Stanisław Pachołowiecki’s Atlas of the Principality of Polotsk from 1580 – a Transcription and Translation Cover Image

Atlas Księstwa Połockiego Stanisława Pachołowieckiego z 1580 roku – transkrypcja i przekład
Stanisław Pachołowiecki’s Atlas of the Principality of Polotsk from 1580 – a Transcription and Translation

Author(s): Grzegorz Franczak
Subject(s): Historical Geography, Maps / Cartography, 16th Century, Translation Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: history of cartography, atlas; Stanisław Pachołowiecki; Stephen Báthory; Tomasz Treter; Giovanni Battista Cavalieri; Polotsk; Koziany; Krasne; Sitno; Sokol; Susza; Turovla; Livonian War;

Summary/Abstract: This paper contains a transcription (modernized according to the norms set out by Academia Latinitati Fovendae) and a Polish translation of titles, inscriptions and Latin explanations, from eight cartographic relics that constitute The Atlas of the Principality of Polotsk, of Stanisław Pachołowiecki (1580).

  • Issue Year: 19/2017
  • Issue No: 1 (42)
  • Page Range: 61-74
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish