Senoji Lietuvos literatūra
type: channel
description: Early Lithuanian Literature (Senoji Lietuvos literatūra) is a biannual peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore. This academic periodical has been edited by the Department of Early Literature of the Institute since 1992.
publisher: The Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore / Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas
language: en
publication name: Senoji Lietuvos literatūra
issn: 1822-3656
items: Chronicle
items: Studies into the Literary Canon Prompted by a Zeal for Unmasking
items: Pre-Mongol Exegetical Hymnography. Part 1: The Canon for the Feast of the Cross (Publication of a Source)
items: The Querelle des Femmes in Sixteenth-Seventeenth-Century Philosophy: Ideas of Platonism and Aristotelianism in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Europe
items: Jean de La Gessée’s Henrias: Literary Features and Sources of Imitation
items: The Relationship of Slavisms and Hybrids in Konstantinas Sirvydas’s Dictionarium trium linguarum (1642) and Promptuarium dictionum Polonicarum, Latinarum et Lituanicarum (1620)
items: The Book Market in the Light of Paratexts of Printed Books in the Kyiv Metropolitanate: Selected Issues
items: https://www.journals.vu.lt/sll/en/article/view/45003
items: Foreword
items: Editorial Board and Table of Contents
items: Annotations
items: Donelaitis’s Translator Was a Poet!
items: Miks Stolperjons, a Satirical Poem from the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
items: Miks Stolperjons, a Satire in Verse (the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century): The Manuscript and Two Publications in the Lithuanian Press
items: I Wrote to the Quandt Family and Their Descendants in 1756. Genealogy of the Family Published in the Obituary for Quandt (1772)
items: Genealogy of the Prussian Line of the Quandt Family Written by Johann Jacob Quandt, the Last Bearer of the Surname
items: Recommendation of Heinrich Tilesius, the Rector of the Tilsit Provincial School, to His Pupil Johann Schultz
items: Publications of Fiction Texts in Prussian Lithuanian Periodicals in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: Statistics and Insights
items: Martin Ludwig Rhesa’s Prutena: Between Vaterland (Fatherland) and Heimat (Homeland)
items: Intertextual Links of Johann Ferdinand Kelch’s poem Lietuvininkai: Christian Gottlieb Mielcke’s Poem Pilkainis
items: Reception of Danielius Kleinas’s Ideas in Povilas Frydrichas Ruigys’s Grammar Anfangsgründe einer Littauischen Grammatick (1747)
items: Anotations
items: Works Printed in Vilnius in the Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Catalogue of the Vilnius Jesuit Academy Library
items: The Account of the Death of King Wladyslaw IV Vasa in Merkinė on 20 May 1648 (ed. and translated from Latin into Lithuanian by Mintautas Čiurinskas)
items: The Account of the Illness and Death of Wladyslaw Vasa
items: The Orthography and Dating of Simonas Daukantas’s Unfinished Second Collection of Song Bundles

Chronicle
type: item
description: -
subject: Chronicle
  topic: section
subject: -
  topic: keywords
creator: Lukas Bieliauskas
creator: Ona Dilytė-Čiurinskienė
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-01
publication date: 2025-12-01
starting page: 193
ending page: 195

Studies into the Literary Canon Prompted by a Zeal for Unmasking
type: item
description: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Viktorija Šeina, Aistė Kučinskienė, <em style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Mokyklinis lietuvių literatūros kanonas. Šimtmečio raidos rekonstrukcija<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">: Monografija, Vilnius: Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas, 2024, 614 p., ISBN 978-609-425-399-7
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
subject: -
  topic: keywords
creator: Darius Kuolys
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-01
publication date: 2025-12-01
starting page: 159
ending page: 192
doi: 10.51554/SLL.25.59.08

Pre-Mongol Exegetical Hymnography. Part 1: The Canon for the Feast of the Cross (Publication of a Source)
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description: <p lang="en-GB" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">This is a publication of an exegetical canon for the Feast of the Cross from a pre-Mongol set of original (untranslated) exegetical canons (dated approximately 1170–1180) for ten ecclesiastic feast days of the Menaion and Triodion cycles. This set originated in Kievan Rus’ and was widely distributed in East Slavonic manuscript tradition. It was also known in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, where the exegetical canon for Easter was even translated into the Ruthenian language (the author of this article published it in 2020). Based on a combination of linguistic, content-related, and intertextual features, this anonymous set of exegetical canons has been attributed to the Jerusalem monk Afanasii (who did indeed live in the Holy Land for some time), known as the author of his ‘Epistle to Panko about the Wood of the Holy Cross’ and the commentator on the ‘Epistle by Kliment Smoliatich [Metropolitan of Kiev from 1147 to 1155 – S. T.] to the Smolensk Presbyter Foma’. Despite its widespread use in the manuscript tradition, the set has not been studied and remains virtually unknown to scholars. This publication is based on one of the very few manuscript copies containing the maximum number of texts from this cycle (ten out of twelve): Exegetical Psalter with additions from the early seventeenth century (Novosibirsk, State Public Scientific and Technical Library of Russia, collection of Mikhail Nikolaevich Tikhomirov, No. 41, f. 67–186v.).
subject: Publications
  topic: section
subject: Kievan Rus’
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subject: exegetical literature
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subject: hymnography
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subject: Cyrillic manuscripts
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subject: Church Slavonic literature
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creator: Sergejus Temčinas
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-02-17
publication date: 2026-02-17
starting page: 141
ending page: 155
doi: 10.51554/SLL.25.59.07

