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Introduction
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Teyear1725inOrlyk’sDiaryisshort;accordingtothe1988-1989fac
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simileeditionpublishedbytheUkrainianResearchInstitute
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,itcoversonly
afewpages(pp.652-658),onp.659,theyear1726alreadybegins.However,
the“Tempora”edition
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alsocontainsafragment(pp.781-793),missing
fromthefacsimileeditionandasupplementinFrench(pp.795-819)cor
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respondingtothearchivalpaginationfrompp.397to409.Wefindsmall
handwrittennotesinFrenchandLatinunder“NotataexEcclesiaste”(Notes
fromEcclesiastes)onpp.795-798.Itisprobablyasynopsis,asis“ExLibro
Sapientia[e]”(fromtheBookofWisdom)onpp.798-799.Onp.799,there
arelessclearnotes;onpp.800-802,somedifculttoreadglossaryentries,
whilepp.803-805remainblank,andpp.806-808and812areprobably
adrafofsomeglossarywritteninCyrillic.Onpp.814,816-818,onthe
otherhand,wefindnotesfromadictionaryinFrench,possiblyalsoan
index,andpp.809-811,813and815arelefblank.
Likethenotesof1724,thoseof1725andsubsequentyearswerewrit
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teninexileinTessaloniki.Teexceptionispartofthe1724manuscript,
writteninthevillageofGalateia,wheretheHetmantookrefugewith
friendsfromthecholeraepidemicraginginTessalonikifromearly1724.
WealsofindinformationaboutthisepidemicintheDiaryentriesfrom
thefollowingyear.
TeDiarywaswritteninskoropis(Ukrainian:скоропис)-acursive
methodformakingwritingfaster,featuringmanyabbreviations.Year
byyear,Orlyk’swritingbecamefinerandlesslegible.Temanuscript
isnotalwaysasclearasthepublisherofthe1720-1723fragment,Jan
Tokarzewski-Karaszewicz,wrote:“Hetman’shandwritingisclear,theink
hashardlyfaded,andtherearenotmanyplacesdifculttoread.”
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Inhis
Diary,Orlyk’sexperienceofeducationinKyivandVilniuscombineswith
Europeaninfluences,whichcanbeseeninboththecontentofhisnotes
andtheformofhiswriting,whichshowsfeaturesofLatinpalaeography.
Hishandwritingcanbedescribedasminusculewithvaryingletterheights,
andbetweenoneandfourductuscanbeseenincapitalletters.
komparatystyczne),”in:MemuarystykawdawnejPolsce,ed.P.Borek,D.Chemperek,
A.Nowicka-Struska,Kraków2016,pp.161-167.
80Te“Diariuszpodrożny”ofPylypOrlyk(1720-1726)...
81Π.oрлMк,Д.ар.ушподорожн.й...,vol.2,pp.781-818.
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Д.яр.йгетьманаПилипаОрлика...(1936),p.IX.Tepublisherusedtriplenumber-
ing:firstlytheirown,secondlyintroducedintheFrenchdiplomaticarchive,andfinallyused
byOrlyk.Atthesametime,thepublishercarefullyannotatedthepagesfromtheoriginal,
notingthatsomeofthemcontainednodatesatall.
