In 1579, the printing workshop of Jiří Melantrich of Aventin published Práva městská Království českého [Municipal Laws of the Kingdom of Bohemia] by the Chancellor of the Old Town of Prague, Pavel Kristián of Koldín. The code was then used in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia until 1811. The study builds on and complements the inventory of František Hoffmann, published in 1979. It newly describes Koldín’s Práva městská in 58 manuscript copies and six printed books with handwritten notes.
The oldest translation into Czech of Eneas Silvius Piccolomini´s Historie česká (Historia Bohemica) was completed in 1487 by Uherský Brod vicar Jan Húska, though the autograph of Húska´s translation has not been preserved; it is only known from a single copy in Vatican Library manuscript Reg. lat. 601, produced in the early 16th century. This study gives a detailed codicological description of this manuscript and attempts to find its story before it was taken from Bohemia to Sweden in the mid-17th century as war booty and thence to Rome as part of Queen Christina´s library.
The Krnov Town Museum collections include two medieval manuscripts – a Latin Bible and a German gospel postilla by Nikolaus von Dinkelbühl. Neither manuscript has previously been known to specialist circles. The Bible contains the text of the Latin Vulgate with prologues on most books of the Bible, and it was completed in 1433 by an unknown scribe. From the ownership notes and monograms it was possible to ascertain that its owner was in the second half of the fifteenth century the administrator of the Utraquist Consistory and Chancellor of Prague University Václav Koranda the Younger. The number of manuscripts known today preserved from Koranda's library has come to forty. The Bible was acquired by the museum collections from the Minorite Monastery Library in Krnov in the early 1950s. The second medieval manuscript is the German gospel postilla by Nikolaus von Dinkelsbühl, which is the only known example of this work housed in Czech libraries.
This article brings a codicological analysis of a manuscript belonging to the Carthusian monastery at Tržek near Litomyšl that was found by researching manuscripts relating to Bohemia and held by the Biblioteca Palatina Vaticana. Moreover, the author deals with other preserved manuscripts coming from this monastery and relating to other monasteries of the same order in Bohemia and Moravia in the Middle Ages. Attention is also paid to the destiny of Albert of Sternberg, the founder of the Carthusia.
The plenarium of Načeradec belongs to the ten eldest diocesan missals which have been preserved in Bohemia and Moravia. It can be dated to the second decade of the 14th century according to its script and decoration. Only a small part of the ordinarium and de tempore of the proper missal have been preserved. The original calendar was substituted for a new one at the beginning of the 15th century. Municipal scribes recorded in the free margins of the codex a series of memorial entries which became a pretious source of knowledge of the everyday life in the second half of the 16th and in the first half of the 17th centuries.
The Stefanyk Library of the Ukraine Academy of Sciences in Lvov houses the manuscript of a Czech medieval bible under shelf mark 9 O/Н Од. Зб. 3897. This bible was transcribed 1476-1478 by Jan Záblacký, a scribe of whom no details are known, and contains the complete collection of the books of the Old and the New Testaments without prefaces. We know neither the person who ordered the work nor the first owner, unless it was Jan Záblacký himself. Nor can we determine with any accuracy the place where the bible was written, although at the end of the manuscript Záblacký mentions that he completed it on 9th April 1478 in Kamenice, though there are several towns and villages of that name in Bohemia and Moravia. The times recorded by Jan Záblacký for individual books of the bible are of interest and value, as they enable us to reconstruct the rate at which the scribe transcribed the bible text and the average daily amount of text transcribed.
This article analyses in detail a land register dating from the year 1733 (Sg. 1976) which was found recently in Rome, focusing on its contents and on the wider context of the contents. The manuscript brings furthermore a history of the convent in prose and in vers the translation of which consitutes a part of the article.
This article deals with the collection of manuscript fragments housed in the State District Archive in Kutná Hora. The collection contains 63 solely parchment fragments dating from the 13th to 16th centuries and taken off the bindings of Town books. They are mostly fragments of liturgical manuscripts, of the Bible commentaries, however fragments of canonical-legal texts, a fragment of the synodal statuta or hagiographic texts have survived as well.
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