The Querelle des Femmes in Sixteenth-Seventeenth-Century Philosophy: Ideas of Platonism and Aristotelianism in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Europe
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description: <p lang="en-GB" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The article examines the reception of Plato and Aristotle’s philosophy in shaping attitudes towards women in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Europe in the sixteenth–seventeenth centuries. It examines how various philosophical treatises, dialogues, and Aristotle’s commentaries influenced intellectual discourse beyond their cultural origins, thus creating a basis for a philosophical understanding of the role of women in the family and society of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. <p lang="en-GB" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The article juxtaposes the views of Platonists and Aristotelians on women. Platonism, especially in Renaissance court culture, offered a more progressive perspective. Through such works as Baldassare Castiglione’s Il cortegiano (1528) and Łukasz Górnicki’s Dworzanin polski (1566; The Polish Courtier), the article highlights the differences between Western European and Polish-Lithuanian court societies. Although constrained by certain patriarchal norms, Castiglione’s lady-in-waiting actively participated in public life by engaging in refined conversation, musical activities, and danc…
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Women of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
  topic: keywords
subject: Plato
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subject: Aristotle
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subject: Bartholomäus Keckermann
  topic: keywords
subject: Aaron Alexander Olizarowski
  topic: keywords
subject: Olizarovius
  topic: keywords
subject: Michał Mniszek
  topic: keywords
creator: Dovilė Čitavičiūtė
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-01
publication date: 2025-12-01
starting page: 112
ending page: 138
doi: 10.51554/SLL.25.59.06

Jean de La Gessée’s Henrias: Literary Features and Sources of Imitation
type: item
description: <p lang="en-GB" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The second part of a two-article series continues with the analysis of Henrias, a collection of Latin occasional poems written by a poet of the Valois court who wrote under the pseudonym of Jean de La Gessée, during the election of Henry Valois in 1573. The collection is analysed in terms of literary form, theme, and ideas. The article describes the main motifs and images used to convey the political narrative and propaganda message and to create an ‘epic’ image of Henry Valois, the future ruler of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and reveals the sources of literary influence and imitation. The connections between this collection and La Gessée’s other works are indicated, including those that were likely written by the same author under other pseudonyms. One such work is the epic poem Élection du sérénissime duc d’Anjou, roy de Poulongne [...] published by Paul de Vollant in 1573. The similarities between the text of this poem and Henrias, the circumstances of its publication, and other aspects would allow this poem to be attributed to La Gessée (i.e., the court poet Louis d’Amboise, who used both these pseudonyms; we have examined this identification of the author in previous articles, and it remains the subject of further and more detailed research). <p lang="en-GB" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px…
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the sixteenth century
  topic: keywords
subject: Henry Valois
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subject: Neo-Latin literature in the sixteenth century
  topic: keywords
subject: Henrias
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subject: Jean de La Gessée
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subject: Louis d’Amboise
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creator: Rasa Marija Šileikienė
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-01
publication date: 2025-12-01
starting page: 68
ending page: 111
doi: 10.51554/SLL.25.59.05

The Relationship of Slavisms and Hybrids in Konstantinas Sirvydas’s Dictionarium trium linguarum (1642) and Promptuarium dictionum Polonicarum, Latinarum et Lituanicarum (1620)
type: item
description: <p lang="en-GB" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The article examines the borrowed lexical elements in Konstantinas Sirvydas’s Promptuarium dictionum Polonicarum, Latinarum et Lituanicarum of 1620 (hereinafter SPr) and the dictionary Dictionarium trium linguarum of 1642 (hereinafter SD). A total of 955 unique Slavisms and hybrids with Slavic roots were selected from SPr and SD, of which 571 words were recorded in SPr and 703 in SD. Among the 703 words attested in SD, 185 Slavisms and hybrids are not only absent from SPr but also lack any common root words in it. These particular loanwords are the focus of this study. The aim was to determine their relationship with SPr and to explore possible reasons why certain Slavisms and hybrids were not used in the earlier dictionary but were recorded in the later one. <p lang="en-GB" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Among the common Slavisms and hybrids used in SD but not found in the SPr, there is a group of words that are not found in SPr due to the fact that the only surviving copy of the Promptuarium is defective, i.e., some pages are missing; today, it is not possible to check the translation of some of …
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Konstantinas Sirvydas
  topic: keywords
subject: dictionaries of the seventeenth century
  topic: keywords
subject: Slavisms
  topic: keywords
subject: hybrids
  topic: keywords
subject: native words
  topic: keywords
creator: Anželika Smetonienė
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-01
publication date: 2025-12-01
starting page: 52
ending page: 67
doi: 10.51554/SLL.25.59.04

