Odnaleziony modlitewnik biskupa chełmińskiego Wikbolda Dobilsteina

• Authors: Marta Czyżak , Arkadiusz Wagner

Title variants

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Discovered prayer book of the bishop of Chełmno Wikbold Dobilstein

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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The subject of the article is the discovered prayer book of the bishop of Chełmno Wikbold Dobilstein (1363–1385). As the history of the manuscript is closely connected with the fate of its owner, the fi rst part of the article addresses the biography of the bishop, particularly the years spent „in exile”: Wikbold left the diocese in 1376 aft er a conflict with local knights and the Teutonic Order. He first settled down in the court of Karthaus (Kartuzy) in Koblenz, and later in the Cistercian Abbey in Altenberg. This was probably the time when the prayer book containing works belonging to the Rhine mystical school were created. It has an impressive cover made by an unknown bookbinder from Cologne from the circle of the Master of the Book of Vows in the second half of the 1370s- the 1380s. The bishop probably bequeathed the prayer book to his library in the castle in Lubawa – it later became the property of the Bernandine convent there. After the convent was cassated in 1821, the prayer book was passed over to the library of a secondary school in Chojnice, and in 1946 it was transported to the University Library in Toruń. It was not until recent years that the abbreviated name of its author was identified as Wikbold Dobilsten.

Keywords

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medieval book; the University Library in Toruń; Cologne; bookbinding

• Publisher: Towarzystwo Naukowe w Toruniu
• Journal: Zapiski Historyczne
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 78
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 99-116

Contributors

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Marta Czyżak

• Biblioteka Uniwersytecka w Toruniu

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Arkadiusz Wagner

• Instytut Informacji Naukowej i Bibliologii, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika