„Lepiej byś był w domu siedział...” − analiza śladów lektury z wybranych egzemplarzy „Peregrynacji do Ziemi Świętej” Mikołaja Krzysztofa Radziwiłła „Sierotki” jako przyczynek do badań nad dawną recepcją dzieła
‘You should have stayed home...’ − an Analysis of Readers’ Notes Included in Some of the Copies of “Peregrination to the Holy Land” by Mikołaj Krzysztof ‘The Orphan’ Radziwiłł as a Trigger to a Study on the Old-Time Reception of the Work

Summary/Abstract: Peregrynacja do Ziemi Świętej [Peregrination to the Holy Land] by Mikołaj Krzysztof ‘The Orphan’ Radziwiłł was first published in 1601 and within next two hundred years there were fourteen other re-releases of the publication in different languages. The account of the pilgrimage to Jerusalem not only proves Radziwiłł’s comprehensive education and being well read but also presents him as a skilled sixteenth-century documentalist who knows precisely how to attract reader’s attention. The fact that the readers have left a number of underlines, notes, and comments in the preserved copies proves Peregrynacja do Ziemi Świętej to have been a great literary success of those times. This article aims at determining readers’ response to Radziwiłł’s work on the grounds of the results of the provenance research conducted on twenty copies of Peregrynacja do Ziemi Świętej deposited in the Early Printed Books Department of University of Warsaw Library.

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