Book of Henryków
| Book of Henryków | |
|---|---|
| Księga henrykowska | |
 The oldest known Old Polish sentence, highlighted in red | |
| Language | medieval Latin, Old Polish |
| Date | 1268–1310 |
| Provenance | Cistercian Monastery in Henryków |
| Genre | Chronicle |
| Period covered | 1227–1310 |
The Book of Henryków (
The first part of the 100-page-long book is devoted to the early history of the abbey, from its foundation by Henry the Bearded in 1227 until 1259. The second part includes the later history until 1310. In the record for 1270, a settler from the nearby village is reported to have said to his wife "Day, ut ia pobrusa, a ti poziwai." which could be roughly translated as "Let me, I shall grind, and you take a rest."
The circumstances under which this sentence was written closely reflected the cultural and literary conditions in Poland in the first centuries of its national existence. It appeared in a Latin chronicle, written by a
The Old Polish sentence
The medieval recorder of this phrase, the Cistercian monk Peter of the Henryków monastery, noted "Hoc est in polonico" ("This is in Polish") before quoting it.[4][5][6]
"Unde dicti B[ogwali] Boemi uxor stab[a]t sepissime ad mola[m] molendo. Cui vir suus idem B[ogwalus], compassus dixit: Sine, ut ego etiam molam. Hoc est i[n] polonico: Day, ut ia pobrusa, a ti poziwai." - Book of Henryków (Liber fundationis claustri Sanctae Mariae Virginis in Henrichow), 1270[7]
See also
References
- ^ Allen Kent, Harold Lancour, Jay E. Daily, Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, CRC Press, 1978, pg. 3, [1]
- ISBN 978-83-60528-54-9.
- OCLC 401422861.
- ^ Digital version Book of Henryków in latin
- ISBN 978-83-60528-54-9
- ISBN 83-229-1867-4
- ^ Digital version Book of Henryków
Bibliography
- Elżbieta Olinkiewicz; Katarzyna Radzymińska; Halina Styś (1999). Słownik Encyklopedyczny - Język polski (in Polish). Europa. ISBN 83-87977-20-9. Archived from the originalon 2006-06-27. Retrieved 2006-06-22.
- (in English and Polish) Michał Jacek Mikoś (1999). "Middle Ages: Literary background". Polish Literature from the Middle Ages to the End of the Eighteenth Century. A Bilingual Anthology. Warsaw: Constans. p. 683. ISBN 83-901014-3-2. Archived from the originalon 2013-07-06. Retrieved 2006-06-22.