Chronica Polonorum (1519)

Chronica Polonorum (Latin: Chronicle of the Poles, Polish: Kronika polska) is a treaty about Polish history and geography written in Latin by a Polish renaissance scholar Maciej Miechowita, a professor of Jagiellonian University, historian, geographer, astrologer, and royal physician of king Zygmunt I the Old. Chronica Polonorum was first published in 1519.[1][2]

Chronica Polonorum
Cover of second edition of Chronica Polonorum, 1521
AuthorMaciej Miechowita
CountryPoland
LanguageLatin
SubjectHistory of Poland
GenreHistory
PublisherHieronim Wietor, Kraków
Publication date
1519, 1521

Content

The Chronicle describes the history of Poland. It is based on the earlier work of Jan Długosz, supplementing its content with the events leading to the accession of Sigismund the Old to the throne. Although the first edition of the Chronicle was published in 1519, it was confiscated by the authorities.[3] As a result of the intervention of the Senate some passages have been removed, others deeply revised, because a number of nobles felt offended by the hostile description of their ancestors. The book was republished in 1521 without the offending passages about Jagiellons and the Primate Jan Łaski. The Chronicle by Miechowita became a seminal source of data used in the creation of further chronicles by Bernard Wapowski and Marcin Kromer, the author of De origine et rebus GESTIS Polonorum. Miechowita had his Chronica Polonorum republished by printer Hieronim Wietor of Kraków. A supplementary treaty in three volumes written by Ludwik Decjusz (Louis Decius) was added to it as De vetustatibus Polonorum liber I, De Iagellonum familia liber II, and De Sigismundi regis temporibus liber III.[4]

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Notes
  1. Włodzimierz Hubicki, "Fuitne olim alchimia in Academia Cracoviensi lecta?" Kwartalnik historii nauki i techniki 9 (1964): 199–210. UJ, via Internet Archive.
  2. Speech of Professor Franciszek Ziejka at the Celebration of the 600th Anniversary of the Refounding of the Kraków Academy. Jagiellonian University, via Internet Archive.
  3. Robert I. Frost (2015). The Oxford History of Poland-Lithuania: The making of the Polish-Lithuanian union, 1385-1569. Oxford University Press. pp. 266–267. ISBN 978-0198208693.
  4. Chronica Polonorum Wielkopolska Biblioteka Cyfrowa
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