Dawid Kuriański’s Blog Post
By Dawid Kuriański | 02/2026
My name is Dawid Kuriański and I am a staff member in the Department of Manuscripts at the University Library in Wrocław. Thanks to the PAMELA Project, I had the opportunity to spend a month (February 2026) at the Augustinian Canons’ Library in Klosterneuburg.
During my time there, I worked within the OLIM project, which focuses on analysing former shelfmarks in manuscripts and early printed books. My main task consisted of adding and recording data related to these historical shelfmarks.
PAMELA 8 February – 8 March 2026
By Maria Theisen | 02-03/2026
He Had No PAMELA: An Iter Austriacum,
125 Years Later
By Jakub Kozák | 01-02/2026
A hundred and twenty-five years ago, in Bulletin of the Czech Academy of Emperor Franz Joseph for Sciences, Letters, and Arts, right after a snoozefest on inorganic chemistry and before another on “animal respirometry and calorimetry”, Isidor Theodor Zahradník, a Premonstratensian canon and librarian at Strahov, who would later become Czechoslovakia’s railway minister, published an article with a title of modest pretension, Iter Austriacum.1 He opens: “Desiring to acquire the experience necessary for the librarian’s office, I set out in the autumn of the year 1900 upon a study journey through sundry monastic libraries in Cisleithania.” His first stop was Klosterneuburg, the library of Augustinian Canons some ten kilometres upstream of Vienna on the Danube.
