“Lament” Which Was Written by Dominika Morska of the Lviv Convent or a Few Remarks on the Adnotationes by Wawrzyniec Teleżyński, OP

Abstract

The objective of this essay is to show a still untapped source for the history of the Polish Dominican Order and the history of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, which is the work of Wawrzyniec Teleżyński entitled Adnotationes. The article presents a brief biography of this outstanding Dominican historian and discusses his other works, both published in print and in manuscript. Adnotationes provides a wealth of unknown and otherwise unused information on the history of the Dominicans in the modern era. This study also discusses a unique literary text that Teleżyński included in his book, namely a poem by a Dominican nun written after her monastery in Lviv had been closed down in the wake of Joseph ii’s policies against the Church.