Chronica Polonorum (1519)

Chronica Polonorum

Cover of second edition of Chronica Polonorum, 1521
Author Maciej Miechowita
Country Poland
Language Latin
Subject History of Poland
Genre History
Publisher Hieronim Wietor, Kraków
Publication date
 1519, 1521

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

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 0198208693.
  4. ↑ Chronica Polonorum Wielkopolska Biblioteka Cyfrowa
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