The Book Market in the Light of Paratexts of Printed Books in the Kyiv Metropolitanate: Selected Issues
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description: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">The article deals with selected issues concerning the functioning of the publishing market in the Kyiv metropolitanate in the first decades after the first Ruthenian typographers became active (up to the mid-seventeenth century). The source base is the paratexts (the preface, the dedicatory letter, the afterword) of books of mainly liturgical and more broadly Orthodox use dominating the books on offer, whose authors were mostly publishers, printers, and editors, acting independently or as members of teams developing the publishing process. In the paratexts, they attempted to explain the reasons for their publishing activity or justify the choice of a particular book. Among the most frequent reasons, they would point out errors occurring in manuscript books, the scarcity or unavailability of particular books caused by various factors, the existence of printed versions but not corrected within the scope of issues concerning liturgical and sacramental-ceremonial practice. In addition, the paratexts contain interesting data on the competition between various printing centres, indicating the difficulties in coordinating and controlling the publishing market by the Metropolitan of Kyiv. The paratextual material also brings interesting evidence on the existence of an in-depth reflection on the role of printing, the importance of books in religious life and in the process of expanding knowledge in the Ruthenian environment in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: book
  topic: keywords
subject: paratext
  topic: keywords
subject: print
  topic: keywords
subject: publishing
  topic: keywords
subject: Kyiv metropolitanate
  topic: keywords
creator: Alicja Zofia Nowak
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-01
publication date: 2025-12-01
starting page: 31
ending page: 51
doi: 10.51554/SLL.25.59.03

https://www.journals.vu.lt/sll/en/article/view/45003
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title: The Sermon Against Drunkenness Attributed to St Job of Pochaev as a Manifestation of Serbian and Ukrainian Literary Ties in the Sixteenth–Seventeenth centuries (The Fourteenth-Century Translation of George Hamartolus’s Chronicle)
description: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">The article is devoted to a short anonymous sermon against drunkenness in a now lost manuscript that once belonged to the Pochaev Monastery and is believed to have been written by St Job of Pochaev (<em style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">c<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">. 1551–1651) in his own hand. Nikolai Petrov, who studied the codex, named it ‘Pchela Pochaevskaya’ (Pochaev’s Melissa) and published this sermon as one of St Job’s works. The attribution of the manuscript and several anonymous sermons contained therein to Job of Pochaev was met with reasoned criticism but is nevertheless recognised by contemporary scholars. The article…
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: church Slavonic homiletic
  topic: keywords
subject: early Ukrainian literature
  topic: keywords
subject: George Hamartolus’s chronicle
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subject: Job of Pochaev
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subject: Serbian and Ukrainian literary ties
  topic: keywords
creator: Sergejus Temčinas
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-01
publication date: 2025-12-01
starting page: 19
ending page: 30
doi: 10.51554/SLL.25.59.02

Foreword
type: item
description: -
subject: Front Matter
  topic: section
subject: -
  topic: keywords
creator: Asta Vaškelienė
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-01
publication date: 2025-12-01
starting page: 9
ending page: 16

Editorial Board and Table of Contents
type: item
description: -
subject: Front Matter
  topic: section
subject: -
  topic: keywords
creator: Mintautas Čiurinskas
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-01
publication date: 2025-12-01
starting page: 1
ending page: 7

Chronicle
type: item
description: -
subject: Chronicle
  topic: section
subject: -
  topic: keywords
creator: Ona Aleknavičienė
creator: Liucija Citavičiūtė
creator: Mintautas Čiurinskas
creator: Kęstutis Gudmantas
creator: Raimonda Meyer-Ravaitytė
creator: Simona Mocejūnaitė- Vaitkienė
creator: Jūratė Pajėdienė
creator: Kotryna Rekašiūtė
creator: Žavinta Sidabraitė
creator: Tadas Šaulys
creator: Eleonora Terleckienė
creator: Viktorija Vaitkevičiūtė Verbickienė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 235
ending page: 264

Annotations
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description: Axel E. Walter, Orpheus Prutenus. Selbstkonzept und Rezeption des Dichters Simon Dach, Klaipėda: Klaipėdos universiteto leidykla, 2020, 415 p. ISBN 978-609-481-083-1 Deutsche Gelehrte und die baltischen Sprachen, hrsg. von Harald Bichlmeier, Christiane Schiller und Silke Brohm, (Schriftenreihe der Gesellschaft für Baltische Studien 5), Hamburg: baar, 2024, 194 p. ISBN 978-3-935536-50-9 Kęstutis Daugirdas, Andrius Volanas ir reformacija Lietuvos Didžiojoje Kunigaikštystėje, monografija, Vilnius: Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas, 2024, 445 p. ISBN 978-609-425-385-0 Alkiškių, Šiaulių, Žeimelio evangelikų liuteronų parapijos ir jų archyvai, sudarė Ernestas Vasiliauskas, Klaipėdos universiteto Baltijos regiono istorijos ir archeologijos institutas, Klaipėda: Klaipėdos universiteto leidykla, 2024, 239 p. ISBN 978-609-481-187-6
subject: Annotations
  topic: section
subject: -
  topic: keywords
creator: Liucija Citavičiūtė
creator: Mintautas Čiurinskas
creator: Žavinta Sidabraitė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-01-27
publication date: 2025-01-27
starting page: 227
ending page: 233

Donelaitis’s Translator Was a Poet!
type: item
description: -
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
subject: -
  topic: keywords
creator: Alina Kuzborska
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 218
ending page: 225
doi: 10.51554/SLL.24.58.11

