Lietuvos MA Vrublevskių bibliotekoje esantis 1804 m. Prūsijos karalystės žemėlapis išsiskiria rankraštiniu įrašu, nurodančiu, kad jis paimtas iš 1807 m. Frydlando mūšyje žuvusio rusų karininko. Jame esanti lenkų kariuomenės 12-ojo pėstininkų pulko vado, būsimo generolo Jano Veisenhofo (Jan Weyssenhoff, 1774–1848) proveniencija bei jo biografijos faktai leido nustatyti, kaip šis žemėlapis atsidūrė jo rinkinyje. Minėto generolo kolekcijos rinkinio paveldėtojo, literato Juzefo Veisenhofo ( Józef Weyssenhoff, 1860–1932) laiškai Lietuvos MA bibliotekos įkūrėjui Tadui Vrublevskui padėjo patikslinti šio žemėlapio, kaip ir nemažos dalies Veisenhofų knygų ir žemėlapių rinkinio, patekimo į T. Vrublevskio rinkinį (tuo pačiu ir į Biblioteką) aplinkybes. Pasakojimas apie šio išskirtinio žemėlapio istorinį kelią bus ir naujai kuriamame Lietuvos knygos ir mokslo minties muziejuje Bibliopolis.
A map of the Kingdom of Prussia entitled Generalkarte vom Königreich Preussen (Nürnberg, 1804) and held by the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences is notable for a handwritten inscription indicating that it was taken from a Russian officer killed in the Battle of Friedland in 1807. The provenance from the Colonel of the 12th Infantry Regiment of the Polish Army, the future General Jan Weyssenhoff (1774–1848), and facts of the latter’s biography made it possible to determine how this map came to his personal collection. The general, who was born and raised at the Andzelmuiža estate in the Rēzekne county (present-day Latvia) and spent most of his life in Poland at the Samoklęski estate near Lublin purchased in 1824 from the Czartoryskis, had an heir, the writer Józef Weyssenhoff (1860–1932). The letters from the latter to the founder of the Wroblewski Library, Tadeusz Wróblewski, were of assistance in clarifying how this map and a considerable part of Weyssenhoffs’ collection of books and maps came to be in Wróblewski’s personal library, which later became a public library. Those books in the holdings of the Wroblewski Library that were formerly owned by the Weyssenhoffs can be identified by bookplates and handwritten inscriptions – the both Weyssenhoffs, the General and the writer, marked their books with ownership marks. The history of the Weyssenhoff family is also closely related to Lithuania. For several centuries (from 1768 to World War I) they had owned the Jūžintai (later, Tarnava) estate. The history of the 1804 map of Prussia will also be presented at Bibliopolis, the Museum of the Lithuanian Book and Scholarly Thought currently under development.
