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The collections of public life documents (commonly referred to as miscellanea or silva rerum) were one of the most popular types of manuscript books in the period of the „Noblemen’s Republic” (17th-18th centuries). In the Grand Duchy of Lithuania the biggest collections were created and stored in magnates’ courts, and single copies were produced and owned by the common nobility. The fall of the Lithuanian statehood at the end of the 18th century caused their outflow from the former territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithu- ania both to Polish and Russian (currently Ukrainian) libraries and archives. However, a considerable part of discussed documents has remained in Lithuania and is presently found primarily in Vilnius, mainly in the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences and the Lithuanian State Historical Archives (little more than 100 copies). They are a testimony to literary culture of the society inhabiting Lithuanian and Belorussian lands in the 17th-18th centuries and constitute an important source for the history of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
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Zbiory materiałów życia publicznego (potocznie zwane miscellanea lub silva rerum) to jedne z popularniejszych rodzajów książek rękopiśmiennych tworzonych w okresie Rzeczypospolitej szlacheckiej (XVII-XVIII w.). W Wielkim Księstwie Litewskim największe ich kolekcje powstawały i gromadzone były na dworach magnackich, a pojedyncze egzemplarze wychodziły spod pióra i znajdowały się w posiadaniu zwykłej szlachty. Upadek państwowości litewskiej pod koniec XVIII w. spowodował odpływ tych manuskryptów z terenów dawnego Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego zarówno do bibliotek i archiwów polskich, jak i rosyjskich (obecnie na Ukrainie). Duża część woluminów pozostała jednak na miejscu i obecnie znajduje się przede wszystkim w Wilnie, głównie w Bibliotece Litewskiej Akademii Nauk im. Wróblewskich i Litewskim Państwowym Archiwum Historycznym (razem nieco ponad 100 egzemplarzy). Są one świadectwem kultury piśmienniczej społeczeństwa ziem litewsko-białoruskich w XVII-XVIII w. oraz stanowią ważne źródło do badań nad historią dawnego Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego.
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In the 17th and the first half of the 18th century, manuscripts in Poland played a role nearly equal to that of print in promoting literary works and documents related to public life (political journalism, written newspapers, copies of speeches and letters by state dignitaries, copies of various official documents), in order both to inform the public and influence its opinion with regard to political events. This was accompanied by collections of such materials compiled at the instigation of and for the needs of private individuals. The collections varied considerably with regard to the selection and internal ordering of the documents as well as the appearance of the collections. This was a consequence of various motives behind the compilation of such collections and the functions they served. The least professional and systematic of them were the silva rerum manuscripts. This was connected to the nature of these manuscripts, which were also used to make various notes, copy fragments of works, recording management and medical advice, etc. In addition to the silva rerum sets, there were also collectors’ and documentary sets, compiled with a clear purpose of gathering and recording this type of materials. In some cases they took the form of multiple volume collections characterised by variety and richness of the material collected (hence the name miscellanea) and uneven level of editing. The most specialised form of manuscripts were thematic sets of source materials, with well thought-out contents and structure, and meticulous production. They had all the attributes of manuscript books, serving as source “publications” of sorts. The development of this type of source “publications” began in the late 17th century (e.g. collections of materials documenting the story of the 1696–1697 and 1733–1735 interregna) and continued during the reign of Stanislaw August Poniatowski (1764–1795).
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A lack of uniform methods in the processing of manuscripts in Polish libraries prompted efforts to formulate theoretical principles, a process that began in the early 20th century. The publication in 1955 of Wytyczne opracowania rękopisów w bibliotekach polskich [Guidelines to the processing of manuscripts in Polish libraries] made it possible to standardise the various elements of catalogue description and set the basic rules of processing manuscripts, although it did not eliminate all the problems. This often led to considerable differences in methods used in practice in the approach to manuscripts in the largest Polish libraries, which was reflected in numerous printed catalogues of manuscripts published from 1955 onwards. Problems concerned e.g. Manuscripts comprising loose materials which were combined into units, an approach that often had its roots in insufficient respect for the principles of archival provenance. When it came to the creation of catalogue descriptions, the most uniform rules were formulated with regard to correspondence, while in the other types of manuscripts (personal papers, collections of literary and historical materials, memoirs etc.) there were often considerable differences. They concerned primarily the level of detail in the description of the contents of the manuscripts. Considerable differences were also to be found in the rules for creating external descriptions, especially elements concerning the dimensions of the manuscripts and periods in which they originated. Nor was there any uniformity when it came to the rules of inventorying manuscripts, especially correspondence, and maintaining the integrity of legacies in manuscript catalogues.