Miks Stolperjons, a Satirical Poem from the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
type: item
description: -
subject: Publications
  topic: section
subject: -
  topic: keywords
creator: Žavinta Sidabraitė
creator: Kotryna Rekašiūtė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 196
ending page: 217
doi: 10.51554/SLL.24.58.10

Miks Stolperjons, a Satire in Verse (the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century): The Manuscript and Two Publications in the Lithuanian Press
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description: Miks Stolperjons is a 192-line satirical poem written in Lithuanian in the second half of the nineteenth century (before 1879). The plot of the poem consists of a series of comic situations in which the protagonist, Mikas, keeps falling into due to his clumsiness and lack of good manners. The semi-German personal name Stolperjons (Ger. stolpern ‘to stumble’) in the title indicates that this is probably a translation. Two original quatrains are inserted into the text of the satire that mock the uncultured behaviour typical of Prussian Lithuanians. In its language and artistic expression, Miks Stolperjons is consistent with the general level of Prussian Lithuanian poetry of the time. Today, three versions of the text are known: the manuscript and two publications in the press. The manuscript copy of Miks Stolperjons is part of a notebook of poems in the Manuscript Department of the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences (shelf mark: F163–1086, fol. 13r–17v). The manuscript contains later corrections and additions in darker black ink in a different hand, which are not reflected in the publications. The first publication of the satirical poem appeared in Gothic type in the Prussian Lithuanian newspaper Lietuviška ceitunga of 23 September 1879. The text published here is almost identical to the manuscript text. The publication in Latin characters in the American Lithuanian newspaper Vienybė lietuvninkų of 8 July 1896 was slightly edited: the spelling and language were modernised. In the manuscript, the authorship of the Lithuanian text of the poem, with a question mark, is attributed to Mikelis Šapalas (1827–1887), a Prussian Lithuanian public figure, teacher, poet, translator, and an active contributor to the Lietuviška ceitunga. In the Lietuviška ceitunga, the poem is signed with X., a very popular pseudonym used by many authors at the time. In Vienybė lietuvninkų, the pen-name Lietuvaitė M. S. appears under the poem. It was used by Joana Tamošauskait…
subject: Publications
  topic: section
subject: Literature of Prussian Lithuania
  topic: keywords
subject: satirical poem
  topic: keywords
subject: manuscript
  topic: keywords
subject: publication
  topic: keywords
subject: author
  topic: keywords
creator: Žavinta Sidabraitė
creator: Kotryna Rekašiūtė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 186
ending page: 195
doi: 10.51554/SLL.24.58.09

I Wrote to the Quandt Family and Their Descendants in 1756. Genealogy of the Family Published in the Obituary for Quandt (1772)
type: item
description: -
subject: Publications
  topic: section
subject: -
  topic: keywords
creator: Mindaugas Strockis
creator: Liucija Citavičiūtė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 152
ending page: 185
doi: 10.51554/SLL.24.58.08

Genealogy of the Prussian Line of the Quandt Family Written by Johann Jacob Quandt, the Last Bearer of the Surname
type: item
description: Johann Jacob Quandt (1686–1772), the general superintendent of Prussia, is well-known in the history of Lithuanian literature and culture as a promoter of Lithuanian writing in eighteenth-century Prussian Lithuania. About a dozen Lithuanian books were produced under his care. He involved students and graduates of the University of Königsberg in the writing process. It is not known what prompted Quandt to write the genealogy of his family and when he started this work, but it is known that he finished it in 1756 and left the manuscript to his nephew, Johann Christoph Bohlius (1703–1785). After his death, Quandt’s personal archive was reviewed and some of the documents were included in the obituary ‘To the Man While He Lived […] Magnificent [...] Johann Jacob Quandt’ (Viro, dum viveret, magnifico [...] Johanni Jacobo Quandt [...], Königsberg, 1772). This obituary was the first publication of the genealogy of eight generations of the Quandt family. The Quandts established themselves in Königsberg in the sixteenth century; the Teutonic Knights or their descendants may have been the founders of this branch of the family. The obituary with the genealogy of the Quandts is kept at the National Library of Poland in Warsaw (Biblioteka Narodowa w Warszawie, sign. SD XVIII.4.1170 adl.). Quandt’s manuscript has not survived or has not been found. Many of the men of the Quandt family had been educated at the University of Königsberg, served in government posts, were priests, and one was a merchant engaged in commerce. The men of the family usually chose the daughters of priests as their wives, making it an elite family. Of the Quandt family, three of its representatives are better known today: Jacobus, the great-grandfather of Johann Jacob Quandt, his father Johann, and our Johann Jacob Quandt, the general superintendent of Prussia, the preacher of the royal court, and first professor of theology. The appended source was translated from the Latin by Dr Mindaugas Strockis.
subject: Publications
  topic: section
subject: Jonas Jokūbas Kvantas
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subject: Johann Jacob Quandt
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subject: Karaliaučius
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subject: Königsberg
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subject: genealogy of the Quandts
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subject: literary texts of Quandt’s funeral
  topic: keywords
creator: Liucija Citavičiūtė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 137
ending page: 151
doi: 10.51554/SLL.24.58.07

