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Nomination Form International Memory of the World Register Nomination form International Memory of the World Register 1.0 Checklist Nominees may find the following checklist useful before sending the nomination form to the International Memory of the World Secretariat. The information provided in italics on the form is there for guidance only and should be deleted once the sections have been completed. Summary completed (section 1) Nomination and contact details completed (section 2) Declaration of Authority signed and dated (section 2) If this is a joint nomination, section 2 appropriately modified, and all Declarations of Authority obtained Documentary heritage identified (sections 3.1 – 3.3) History/provenance completed (section 3.4) Bibliography completed (section 3.5) Names, qualifications and contact details of up to three independent people or organizations recorded (section 3.6) Details of owner completed (section 4.1) Details of custodian – if different from owner – completed (section 4.2) Details of legal status completed (section 4.3) Details of accessibility completed (section 4.4) Details of copyright status completed (section 4.5) Evidence presented to support fulfilment of the criteria? (section 5) Additional information provided (section 6) Details of consultation with stakeholders completed (section 7) Assessment of risk completed (section 8) Summary of Preservation and Access Management Plan completed. If there is no formal Plan attach details about current and/or planned access, storage and custody arrangements (section 9) Any other information provided – if applicable (section 10) Suitable reproduction quality photographs identified to illustrate the documentary heritage. (300dpi, jpg format, full-colour preferred). Copyright permissions forms signed and attached. Agreement to propose item(s) for inclusion on the World Digital Library if inscribed 1 Nomination form International Memory of the World Register The Act of the Union of Lublin document title of item being proposed ID Code [Internal use only] 1.0 Summary (max 200 words) Give a brief description of the documentary heritage being nominated and the reasons for proposing it. The act of the Union of Lublin of 1569 is a unique testimony to establishing, in early modern age, by means of negotiations and free agreement, of the Commonwealth of two equal states: the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The Union’s importance consisted not only in the lasting character, political power and civilizational attractiveness of thus created Commonwealth. It was no less due to the very uniqueness, as for its time, of the adopted solution and of the active, decisive political role played by the parliament in the Union’s negotiation and adoption process. Stemming from traditions of multicultural, multi-ethnic Jagiellonian monarchy and previous Polish-Lithuanian unions, as well as intellectual backgrounds of the republican Rome’s tradition and the Renaissance, the Union of Lublin significantly strengthened the civic, republican and democratic attitudes in political practice and thought of its time. The act of the Union agreed between the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at the Sejm (state parliament) meeting in Lublin, on 1 July 1569, constituted one of the legal foundations of the Commonwealth, called also Res Publica (Republic); another one was the Henrician Articles, which included the Warsaw Confederation of 1573. This is the “shop window” of your nomination and is best written last! It should contain all the essential points you want to make, so that anyone reading it can understand your case even if they do not read the rest of your nomination. 2.0 Nominator 2.1 Name of nominator (person or organization) The Central Archives of Historical Records 2.2 Relationship to the nominated documentary heritage National archival resource, stored in the Central Archives of Historical Records in accordance with law in force. 2.3 Contact person(s) (to provide information on nomination) Hubert Wajs PhD, the Head of the Central Archives of Historical Records 2.4 Contact details Name Address The Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw (CAHR) 00-263 Warszawa Archiwum Główne Akt Dawnych (AGAD) ul. Długa 7 Hubert Wajs PhD, the Head of the Central Polska, Poland Archives of Historical Records Telephone Facsimile Email 48 22 831 15 25 48 22 831 16 08 [email protected] 2 2.5 Declaration of authority I certify that I have the authority to nominate the documentary heritage described in this document to the International Memory of the World Register. Signature HUBERT WAJS PhD Full name (Please PRINT) The Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw Institution(s), if appropriate Date 30 May 2016 ANDRZEJ BIERNAT PhD Full name (Please PRINT) Secretary of Polish Committee of UNESCO Memory of the World Program on behalf of all co-nominators Institution(s), if appropriate Date 30 May 2016 3.0 Identity and description of the