Vade-mecum is the most important collection of poetry by Cyprian Kamil Norwid.

[2] After Norwid's death, the manuscript of Vade-mecum was kept by his relatives, the Dybowski family and in 1898 it became the property of Zenon Przesmycki.

[1] Przesmycki died during the Warsaw Uprising, but his archives, together with Norwid's legacy, were saved and after the World War II found their way to the National Library of Poland.

[2] A phototype of manuscript was published by Wacław Borowy in 1947 and it was used as the basis for the first edition of Vade-mecum (Tunbridge, England 1953).

[2] A critical edition of Norwid's cycle was prepared in 1966 by Juliusz Wiktor Gomulicki.