Recommendation of Heinrich Tilesius, the Rector of the Tilsit Provincial School, to His Pupil Johann Schultz
type: item
description: The article discusses and presents, along with its translation into Lithuanian and commentaries, a document kept at the Secret State Archives Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (Ger. Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz) in Berlin (shelf mark: GStA PK: I. HA GR, Rep. 7 Preußen, No. 191 [1685–1703]). It is a copy of the recommendation written on 30 April 1695 by Heinrich Tilesius (1666–1732), the rector of the Tilsit provincial school, to the pupil Johann Schultz (Jonas Šulcas, ~1678–1709), a future theology student at the University of Königsberg, a priest in Prussian Lithuania, and the translator of the first Lithuanian book of literary fiction, Die Fabeln Aesopi (Aesop’s Fables, Königsberg, 1706). Tilesius’s recommendation is important for several reasons. This archival source provides information about the Tilsit provincial school: the name of Johann Schultz extends the list of the school’s well-known pupils, evidences the most important subjects included in the curriculum of the time, and reveals some of the competences of the schoolmaster. Tilesius’s Latin text is an example of a recommendation written in a high or almost Ciceronian style of eloquence; it is a distinctive rhetorical piece demonstrating the excellent classical education of the rector of the provincial school of Tilsit. The recommendation also adds new details to the biographical information on Johann Schultz, the pupil of this school, a future creator of Lithuanian literature, or, more precisely, provides some facts about his education prior to his studies at the University of Königsberg: not only did he go to the provincial school in Tilsit, but he also attended the Latin school in Insterburg, where, besides learning Latin, he also studied Greek and acquired knowledge of poetry, philosophy, and, in particular, rhetoric. Schultz’s teachers included not only Heinrich Tilesius, but also Johann Picker (~1640–1693), a well-known pedagogue of the time, a follower of Philipp Jacob Spener …
subject: Publications
  topic: section
subject: Prussian Lithuania
  topic: keywords
subject: Tilsit provincial school
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subject: Heinrich Tilesius
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subject: Johann Schultz (Jonas Šulcas)
  topic: keywords
creator: Birutė Triškaitė
creator: Ona Dilytė-Čiurinskienė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 107
ending page: 135
doi: 10.51554/SLL.24.58.06

Publications of Fiction Texts in Prussian Lithuanian Periodicals in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: Statistics and Insights
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description: In 1823, the first Lithuanian periodical appeared in Tilžė (Ger. Tilsit). It was a magazine-type publication called Nusidavimai Dievo karalystėje. It was followed by more Lithuanian newspapers and their supplements in Prussian Lithuania. Print shops produced the newspapers in German and Lithuanian, in Gothic typeface. Most of them appeared in the print shops of Tilžė and Klaipėda (Ger. Memel). The newspapers published a wide range of material: articles on various subjects (philosophy, religion, the natural sciences, art, geography, etc.), reviews, and also texts of fiction, in the dissemination of which the periodicals of Prussian Lithuania played an important role. The article examines the amount of fiction texts (original and anonymous prose and poetry) published in Prussian Lithuanian periodicals, identifies the periodicals that published the most of them and their changes over the decades. It also reveals the cultural context of the printing of fiction in the periodical press: the network of people involved in the creation, publication, and distribution of texts. The names of fiction authors and periodical editors are identified, and their relationship to the world of culture is discussed. It was established that during the period under study (1849–1913), more than 3250 publications of works of fiction appeared in 27 periodicals and their supplements intended for Prussian Lithuania (Kaimynas, Lietuviška ceitunga, Tilžės keleivis, and others). The texts of fiction published in these periodicals came in a variety of genres: poetry, prose, drama, satire, and humour. The choice of the authors and types of texts depended on the editors of the publications. The editors of the periodicals that published the largest numbers of the texts of fiction were individuals active in the field of Prussian Lithuanian writing in the late nineteenth-early twentieth centuries. The fiction published in the periodical press also spread in the form of albums of copies. The manuscript co…
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: periodical press of Prussian Lithuania
  topic: keywords
subject: texts of fiction
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subject: bibliographical analysis
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subject: statistics
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subject: collections of copies
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creator: Kotryna Rekašiūtė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 83
ending page: 103
doi: 10.51554/SLL.24.58.05

Martin Ludwig Rhesa’s Prutena: Between Vaterland (Fatherland) and Heimat (Homeland)
type: item
description: Martin Ludwig Rhesa’s (Lith. Martynas Liudvikas Rėza, 1776–1840) original work, the two-volume collection of his German poetry Prutena (1809, 1825), became available to Lithuanian readers approximately two hundred years later, when Antanas A. Jonynas translated it into Lithuanian (2023). This fact opens up the possibility not only to get to know Rhesa’s literary abilities, but also to delve into the world of East Prussian intellectual life, to which the poet undoubtedly belonged. Rhesa’s duality, his belonging to two cultures – German and (Prussian) Lithuanian – is clearly visible in his understanding of the concept of ‘homeland’. The dual concept of ‘homeland’ in German, Heimat and Vaterland, is already evident in the titles of the collections and in the distribution of emphasis in the texts themselves. The poetic works described by the adjective vaterländisch imply an attachment to German cultural values: the Prussian government, the king, the official Evangelical Lutheran Church, while prutenisch would refer to the way of life and the culture of the ancestors of the Balts – the Prussians and the Lithuanians of that time – in their own homeland, Prussian Lithuania. The concept of a small homeland or fatherland is evident in some poems and ‘folk songs’. In Prutena, Rhesa adopted a Herderian strategy, since Herder published folk songs of various nations alongside poems by specific authors (Volkslieder, 1778/1779). In Rhesa’s work, the majority of the poems are his own, while ‘(folk) song texts’ account for only a quarter of the genre. Rhesa gives different genre descriptions to his German texts with the addition of ‘song’. He refers to poems such as ‘Der versunkene Brautring’ (The Sunken Ring), ‘Mila’ (Mila), ‘Elwa und Selmis’ (Elwe and Selmis), ‘Des fernen Schiffers Lied’ (The Sailor’s Song), and many others simply as eine littauische Daina (A Lithuanian Song). In the second volume, several texts have Volkslied in their title, such as ‘Der Lindentanz. Samländisches…
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Prutena
  topic: keywords
subject: Borussia
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subject: Ludwig Rhesa
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subject: Johann Gottfried Herder
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subject: Vaterland / Fatherland
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subject: Heimat / Homeland
  topic: keywords
subject: idyll
  topic: keywords
subject: daina / folk song
  topic: keywords
creator: Alina Kuzborska
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 63
ending page: 82
doi: 10.51554/SLL.24.58.04

