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The paper analyses the largest Polish mediaeval apocrypha, Rozmyślanie przemyskie. Using this example, the author shows the difficulty of formulating general judgments about mediaeval texts with a multilayered structure. The differences between the subsequent versions of the text prove to be rather large in the case of Rozmyślanie przemyskie. For this reason, even the assignment of the monument’s language to a specific dialectal base may apply to no more than a single layer of the text and, as a result, Red Ruthenian features may be found to co-appear with Lesser Polish ones. The author proposes that Rozmyślanie przemyskie displays both the vestiges of the original structure of the text, and traits of a new structure introduced by the last copyist. It is him who gave a title to the text, divided it in two, and added a considerable part of section titles. Therefore, we need to revise our current view that the last copyist was responsible for no more than the introduction of multiple mistakes into the text, and for incorporating into it the voice that was originally located in the margins and between the lines.
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The author provides an answer to the question why Old Polish texts, especially mediaeval ones, constitute a separate subject of study. Primarily, he draws attention to the kinds of problems connected with the reading of those texts (e.g. identification of functional expressions), and with the various manifestations of multilayeredness. How to study such texts? The author suggests that the existing palette of methods be complemented with selected tools developed by modern textology, which so far have only sporadically been employed in the research of the oldest Polish texts. Meanwhile, their use makes possible a precise description and analysis, taking into account the multilayeredness and the traces of the work of many scribes, sometimes so large that they modify the arrengement of intentions and functions of the text. The author uses the example of Rozmyślanie przemyskie and other texts to show the complexity of such problems as the address of the text, its cohesion, continuity, and comprehensiveness – qualities that are only revealed when appropriate assumptions are made and adequate descriptive tools used.
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Zaprezentowane w artykule analizy przynoszą dowód na obecną już w nauce tezę, że znaczna część tytułów w „Rozmyślaniu przemyskim" pojawiła się w tym tekście w drodze jego kolejnych przekształceń i uzupełnień. Autorzy wskazali oprócz licznych argumentów lingwistycznych także zbiór poszlak innej natury: źródłoznawczych i tekstologicznych. Inkorporacja tytułów do tekstu „Rozmyślania przemyskiego" była zjawiskiem w tym tekście powszechnym, najczęściej polegała na wciągnięciu do tekstu notatek marginalnych, wpisanych tam zapewne po to, by łatwiej przeszukiwać ten ogromny tekst. Geneza części z nich polegała na wybraniu z tekstu reprezentacyjnego dla treści fragmentu i umieszczeniu go w postaci niezmienionej lub jego parafrazy na marginesie, skąd po kolejnych przekształceniach trafiał on z powrotem do tekstu. Artykuł uświadamia, jak specyficznym i odrębnym obiektem badań jest tekst staropolski, zwłaszcza wielowarstwowy. Tytuły w nim nie są funkcjonującym samodzielnie komunikatem pozostającym w wyłącznie symbolicznym związku z tekstem, nie muszą pochodzić od autora, mogą tekst dezintegrować, mogą też pozostawać z nim w związku nie tylko treściowym, ale i składniowym. Autorzy pokazują, że tylko łączne stosowanie narzędzi z wielu dziedzin (językoznawstwa, źródłoznawstwa, tekstologii, teologii) może przybliżać nas do coraz precyzyjniejszego opisu procesu twórczego, którego końcowym efektem jest taki tekst.
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Analyses presented in the article prove the thesis, already present in science, that a significant part of titles in The Przemysl Meditation appeared in the text through its successive transformations and additions. The authors found, besides numerous linguistic arguments, also a lot of evidence of a different nature: source studies and textology. The incorporation of titles into The Przemysl Meditation was a common phenomenon in the text, the most common one was merging marginal notes into the text, left there presumably in order to make searching this huge text easier. The genesis of some of them was selecting a fragment from the text, representative of the content, and placing it unchanged or paraphrased on the margin from where, after successive transformations, it got back to text. The article brings to our attention the fact that an Old Polish text is a peculiar and distinct object of study, especially a multilayered one. Titles in such texts are not an independently functioning message in exclusively symbolic connection with the text, they do not have to come from the author, they may disintegrate the text or may remain with it in a relationship not only of content but also of syntax. The authors demonstrate that only the combined use of tools from many disciplines (linguistics, source studies, textology, theology) can bring us closer to getting a more precise description of the creative process which eventually results in the text.
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