Dawne krakowskie edycje pierwszej księgi przysłów polskich - 3. Stanisław Serafin Jagodyński jako redaktor wydania Przypowieści polskich Salomona Rysińskiego z roku 1620
Old Cracow Editions of the First Book of Polish Proverbs - 3. Stanisław Serafin Jagodyński as Editor of the 1620 Edition of Salomon Rysiński’s Polish Proverbs

Summary/Abstract: This paper is the third part of a triptych that presents the publishing history of three Cracow reissues of 1619, 1620 and 1634 of a collection of Polish proverbs Proverbiorum Polonicorum […] centuriae decem et octo prepared by Salomon Rysiński. This section discusses the editorial work of Stanisław Serafin Jagodyński on the new Cracow edition of Rysiński’s 1620 collection, which, according to the wording of its title, was “corrected in many places”. First of all, Jagodyński softened the anti-Catholic implications of some of the proverbs noted by Rysiński, who was a Calvinist. Secondly, he rewrote some of the proverbs, replacing the original phrasings with versions that he was more familiar with. Thirdly, he added twenty new proverbs. In comparison with Jagodyński’s paremiographic erudition, this number is relatively small (in his epigrams one can find many more proverbs unknown to Rysiński), as he did not think it part of his duties as the editor of the collection. Jagodyński introduced supplementary information mostly in the critical apparatus. He added a total of sixty-eight Polish proverbs to the Latin equivalents taken from the collection of Adagia by Erasmus Roterodamus, thus completing the first erudite collection of Polish proverbs.

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