Abstract

The Archive of the Dictionary of Adam Mickiewicz’s Language (Słownik języka Adama Mickiewicza) is a unique collection of documents created during the compilation of a monumental lexicon of the poet’s works, carried out between the 1950s and 1980s at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The materials include committee minutes, correspondence, index cards, draft entries, and private letters from readers. The archive records not only scholarly debates—such as the role of regionalisms in Mickiewicz’s Polish or the decision to merge prose and poetry into a single dictionary—but also everyday organizational and material struggles under the realities of communist Poland. Among the contributors were leading scholars like Konrad Górski, Stefan Hrabec, Maria Renata Mayenowa, and Stanisław Pigoń, as well as younger researchers at the start of their careers. Today, within the “Archives of the Humanities” project, part of the National Recovery Plan and the DARIAH-PL consortium, selected materials are being digitized and published in TEI format on the TEI Panorama platform. The pilot edition aims to highlight the archive’s richness and scholarly value while providing broad access to this documentation, which is both a source of insight into Mickiewicz’s language and a testimony to the collective effort of the Polish humanities community.