Z dziejów Słownika gwar polskich Jana Karłowicza. Kartoteka i działania wydawnicze

The paper is devoted to the card index to Jan Karłowicz’s Słownik gwar polskich ‘A Dictionary of Polish Dialects’ which was identified by the end of May 2017th and is currently stored at the Archive of Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Polish Academy of Learning in Cracow. The index provides indirect information about the creation of the first general dictionary of Polish dialects, and principally about the lexicographic method employed by Karłowicz. It is also a testimony to an ambitious, though eventually unrealized lexicographic project that was Wielki słownik języka polskiego ‘A Great Dictionary of Polish’ which was meant to comprise general Polish and dialectal vocabulary, and also include the etymological aspect. Archival materials related to the history of publication of the card index are a slice of the history of Polish dialectology which is all the more important in that it exposes the beginnings of this field.