Bibliogr. s. 209-211

The paper presents the description of the manuscript "Reiseerinnerungen 1852-1853" [Travel Memoirs 1852-1853] written in German by Dorothea de Talleyrand-Périgord, Duchess of Sagan (1793-1862), as perceived from the perspective of expectations and challenges connected with its planned edition. The richly ornamented hand-written neo-Gothic volume, currently in the collection of the Jagiellonian Library (BJ Rkp. 7424), records the Duchess’s seven-month journey to Italy. It is interesting due to the relevance of the author, its content, and its visual layer. A well-known representative of the European aristocracy, Dorothea de Talleyrand-Périgord played an important role in Polish culture. The account of her Italian journey reflects her elite connections and interest in art. The description of the manuscript in the present article is to expose expectations and challenges implied by the planned critical edition to be conducted by an interdisciplinary team composed of a historian and a literary scholar