Two books, Aurorae solis Sarmatici (The Dawn of the Sarmatian Sun) and Signatores by Adam Naramowski (1686–1736), a doctor of liberal sciences and philosophy at Vilnius University, are bound together. This is a short history of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and a list of its most senior officials with short biographies of them. An inscription at the beginning of the book shows that the book, which had been in the library of Aleksander Antoni Sapieha (1773–1812), was given in 1840 to the Warsaw Society of Friends of Learning, of which Sapieha was a member. Sapieha was an aide-de-camp to Napoleon Bonaparte, but he also made his mark as a scientist (he was a mineralogist and ethnographer). He inherited the Sapieha family library at Kodeń and continued to build it up.
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ARS LIBRI (2022). Compiler Algimantas Muzikevičius, text authors Algimantas Muzikevičius, Rolandas Gustaitis
