Niezrealizowany projekt wydawniczy biskupa Jana Pawła Woronicza

This article was written as a result of the discovery of a manuscript copy of a letter from Bishop Jan Paweł Woronicz to Franciszek Morawski in the collection of the Czartoryski Library in Krakow (fonds: Adam Jerzy Czartoryski. Korespondencja [1806–1853] – Woronicz Jan biskup krakowski). In the document, the priest raised the topic of his planned collective publication of all sermons and speeches delivered during the funeral of Prince Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski. He was assisted in this project by historian Karol Sienkiewicz. Woronicz planned to have the collection published in 1826 by the Jan Bogumił Korn Printing House in Wrocław and have it feature a portrait of the late prince. Therefore, on the basis of the 54th issue of "Kurier Litewski" from 1823, as well as manuscripts and prints from the Czartoryski Library related to the funeral of Prince Czartoryski (fonds: Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski: Mowy i kazania pogrzebowe oraz wiersze na śmierć ś.p. Adama [Kazimierza] Księcia Czartoryskiego Generała Ziem Podolskich and Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski Pogrzebowe księcia Adama [Kazimierza] Czartoryskiego Generała Ziem Podolskich w r. 1823 – różne zapisy i rozporządzenia), it was established that a total of nineteen speeches and sermons were delivered during the funeral ceremonies, which began in Sieniawa in March and ended in Warsaw in April 1823. This, in turn, made it possible to determine what might have been the content of the bishop’s planned, but ultimately not printed, publication. Moreover, the article includes a letter from Morawski to Bishop Woronicz, which is kept in the same archival fonds as the copy of the clergyman’s letter. The manuscript is an important addition to the described issue. It focuses on the inscription on the bust of Czartoryski, whose author was Princess Maria Wirtemberska. Morawski’s task was to edit this text so that it would fit on the prince’s monument. The letters compiled in the article show that both Bishop Woronicz and his contemporaries were attached to Prince Czartoryski, which was reflected in the planned publication of speeches and sermons, including the appropriately arranged inscription on the bust.