zwojów

Zwojów is the genitive plural form of the Polish noun zwoj, which denotes a rolled manuscript or parchment. The basic form zwoj refers to a scroll—a length of parchment or other writing material rolled for storage or transport. Historically, zwoje were used across medieval and early modern Europe, including Polish lands, for liturgical, legal, and literary texts. They varied in size and format, ranging from small, portable scrolls to longer sheets bound into rolled codices. In paleography and manuscript studies, zwoje provide important evidence about material culture, scribal practices, and textual transmission.

In modern Polish, zwoj as a common noun is largely literary or archival; the form zwojów appears in phrases describing multiple scrolls, such as zawartość zwojów (contents of the scrolls) or opis zwojów (description of the scrolls). The term is of antiquity, with roots in older Slavic languages; cognates appear in neighboring languages with similar meanings. While the word zwojów is primarily found in historical or scholarly writing, it continues to appear in discussions of manuscript culture, archives, and medieval studies.

Note that the Polish plural zwoje corresponds to the nominative plural for zwoj, while zwojów is the genitive plural, used to denote possession or description of multiple scrolls.