„Dyjalog” Kasjana Sakowicza (1642) jako druk i rękopis
Kasjan Sakowicz’s 1642 “Dyjalog” (“Dialogue”) as a Printed Book and a Manuscript

Seventeenth-Century Calendrical Arguments and Circulation of Ideas in the Old Polish Culture

Summary/Abstract: This paper is aimed at examining a mid-seventeenth century manuscript copy of Kasjan Sakowicz’s “Dyjalog (Dialogue),” published twice in 1642, being a satirical writing aimed at ridiculing the backwardness and stubbornness of the Uniate Church with regard to the acknowledgment of the Gregorian calendar. Since we have relatively little information about the scope and nature of readers’ reception of the writings created in relation to the calendrical polemics, the handwritten copy of the “Dialogue” (MS Kraków, Czartoryski Library, 1657 IV, pp. 145–146) may shed some light on the way these texts were perceived and used at the time of their publication. The article provides a comparative analysis of the second edition of the “Dialogue” and the manuscript and it aims at drawing more general conclusions regarding the scribes’ and readers’ competences in the languages used in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and also in the way this process of circulation of manuscripts could shape opinion on such matters as calendar reform or the Union of Brest. The appendices contain a parallel transcription of the printed and handwritten “Dialogue” as well as an excerpt from the Kraków manuscript, which documents other aspects of religious polemics among the Uniates and the members of the Orthodox Church.

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