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The fact that America as an exotic curiosity formed an important part of Czech knowledge of the near and more distant world of the period is illustrated on particular examples of three Czech 16th century works dealing with the New World and its inhabitants — Mikuláš Bakalář’s work On the New World (1506), Czech Cosmography by Zikmund of Púchov (1554), and the Czech translation of the work History of the Voyage to America, Called Also Brasilia by Jean de Léry (1590). The article is complemented by a rich bibliography referring to particular individual phenomena.
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Treatise on the Holy Land (Traktát o zemi svaté), printed by Mikuláš Bakalář of Pilsen in 1498, belongs to the oldest travelogues written in Czech. Up to now, the text has been considered by scholars as a shortened translation of Bernhard of Breydenbachís bestseller Peregrinatio ad Terram sanctam from 1486. Comparing the Czech text with another German travelogue Die Reise ins gelobte Land, written by the Nuremberg merchant Hans Tucher senior in 1482, the article demonstrates that the Czech incunable was directly translated from this source. Several aspects of this translation are analyzed, such as the process of shortening the original text, the omission of its autobiographical parts, translational strategies and mistakes. The edition of the Treatise on the Holy Land, preserved only in two copies, is presented as a supplement.
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