Husarskie zabawy piórem. Obraz towarzystwa rycerskiego w wierszach z rękopisu Biblioteki Jagiellońskiej
Hussars Playing with a Quill. The Picture of the Knight’s Brotherhood in Poems from the Manuscript of the Jagiellonian Library

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the poems written by hussars preserved in a manuscript kept in the Jagiellonian Library (ref. no. Przyb. 217/61). In the rhymed register of a military unit, Aleksander Cedrowski facetiously characterised his comrades known to him personally, while the anonymous author described in a poem the Shrove Tuesday party held by Mikołaj Kisiel, who hosted in his house the hussars mentioned by name. In the poetic letters by Daniel Koźmicki and Andrzej Zborowski, on the other hand, there is a polemic about the condition of the knight and spouse. Th e occasional poems also show the problems with provisions of the hussars who stayed for winter in the Nowogródek Voivodeship (now Navahrudak, Belarus) in 1659.

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