„Przywiodą w swą miarę, co się wykroczyło”
“Przywiodą w swą miarę, co się wykroczyło [Lead to its value what was contravened]”

Tradition of Jan Kochanowski’s Piece “Zgoda”(“Harmony”) and Its Proper Letter

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the article is the publishing history of a piece by Stanisław Grochowski which at the beginning of the 17th c. amounted to as many as four editions. The verse in question is a commendatory piece written after the death of Jan Zamoyski and most probably read in Zamość during the field marshal’s funeral. One of the poem’s edition was devoid of its title page, thus neither its publishing house nor the date of its issuing is known. The author of the sketch researched the presently available specimens, juxtaposed them in order to establish their order, indicate its first impression as well as the last copy produced during its author’s lifetime, which may be of interest for the future editorial research. Employing the tools of textology and typographic analysis, the paper complements the missing data of the anonymous edition, identifying it as a product of Cracow’s workshop of Bazyli Skalski from the years 1610–1611.The paper is devoted to two editorial matters of Jan Kochanowski’s “Zgoda” (“Harmony”) written at the end of the year 1562. Firstly, it discusses the dependence of its various accounts, especially the undated one, from those of 1564 and 1565. The analysis of the text’s variants and consumption of woodblock which embellishes the three early versions reveals that the undated piece is most probably the first edition of “Harmony”. This part of the paper ends with a stemma codicum which schematically illustrates the relations between the individual variants. Secondly, existence of a manuscript independent from old prints allows for reconstruction of “Harmony’s” proper text. Apart from the already introduced by Julian Krzyżanowski corrections of two obvious mistakes, it also in two cases consists in changing the order of verses as confronted with the old written accounts and with the contemporary editions of Kochanowski’s piece which are based on the mentioned accounts.

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