Refleksja leksykograficzna w przedmowach do dawnych słowników przekładowych
Reflection on Lexicography in Prefaces to Historical Translation Dictionaries

Summary/Abstract: This article aims to examine the scope of information included in prefaces to historical bilingual or trilingual dictionaries. An analysis of prefaces to eighteen Polish-Latin and Latin-Polish dictionaries made it possible to indicate the most frequently discussed issues: references to dictionaries by earlier authors; description of the addressee and the purpose of the dictionary, praise of the work; notes on the models on which it draws; comments on the concept and macrostructure of the dictionary; comments on the microstructure of the dictionary. As established, until the nineteenth century prefaces to such dictionaries were dominated by general comments, whereas detailed notes were not an obligatory element: they largely depended on the size of the dictionary – the more extensive the dictionary, the more details about its macro- and microstructure were discussed in the preface.

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