documentary heritage 3.1 Name and identification details of the items being nominated If inscribed, the exact title and institution(s) to appear on the certificate should be given In this part of the form you must describe the document or collection in sufficient detail to make clear precisely what you are nominating. Any collection must be finite (with beginning and end dates) and closed. The Union of Lublin(1569) The Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw, Poland 3.4 History/provenance Describe what you know of the history of the collection or document. Your knowledge may not be complete, but give the best description you can. The document of the Union of Lublin that survived until today was designed for the Crown estates. Therefore, it was placed in the document archive of the Kingdom of Poland, known as the Cracow Crown Archive from the place of its keeping – in the Wawel Royal Castle in Kraków (it belonged to the Archive’s Lituaniae section). General state documents were kept there: general privileges (e.g. the General Warsaw Confederation of 1573 [Collection of Parchment Records, catalogue no. 4467], entered into the International Memory of the World Register in 2003), pacts, unions, assertions of rights; including an office copy of Łaski's Statute of 1506 [Collection of Parchment Records, catalogue no. 5632], i.e. the printed list of all the statutes and charters in force in the Kingdom of Poland, as well as documents concerning particular provinces, countries and lands associated with the state. In 1765, the Cracow Crown Archive was moved to Warsaw. After the 3rd partition of Poland (1795), it was moved to St Petersburg together with other archival materials of the highest authorities of the Polish- Lithuanian Commonwealth. At first, it was kept in the Governing Senate’s archive, and then in the manuscript section of the Imperial Public Library. It returned to Poland after World War I, under a peace treaty signed by the re-born Polish state with Russia in Riga in 1921. It was placed in the Central Archives of Historical Records (CAHR) and included in the Parchment Document Collection. By analogy, the Crown estates issued the document for Lithuanian estates, now considered lost, that was placed in the document archive of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and during the Russo-Polish War of 1654-1667, it was acquired by one of the most important Lithuanian noble families, the Radziwiłłs 3 (at the beginning of this period, Albrycht Stanisław Radziwiłł was the Grand Lithuanian Chancellor, and contributed to the documents from the Grand Dukes’ of Lithuania archive from falling into Tsarist hands later, in the 18th century, during the partitions of Poland). The document then shared the fate of other Radziwił archival materials – after being transported to Warsaw in 1920, it went missing during World War II. Since the Union of Lublin act bears numerous seals, its mobility is extremely limited. Due to this, King Sigismund II Augustus issued its duplicates (vidimuses) in the form of parchment documents bearing a royal seal. One such vidimus from the Zamoyskis’ Archive and four from the Radziwiłłs’ Archive still exist in the CAHR [Collection of Parchment Records, catalogue no. 6914 - AZ, 8430-8433 – AR]; in the past, there must have been more of them. 4.0 Legal information 4.1 Owner of the documentary heritage (name and contact details) Name Address The Central Archives of 00-263 Warszawa Historical Records, ul. Długa 7 Hubert Wajs PhD, Director Telephone Facsimile Email 48 22 831 15 25 48 22 831 16 08 [email protected] 4.2 Custodian of the documentary heritage (name and contact details if different from the owner) Name Address Michał Kulecki PhD 00-263 Warszawa ul. Długa 7 Telephone Facsimile Email 48 22 831 54 91 48 22 831 16 08 [email protected] wew. 43 4.3 Legal status chyba, że jest gov? [Zacytowałem powyżej] Provide details of legal and administrative responsibility for the preservation of the documentary heritage The whole of the archival holdings in Poland is owned by the State Treasury. Administrative responsibility - protection of the state archival resource (Act from 14 July 1983 on the State Archival Resource and Archives) – is in the general responsibility of the Head Office of State Archive and the current keeper – the Central Archives of Historical Records, as a representative of the Treasury. 4.4 Accessibility Describe how the item(s) / collection may be accessed In the Reading Room of the Central Archives of Historical Records, which is opened to the general public from 9.00 a.m. till 7.00 p.m. from Monday till Friday. Access to the original charter is restricted to the special exhibitions in the Central Archives of Historical Records due to the vulnerability of the parchment and 78 seals. The charter and the seals (each seal separately – resolution 300 dip, tiff) have been scanned and are available on computer screen in the CAHR Reading Room for the detailed study.
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