Intertextual Links of Johann Ferdinand Kelch’s poem Lietuvininkai: Christian Gottlieb Mielcke’s Poem Pilkainis
type: item
description: Johann Ferdinand Kelch’s (Lith. Johanas Ferdinandas Kelkis, 1801–1877) poem Lietuvininkai (Prussian Lithuanians), composed in the second half of the nineteenth century, was first published in the monthly magazine Saulėteka (Sunrise, Nos 8–9, 1900), edited by Martynas Jankus (1858–1946) and printed in his print shop. It is a 472-line historical poem written in a four-line cross-rhymed iamb. The first historical poem in Lithuanian – Pilkainis by Christian Gottlieb Mielcke (Lith. Kristijonas Gottlybas Milkus, 1733–1807), printed in the early nineteenth century – inspired Johann Ferdinand Kelch to write his own historical poem Lietuvininkai. Kelch’s decision to build on and interpret his predecessor in his own way was a natural one: this was due to the issues of national and religious identity, which had become highly relevant in the socio-cultural context of mid-nineteenth-century Prussian Lithuania. The intertextuality of Lietuvininkai should not be seen as a literary method consciously chosen by the author but as a kind of unfolding of the collective subconscious. Mielcke based his poem on the rationalist model of historical development that had gained a foothold in the Age of Enlightenment. Kelch built the story of the Prussian Lithuanians on a religious narrative of history. By tracing the ancestry of the Prussian Lithuanians back to the descendants of the biblical Noah, he seemed to try to inculcate Christianity into the ancestors of the old Balts and at the same time to suppress the memories of historical injustice, which had been reawakened by the Germanisation that had intensified in the mid-nineteenth century. Mielcke’s poem became a suitable model, which, when followed, supplemented, and adjusted, made it possible to rethink the most dramatic period of the nation’s history, to strongly suggest that Christianisation of the Prussian Lithuanians was God’s intended plan, and that having won eternal salvation, one should not really regret the loss of national grea…
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Literature of Prussian Lithuania
  topic: keywords
subject: historical poem
  topic: keywords
subject: textual interpolation
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subject: intertextual links
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subject: Christianisation
  topic: keywords
creator: Žavinta Sidabraitė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 45
ending page: 62
doi: 10.51554/SLL.24.58.03

Reception of Danielius Kleinas’s Ideas in Povilas Frydrichas Ruigys’s Grammar Anfangsgründe einer Littauischen Grammatick (1747)
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description: The article analyses the reception of Danielius Kleinas’s ideas in Povilas Frydrichas Ruigys’s grammar Anfangsgründe einer Littauischen Grammatick (1747, hereinafter RG). Two aims were pursued: (1) to single out Kleinas’s ideas that Ruigys found relevant and suitable for describing the language of the mid-eighteenth century and (2) to identify the intentions of Ruigys in adopting them. Using an analytical interpretive approach based on philological analysis, it is shown that Kleinas’s Grammatica Litvanica (1653, hereinafter KG) was a particularly important source. The need of the Age of Enlightenment to learn about the world and to educate society is highlighted in discussing the motives for adopting and adapting ideas. The study of the reception of Kleinas’s ideas leads to the following conclusions: 1. Frequent references to KG, both explicit and implicit, point to a similar school of linguistic thought and the acceptability of its ideas. 2. KG was a particularly important source in two respects: (1) selecting a dialect for grammar and distinguishing it from others and (2) developing an extensive section on syntax. 3. By adopting Kleinas’s key idea of choosing one dialect as the basis for the description of the Lithuanian language, Ruigys expanded its area to two counties: Įsrutis (Ger. Insterburg) and Ragainė (Ger. Ragnit). He considered the other dialects in Prussia and Lithuania Major as secondary. Ruigys was the first to classify Lithuanian dialects by the opposition main : secondary or centre : periphery. 4. By placing emphasis on the stability, universality, and prestige of the main dialect in relation to other dialects, Ruigys continued the tradition of forming standard language on the basis of one dialect, which was initiated by Kleinas. In the eighteenth century, this was relevant for the written form of the language. 5. By introducing secondary dialects, he aimed to facilitate the integration of individuals appointed to priesthood in a new linguistic envi…
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Danielius Kleinas
  topic: keywords
subject: Povilas Frydrichas Ruigys
  topic: keywords
subject: grammar of the Lithuanian language
  topic: keywords
subject: inguistics of seventeenth-eighteenth-century Prussian Lithuania
  topic: keywords
creator: Ona Aleknavičienė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 21
ending page: 44
doi: 10.51554/SLL.24.58.02

