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Sadok Wincenty Barącz, known in Polish historiography as the historian of the Order of Preachers and the Armenians in Poland, was himself a descendant of Polish‑Armenians. Although he was brought up in the Armenian Catholic rite, he decided to follow the Roman Catholic priest and became a Dominican friar. His activity took place in the second half of the 19th century in various monasteries all over Galicia. Search for historical sources concerning his biography and historical work is a very difficult task, as they are scattered throughout archives and libraries in Poland and Ukraine. The author of this article made an attempt to determine their state of presentation. During the examination of Barącz’s legacy he was able to find many of his works in manuscript form, including previously unknown texts, the enormous correspondence (mostly letters received by Barącz) and the autobiography.
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The manuscript no. 3522 from the collection in Matenadaran, the Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts in Yerevan, was written as a textbook in the first half of the 17th century. It was meant to teach young Armenians living in Lwów (Kingdom of Poland) the tenets of Christian faith, as well as selected issues concerning ethics, logic and grammar. This trilingual book — written in Armenian, Kipchak and Polish — is a valuable source of information about forms of religious education in Polish‑Armenian schools and relationships between languages. The Armenian‑Kipchak part, being a subject of linguistic analysis, contains a Polish‑Armenian‑Kipchak glossary, paradigms and dialogues. The latter form the basis for the current edition, being collated with the original text, transcribed basing on a system used by the author and translated into Polish.
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The history of the Derszymonowic family, the descendants of Armenian priest Der Szymon, living in Łuck and Lwów, depicts a landmark in the life of Polish‑Armenians in the 17th century. In cultural context of a rapidly developing Old Polish city, various ethnic groups underwent the process of acculturation. The wealthy Armenian merchant community, with immigrant background and speaking the Kipchak ethnolect, remodeled its religious (the union with the Catholic church) and language self‑identification (Polonisation), and began to migrate further into the Polish territory. This fundamental restructuring of identity maintained important ethnic differences (the own Church rite and collective memory) merging them with Polish national consciousness (patriotism, spirit of citizenship). In this way Armenians became Armeno‑Poles (term coined by Józef Epifaniusz Minasowicz, the 18th century writer and polymath, a cousin to the Derszymonowic family).
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