Spuścizna rękopiśmienna ks. Jana Ambrożego Wadowskiego w Bibliotece Naukowej PAU i PAN w Krakowie

Rev. Jan Ambroży Wadowski (1839-1907) was a Dominican. In 1866 he became a secular priest working in Włocławek, and from 1877 in the Diocese of Lublin and Lublin itself. He was not only a priest but also a historian dealing mainly with the history of the Church. For decades, he made copies of archival materials of interest to him, he made excerpts and notes useful in his work. He also collected original documents of historical value. He did not publish much, but the works which were published by him were significant, among other things, Kościoły lubelskie (Churches of Lublin) and Anacephaleosis professorum Academiae Zamoscensis. His numerous manuscripts were placed at the Academy of Learning in Cracow in 1909 as Antoni Wadowski’s gift. Currently, they are stored in the Scientific Library of the Polish Academy of Learning and the Polish Academy of Sciences in Cracow. His collection includes a total of 90 catalogue numbers in 100 volumes. Most of this heritage was described in catalogues printed in the 1960s and 1970s. And the remainder part, recently discovered, was catalogued in 2012. Rev. Wadowski’s manuscripts include, among other things, materials for the history of various churches and monasteries in Lublin, Zamość and other places in the Diocese of Lublin and Chełm; biographical materials; various records of political and economic content. He used some information from those materials for his publications. Given the fact that during the First and the Second World War a number of documents were lost, Rev. Wadowski’s legacy is an invaluable source on the history of the Church on Polish soil.