Foreword
type: item
description: -
subject: Front Matter
  topic: section
subject: -
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creator: Liucija Citavičiūtė
creator: Žavinta Sidabraitė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 9
ending page: 17
doi: 10.51554/SLL.24.58.01

Editorial Board and Table of Contents
type: item
description: -
subject: Front Matter
  topic: section
subject: -
  topic: keywords
creator: Liucija Citavičiūtė
creator: Žavinta Sidabraitė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 1
ending page: 8

Chronicle
type: item
description: -
subject: Chronicle
  topic: section
subject: -
  topic: keywords
creator: Mintautas Čiurinskas
creator: Asta Vaškelienė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 321
ending page: 328

Anotations
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description: Gedimino laiškai, sudarė ir iš lotynų kalbos vertė Sigitas Narbutas, įvadą ir komentarus parašė Darius Kuolys, iliustracijas piešė Marius Jonutis, Vilnius: Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas, 2023, 64 p. ISBN 987-609-425-344-7 Lietuvos ir Žemaičių Didžiosios Kunigaikštystės metraštis. Monografinis tyrimas ir kritinis leidimas, parengė Kęstutis Gudmantas = Chronicle of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Samogitia. A Study and a Critical Edition, edited by Kęstutis Gudmantas, Vilnius: Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas, 2024, 459 p., faks. ISBN 978-609-425-127-6 Žvaigždės pakeičia skeptrus: 1695 m. Kražių kolegijos rankraščio poezija, sudarė ir parengė Ona Dilytė-Čiurinskienė, iš lotynų ir lenkų kalbos vertė Ona Dilytė-Čiurinskienė, Regina Koženiauskienė, Sigitas Narbutas, komentarus rašė Ona-Dilytė-Čiurinskienė, Regina Koženiauskienė, 2024, 423 p.: iliustr., santr. angl. k. ISBN 978-609-425-293-8 Pirmasis Juozapato Kuncevičiaus gyvenimo aprašymas Relatio (1624). Palaimintojo Juozapato kankinystės poezija XVII a. knygelėje Rhythmus: studija, Relatio komentuotas leidimas, vertimas iš lotynų kalbos; straipsnis, Rhythmus kopija ir perrašas, poetinis vertimas iš lotynų kalbos, parengė Mintautas Čiurinskas ir Ona Dilytė-Čiurinskienė, Vilnius: Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas, 2023, 224 p., iliustr, faks. ISBN 978-609-425-373-7 Mintautas Čiurinskas, Europinė Oršos pergalės (1514) propaganda ir Lietuvos kultūra, Vilnius: Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas, 2024, 207 p., iliustr. ISBN 978-609-425-387-4 Oršos pergalės (1514) šaltiniai: poezija, proginiai ir naujienų spaudiniai = Fontes victoriae apud Orsham A. D. 1514: carmina, editiones occasionales et libelli nuntiorum, sudarė ir parengė, [įvadą ir komentarus parašė] Mintautas Čiurinskas, iš lotynų kalbos vertė Mintautas Čiurinskas, Ona Dilytė-Čiurinskienė, Eugenija Ulčinaitė, iš vokiečių kalbos vertė Vilija Gerulaitienė, Vilnius: Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas, 2024…
subject: Annotations
  topic: section
subject: -
  topic: keywords
creator: Mintautas Čiurinskas
creator: Darius Kuolys
creator: Eleonora Terleckienė
creator: Vaiva Vasiliauskaitė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 307
ending page: 319

Works Printed in Vilnius in the Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Catalogue of the Vilnius Jesuit Academy Library
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description: Based on the eighteenth-century manuscript catalogue of the Vilnius Jesuit Academy library, the purpose of the article was to investigate what part of the library consisted of the output of the printing houses of Vilnius, to identify the printers of Vilnius whose output the library had and the number of those works, and the themes of books that the Jesuits read. From approximately 4500 entries in the catalogue, 155 entries were selected in which Vilnius was indicated as the place of publication or identified as such. All the information, including transcribed catalogue entries, identified publications, books belonging to the Vilnius Jesuit Academy library with their provenance marks and the current known location of their storage, is provided separately in the appendix. During the research, 143 titles were identified, and 259 copies were counted. After identifying almost all the printed works selected from the catalogue, it turned out that the library had eight titles (nine copies) printed in the sixteenth century, 68 titles (122 copies) from the seventeenth century, and 67 titles (128 copies) printed in the eighteenth century. Most of them were the output of the Vilnius Academy printing house. Religious texts, comprising polemical, hagiographic, and theological writings, constituted 56 per cent of all printed works, while works on logics, mathematics, geography, and physics made up only 7.7 per cent. Various calendars started to be printed in the second half of the eighteenth century and became very popular. The largest number of works printed in Vilnius were in Latin (48.6 per cent) and Polish (47.2 per cent); works in French, German, Lithuanian, Latvian, and other languages accounted for 4.2 per cent. The inscriptions in the books reveal that the Jesuits not only bought books but also received them as gifts. Not only famous patrons but also the authors such as Maciej Miłuński, Jan Zrzelski, Antonius Aloysius Misztołt donated books to the library. The Vilnius Acad…
subject: Publications
  topic: section
subject: manuscript catalogue of the Vilnius Jesuit Academy library
  topic: keywords
subject: output of the Vilnius Academy printing house
  topic: keywords
subject: sixteenth-eighteenth-century works printed in Vilnius
  topic: keywords
creator: Aušra Rinkūnaitė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 254
ending page: 305
doi: 10.51554/SLL.24.57.09

