The Autograph Collection (Sammlung Autographa) is one of the largest components of the Berlin Collections.

It comprises approximately 220,000 items in over a dozen languages, created by more than 17,000 individuals. The manuscripts — primarily letters, literary works or their fragments, as well as historical documents — date from the fifteenth to the early twentieth century. Among their authors are mostly intellectuals, politicians, scholars, and artists whose work had a significant impact on European culture and scholarship.

At the Jagiellonian Library, 196 boxes are preserved, in which manuscript units are arranged alphabetically by authors’ surnames: from A to Hirzel and from Kromayer to Z. In addition, separate boxes contain manuscripts by Alexander, Wilhelm, and Caroline von Humboldt, as well as by Paul Heyse and Heinrich von Kleist.