevskių bibliotekoje saugomi kunigo Pranciškaus Tičkovskio
rankraščiai, knygos, grafikos kūriniai ir ekslibrisai, senienos ir dantiraščiai, taip pat laiškai ir atvirukai, kurie
XX a. ketvirtajame dešimtmetyje buvo atiduoti Vrublevskių bibliotekai. Devintajame dešimtmetyje iš nemažos
kolekcijos ir asmeninio archyvo dalies, išsaugotos Bibliotekos Rankraščių skyriuje, buvo suformuotas
Pranciškaus Tičkovskio fondas (F147). Tačiau kita kolekcijos dalis, apie kurią žinoma iš pavienių spaudinių
ir grafikos kūrinių, dar nėra mums pažįstama. Straipsnio tikslas yra aptarti P. Tičkovskio kolekciją, surinktą
skirtingais gyvenimo laikotarpiais, atskleisti šios kolekcijos ir archyvo ryšį.
Esminiai žodžiai: Lietuvos mokslų akademijos Vrublevskių biblioteka; Pranciškus Tičkovskis; kolekcija;
asmeninis archyvas.
Keywords: The Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences; Franciszek Tyczkowski; collection;
private archive.
The Rare Book Department in the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences is home to
the collection of Father Franciszek Tyczkowski (1891–1982), which features manuscripts, books, graphic
art prints, bookplates, a collection of antiquities and a set of unique cuneiform tablets. Father Tyczkowski
donated this collection and his personal archive to the Wroblewski Library, which had been founded in
the early 20th century and opened to public in 1935. At that point there was not enough time to establish
a proper Tyczkowski collection, and the latter was formed only in the eighties based on manuscripts and
other documents which had fallen into the holdings of the Manuscript Department. The rest of the collection,
whose existense may be deduced from individual publications and art prints, was split among different
other collections and so is not always easily recognizable by researchers.
Based on archival evidence, the article aims to characterize the Tyczkowski collection amassed and handed
over to the library in the period from the second to the fourth decade of the 20th century, according special
attention to chronological issues. The article also addresses the relation of this diverse collection to the
Tyczkowski archive.
Tyczkowski started collecting at a young age. Research shows a particular importance of his archive’s different
sub-collections. They are likely tied to different periods in the collector’s life: to his studies at the
University of Warsaw, and then, in the third decade, at the Pontifical Biblical Institute; to the St Archangel
Michael Church at the Vilnius Bernardine Monastery, where he was rector until the mid-thirties; to the
Akmenynė estate (the present Šalčininkai district) owned by the Reniger family and the construction of
St. Therese of the Child Jesus Church in the late twenties.
Acquired by Tyczkowski over the thirties, his bookplates make a separate sub-collection. Both the latter
and a majority of letters addressed to Tyczkowski are a testimony to an active exchange of bookplates he
maintained with collectors from Vilnius and Kaunas, from Warsaw and other Polish cities; as well as from
Italy, Latvia, Portugal and other countries.