The Account of the Death of King Wladyslaw IV Vasa in Merkinė on 20 May 1648 (ed. and translated from Latin into Lithuanian by Mintautas Čiurinskas)
type: item
description: -
subject: Publications
  topic: section
subject: -
  topic: keywords
creator: Mintautas Čiurinskas
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 245
ending page: 253
doi: 10.51554/SLL.24.57.08

The Account of the Illness and Death of Wladyslaw Vasa
type: item
description: The article presents an anonymous account of the last days of life and death of Wladislaw Vasa, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, in Merkinė. The ruler died on 20 May 1648, and the text in question is one of the most detailed sources on this event. The article also includes extracts from Wladislaw Vasa’s will, hitherto unused in the historiography, which reflect his wish regarding the burial place and his bequest to St Casimir’s Chapel after his death. That this ruler’s heart rests in St Casimir’s Chapel of Vilnius Cathedral, which he had finished within his lifetime, was due to the circumstances of his death in Lithuania, the autopsy carried out, and the will of the nobles of Lithuania rather than that of the ruler. On the other hand, the latter was also exercised, by burying his body in the mausoleum of the Polish kings in Wawel Cathedral in Cracow. The introductory article discusses some of the circumstances of the ruler’s stay and illness in Merkinė, as well as the source itself. The publication includes a full Latin-Lithuanian translation of the account of Wladislaw Vasa’s illness and death.
subject: Publications
  topic: section
subject: Wladyslaw IV Vasa
  topic: keywords
subject: Merkinė
  topic: keywords
subject: illness
  topic: keywords
subject: disease treatment
  topic: keywords
subject: ruler’s death
  topic: keywords
creator: Mintautas Čiurinskas
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 223
ending page: 244
doi: 10.51554/SLL.24.57.07

The Orthography and Dating of Simonas Daukantas’s Unfinished Second Collection of Song Bundles
type: item
description: Simonas Daukantas collected Lithuanian folk songs for almost his entire creative life (at least 1827–1861). He published his first collection of songs in 1846 (DAJNES Żiamajtiû pagał Ƶôdiû Dajnĩnikû ĩszraszytas, Petropĩlie: Spaudinie pas C. Kray) and was preparing the second one, but did not complete it. This article mostly deals with the orthography and dating of the three bundles of songs (XXIV, XXX, and XXX) that were intended for this second collection. It also elaborates on the time Daukantas completed his hand copy of Simonas Stanevičius song edition of 1829 (DAYNAS ŻEMAYCZIU SURYNKTAS YR YSŹDUTAS PAR SYMONA STANEWICZE Mokslynyka Lyteraturas yr Grażiuju Prytirymu. WYLNIUJE. SPAUSTUWIEJ’ B. NEUMANA) and edited the orthography of his own handwritten songs. One song, “It Is Hard to our Little Neighbor” (“Mūsų susiedeliui vargas yra”; XXIV bundle f. 33v), may be considered originating in the somewhat earlier period, in the last years of Daukantas residing in St Petersburg (…–1850). Its most palpable orthographic features: <ąn> [an, ọn], <ó> [ọ], possibly <‑tĩ>. During Varniai period (1850–1855) Daukantas must have written down several songs: “For that One Night” (“Dėl tos vienos nakties”) with the names of winds and a proverb (XXIV bundle f. 30r); three songs (XXIV bundle f. 30r); and the song “(He) Sings Alone” (“Vienas dainuoja”; XXIV bundle f. 32r). Graphochronologically significant orthographic features: <‑ti>; <‑jo> praet. 3; <ą> [ą] in word‑initial and word‑medial positions. During the Kálnėnai period (1859–1861), Daukantas possibly wrote down most of the songs he intended for his second collection of folk songs—those were the major texts of the bundles XXIV (f. 2r–29r), XXX (f. 1r–12v), and XXXI (f. 1r–18v). Their most salient orthographic features were: <‑ja> praet. 3; <an> [ą] in word‑initial and word‑medial positions; <Rig‑> (also often older apostrophic forms: <‑j’> in iness. sg. [f.] case; <Lietuw‑>). Somewhat later, but still, in Kálnėnai, Daukantas m…
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: 19 c. Lithuanian folk songs
  topic: keywords
subject: Simonas Daukantas
  topic: keywords
subject: History of Lithuanian orthography
  topic: keywords
subject: graphochronology
  topic: keywords
subject: dating by orthography
  topic: keywords
creator: Giedrius Subačius
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 197
ending page: 220
doi: 10.51554/SLL.24.57.06