On June 23, Prof. Jerzy Perzanowski presented the NCU Library with a precious gift, Aristotle's Organon. Aristotle's writings on logic compiled by Boethius Anicius Manlius Severinus, pressed in the Venetian printing office of Francesco Portonari in 1567, also include graphs and woodcut initials.
Presentation of the book to the Library by Prof. Jerzy Perzanowski:
Dr Miroslaw Supruniuk On the sands of Torun, the great exiles from Vilnius and Lviv planted the trees of knowledge and affection for wisdom. The fruits of their planting nourish new generations of Polish women and men. One of the great exiles was Professor Tadeusz Czezowski, whose contribution to Poland and the Vilnius country, to Vilnius and Torun, and finally the Nicolaus Copernicus University are beyond all praise. Most significantly, he rescued the main part of the Philosophical Seminar Library of the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius, which he supplemented with books saved from philosophy collections scattered in and around Torun. Let us recall that, in his speech acknowledging the University for granting him an honourary doctorate degree, Professor Czezowski donated the NCU Library his private book collection. The most valuable item in his collection, the 1567 Venetian printing of Aristotle's Organon, containing writings on logic, was deposited in the safe of the Department of Logic for 50 years. After Professor's passing, for the past 24 years, Organon was under the care of Professors Leon Gumanski and Jerzy Perzanowski, the former heads of the Department of Logic. Leaving the University, I wish to hand this precious work over to the NCU Library. I trust that it remains an institution of the fading Vilnius-Torun university. Hence, it is the right place for storing the last gift of Professor Czezowski's to this University, to Our University. May this work continue to serve the entire Universitas Torunensis. May it remind us of Professor Tadeusz Czezowski, his service to the University and the country. May it be a reminder of what he represented.
Thanking for the gift, Dr. Miroslaw A. Supruniuk, the University Library Director, said:
Dear Professor Jerzy Perzanowski, Please accept these words of gratitude for presenting the University Library with this wonderful and valuable item from the collection of Professor Tadeusz Czezowski Aristole's Organon, compiled by Boethius Anicius Manlius Severinus, published in 1567, in Venice, at the printing office of Francesco Portonari. It is a wonderful gift. The book, earlier absent from our collection, an unusually rare item in Poland in general, will enhance the collection of the rarest books, the old prints. It will serve research in Torun and Poland. |
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