Apie Konstantino Sirvydo „Promptuarium“ egzempliorių

ZIGMAS ZINKEVIČIUS ABOUT A COPY OF KONSTANTINAS SIRVYDAS’S PROMPTUARIUM Only one defective copy of Konstantinas Sirvydas’s earliest dictionary has survived, without its title page, and it is held in Moscow, at the Central State Archive of Ancient Acts. The historian Ingė Luošaitė established that it was called not Dictionary of Three Languages (the title of Sirvydas’s later dictionary, which was reprinted many times), but A Treasury of Polish, Latin and Lithuanian Words, in Latin Promptuarium dictionum Polonicarum, Latinarum et Lituanicarum. She found a dictionary with this title in a manuscript catalogue of books from the library of the Reformation figure Saliamonas Risinskis (d. 1625), and no one other than Sirvydas had published a Lithuanian dictionary by then. Kazimieras Pakalka, a researcher of Sirvydas’s dictionaries, established from the watermarks that it was published before 1620. Vincas Urbutis determined that Promptuarium differed greatly from Sirvydas’s later dictionary. It was an entirely different dictionary, much smaller in scope. For more on all this, see Zigmas Zinkevičius. The Language of the Old Writings (History of the Lithuanian Language, vol. III), Vilnius: Mokslas, 249–250. In 2008, the Lithuanian Catholic Academy of Science published the visitation records of the Breslauja deanery from 1782–1783: The Visitation of the Breslauja Deanery in 1782–1783, Conducted by Order of Vilnius Bishop Ignas Jokūbas Masalskis (Sources of Lithuanian History 7), ed. Romualdas Firkovičius. Vilnius: Catholic Academy, 2008. The book list (p. 272) included in the visitation record for the Drūkšiai (Drisvėtai) parish of this collection of documents (pp. 249–274) contains the following entry: Promptorium Exemplorum 1. Most likely, this is Sirvydas’s old dictionary. It says Promptorium instead of Promptuarium, but the titles of other books in the list are also imprecise and greatly abbreviated. At that time, the Drūkšiai parish was still Lithuanian and only slightly Polonized. This is evident from the names of settlements that were Lithuanian but written only in Polish, such as Auksztagiry, Berženiszki, Kiszkieliszki, Mažutyszki, Posamanie, Żwirynie, and others. Moreover, the visitation records of parishes farther east—Apso, Breslauja, Druja, Ikaznė, and Pohostas—also contain many Lithuanian place names, indicating that the region had not yet been Polonized, but only influenced by Polish. Examples include: Berželi, Bindryna, Daubory, Dowiaty, Dukieliszki, Czepuki, Ejwidowicze, Januciszki, Jody, Jurgiszki, Kiszkieliszki, Pastabos / Notes 169 ZIGMAS ZINKEVIČIUS Kumpinie, Łapinie, Micele, Mylasze, Milki, Minawty, Narucie, Narejkiszki, Pirtynie, Pliki, Plikiszki, Poberże, Podziszki, Purwiniszki, Puszkele, Rymucie, Rowbie, Swiluki, Śniegiszki, Szakiela, Szalcinowo, Szarkowszczyzna, Szaury, Schemele, Szewieliszki, Trakiele, Wajcie, Warnele, Warniszki, Wejeliszki, Werki, Wilkieliszki, Żejmiany, Żusele, Żwirble, Żwirbliszki, Żwirynie. It seems that a Lithuanian dictionary was also relevant and useful to priests who did not know Lithuanian. An interesting entry appears in the book list (p. 341) included in the visitation record for the Miorai parish (next to the Druja, Ikaznė and Dysna parishes) (pp. 331–342): Nabożeństwo codzienne językiem łotewskim. It is unlikely that the entry mistakenly says językiem łotewskim instead of litewskim (cf. the Lithuanian names of this parish, Gierwiaty, Ożugiary, Parszeli, and others), especially since we have no information about a book or manuscript of daily Lithuanian services, or about such services themselves. Most likely, a Latvian book (perhaps a manuscript?) is listed here. Latvian may have been relevant to the priests of the Miorai parish at that time. Apparently Latvians also lived there; compare the settlement name Łotyszki and, in the neighboring Druja parish, Łotysze. All this should interest researchers of the history of the Latvian language, who would benefit from examining the aforementioned entry in the context of Latvian language history. 170 Acta Linguistica Lithuanica LXIV–LXV