Transakcyja wojny chocimskiej (redakcja druga, z rękopisu Czartoryskich 2079)
The Course of the Chocim War (Second Edition, from the Czartoryski manuscript 2079)

Author(s): Wacław Potocki
Contributor(s): Jan Okoń (Editor), Michał Kuran (Editor)
Subject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Military history, Polish Literature, 17th Century, Philology, Translation Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Wacław Potocki; The Course of the Chocim War; Polish epic of the 17th century; the war of Chocim 1621; scientific edition
Summary/Abstract: Available edition Transakcyja wojny chocimskiej by Wacław Potocki is known in two editions. The first was created in 1670 (manuscript of the Ossoliński National Institute, B.O. file no. 1622/II), the second in 1675 (manuscript of the Czartoryski Princes’ Library no. 2079). The current edition is the first edition of the text according to the second edition of this historical epic. The previous full edition based on the first edition edited in 1924 by Aleksander Brückner. The supplementary edition of the introduction and transcription of the text contains historical and linguistic commentaries, a dictionary and an index of persons. The work is a poetic catastrophe from the course of the Chocim War, which in 1621 was fought by the armies of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth with the effect of the Cossack armies led by Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, and after his death by Stanisław Lubomirski and the multinational army of the Ottoman Porte, led by Sultan Osman II. The struggle for a truce and the retreat of the Turkish troops, which is considered a victory of the Republic. The work was created to awaken the knightly spirit in the modern. Initially, the rebirth of the war took place under the scepter of the Piast king, Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki, who, however, was not sent to the network in it. Successes from the next successive ruler, Jan III Sobieski, defeating the Turks first at Chocim in 1673, and then at Vienna 10 years later.

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