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The paper discusses a part of manuscript collection of the Załuski Library in Warsaw related to developing, documenting and registering or aimed at influencing public life in the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth. The manuscript collections of the Załuski Library, amounting to about 11-13 000 units, were among the largest and most valuable in Poland up until being dispatched to Saint Petersburg in 1796; following their repossession by Poland after 1922, the vast majority of them (about 80%) were destroyed in 1944. Asthe old handwritten inventories were lost together with the collection, the paper is based on two printed selective catalogues of manuscripts, later inventory and catalogue records drawn up in Saint Petersburg as well as few reference works and other scientific studies. The number of public life documents held in the Załuski Library can be estimated at approximately 300-400 inventory units. The most important ones include Crown Chancellery official books and collections of records concerning administrative, fiscal and military matters of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Anumerous group of materials was represented by sejm diaries, collections of public life documents created by private initiative and for private use as well as official correspondence of Polish kings and state dignitaries
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Handwritten tradition of the Gliniany Rebellion, the seventeenth–eighteenth centuriesThe Rokosz gliniański (The rebellion of Gliniany) is one of the most popular political texts of the noble Commonwealth of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as is evidenced by the number of 189 copies I have established, including 177 that have still been preserved. The text describes a fictitious rebellion of the nobles that allegedly took place in 1379 near Gliniany, where the nobility was supposed to punish with death several or a dozen or so senators who had acted against the interests of Poland and the Polish nobility. Popularity of this text was caused by its ideological message, justifying the legal basis of the noble “Golden Freedom” and suggesting to the nobility the way to solve conflicts with the king and senators supporting him. Neither the actual circumstances of its composition nor its authorship are known. Since the eighteenth century on, it has been assumed in the literature on the subject that the text was written during the so-called Zebrzydowski’s Rebellion of 1606–1608. An analysis of political writings circulating at that time reveals that the myth of the old rebellion of Gliniany was very popular in the period, but no copy has been found that could be dated to the early seventeenth century without reservations. The oldest preserved copies of the Rokosz gliniański could be dated to the 1630s and 1640s at the earliest. An analysis of the occurrence of this text in various collections of public life material from the seventeenth and eighteenth century (manuscripts of the miscellanea and silva rerum types) made it possible to present trends in its popularisation – the apogee of its popularity was in the time of King August II (1697–1733), and its twilight – in the final years of the Commonwealth (1772–1795). An analysis of its textual variations revealed also a dominant importance of the text circulation in handwritten copies. And although under the Saxon kings (1707–1763) the Rokosz gliniański was printed four times, from among ca. 65 analysed eighteenth-century copies only five were made from the printed version. Despite the handwritten copying, the text of the Rokosz gliniański preserved its integrity for 150 years, with changes introduced only to its style and proper names.
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The most important types of handwritten books in Poland in the 17th–18th centuries were collections of public life materials documenting important political events. Such events in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth included interregna, lasting from the death of a king to the election of his successor and marked by great intensification of political life. The collections documenting interregna, usually entitled Acta interregnorum, contained both official and private documents, including correspondence of state dignitaries, political writings, resolutions of senate councils, regional assemblies and the parliament as well as parliamentary diaries. Such collections were compiled for the interregna of 1632, 1696–1697 and 1733, with the collection for the 1632 interregnum appearing in two different editions. With the exception of the 1632 interregnum documents,edited by Jakub Sobieski, they appeared in versions differing in terms of the selection and arrangement of their contents, but the differences between the collections were not substantial and did not change the fundamental concepts of such works. The author has identified a total of 45 copies of interregnum files, with the most substantial being the files for the 1733 interregnum and the civil war of 1734–1736 which ensued as a result of the interregnum. The Acta interregnorum were disseminated through copying of the various compilations; they were also commissioned, that it compiled in an organised manner. Unfortunately, with the exception of the collection edited by Jakub Sobieski, we do not know their authors, but the most important role was probably played here by officials associated with the Primates of Poland — Archbishops of Gniezno, who, acting as “interreges”, were in charge of the state’s policy during the interregna.
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