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.
A large Latin encyclopaedia entitled Liber viginti arcium (The Book on Twenty Arts) was written by Master Paulerinus (Pavel Žídek, Paulus de Praga) in the sixteeth of the 15th century and it is saved as a unique ms. in Cracow, Jagellonian Library, 257. The present contribution contains a first edition of meteorological part of this work (fol. 170rb-172rb), supplemented by Czech translation and commentary. For comparison with this text some parallels are excerpted expecially from Glossarium by Master Claretus de Solencia (c. 1360) and from Nomenclator by Daniel Adam of Veleslavín (published in 1598).
This article deals with the effort to enable access to the manuscript library of the Metropolitan Chapter in Olomouc held by the Land Archives in Opava, branch Olomouc nowadays. The list of the law manuscripts made by law historians Miroslav Boháček and František Čáda in the years 1952-1956 was followed by the List of the manuscripts of the Olomouc. Chapter compiled in the year 1957-1958 and published in 1961 in which the Olomouc archivist Jan Bistřický also took part. In the conclusion, an unsuccessful attempt to compile a complete catalogue of manuscripts is mentioned.
This article is devoted to the work of the Custodian of the Prague Imperial-Royal University Library (now the National Library of the Czech Republic) Josef Truhlář (1849-1914, at the library 1865-1907), who is known as the author of still used catalogues of manuscripts and monographs on humanism in the Czech Lands. The study focuses on Truhlář´s less known scientific work he carried out as a literary historian and editor in the field of medieval Old-Czech and Latin literature.
This article deals with a short Old Czech treatise on perjury which is written in a manuscript dating from the first half of the 15th century (Prague Castle Archive, Metropolitan Chapter Library by St. Vitus, Number H 10, fol. 270v). It is the unique coherent Czech text contained in this codex which according to its writing originated between the years 1416-1450. The analysis shows that it is a translation of a chapter of the second part of the Decretum Gratiani (causa XXII, questio V, capitulum V) not found elsewhere. The Old Czech text is compared with the Latin wording and with a passage of identic contents in the Czech work by M. Jan Hus called Výklad delší na desatero přikázanie. The executed analysis shows that some details in the Staročeský slovník and in the critical edition of the work by Hus need to be revised.
The article deals with the external analysis of a part of the manuscript dating from the 15th century which contains a collection of letters of the archbishop Jan of Jenštejn; it was coped at the end of the 14th century and published 1877 by J. Loserth under the title Jenštejn´s Epistolary. The text focuses on the adjustment of the quires and character and order of the letters copied, as well as on the text corrections made by another scribe. It concludes that the manuscript originated under the direct supervision of the archbishop who transmitted the papers of individual letters to the scribe step by step for copying them and then he polished their stylistic form and corrected them. The conserved manuscript came into being in the year 1398 in Herštejn and as a whole it represents the concept of Jenštejn´s new autobiographic work analogous to Petrarca´s Familiares. The epistolary has never been transcribed into definitive form for the public.
The study deals with preserved historiographical works by several Litoměřice citizens, and expecially with a little collection of texts dating from the 17th century which contains also annalistic records daring from the years 1589-1615. The author of these annalistic records might have been Viktorin Šermer. Besides the annalistic records the collection also contains other texts, first of all various medical recipes and economic advice. Their contents allow the reader to obtain a picture of mentality of a city family at the beginnning of the baroque period.
This study deals with the historiography of the mining town Jáchymov. In the 16th century a few historiographic works originated, the most attractive of which being the chronicle by Johan Mathesius, a pastor in Jáchymov, and his folllowers. The works by Johan Seltenreich and David Hüter, local scribes, are less known. The writings are housed in the Jáchymov Municipal Archive and in the National Museum Archive in Prague.
The Strahov manuscript DE IV 23 has preserved and included apart from a Hus´s and an anonymous holiday postil, also a collection of other texts by an anonymous author. It is an interpretation of a part of chapters 24 and 25 of the St. Matthew´s Gospel, completed with an intepretation of a part of three chapters of the old Testament Book of Job. The Jobian anonymous sermons are similar to the Book of Job Latin interpretations by Master Jakoubek of Stříbro (Jacobellus de Misa) in their form and content, but the evidence for Jakoubek´s authorship cannot be proved. The anonymous interpretation of the Book of Job might have originated before the Hussite Revolution broke out and although it is based on the traditional authority of the Moralia by Gregory the Great, it is unambiguously indebted to the Hussite Movement but not to its radical stream.
This article presents shortly the origin of the list of the manuscripts of the National Museum in Prague which was achieved in the year 1917 by František Michálek Bartoš and published as a book in the years 1926-1927. It deals with its supplements by Václav Flajšhans and F. M. Bartoš. Bartoš´s list of the supplements having been prepared during the 1950th for stamp by its author is published here.
The Krakow missale has been supposed to originate at the end of the 15th century but its ornaments refer to the Czech book painting of the first half of the 15th century. The antiphonary of Zbigniew Oleśnicki plays an important role in this context. The local ornaments are the work of a workshop specialist undoubtedly of the Czech origin. The identic ornamental system of the Krakow missale shows that te manuscript is the work of the workshop of the Antiphonary of Zbigniew Oleśnicki. The Krakow missale can therefore be supposed to be dated as of 1420.
The article deals with a gothic bible recently found and coming from a private property in Olomouc (Czech Republic). The codex belongs to the category of "Paris bibles" by its text structure and to the category of "hand-bibles" by its external appearance - this kind of bibles was primarily intended for the need of private study. This well conserved codex is decorated with a great number of initials. As far as the illuminations are concerned the nearest parallels to them can be found in the works of the so-called workshop Mathurin existing in Northern France during the second third of the 13th century. These affinites allow to define the time of the origin of the Olomouc copy in the mid-13th century and to locate it in some of the centres of Northern France -. which nevertheless cannot be identified till now.
This article deals with a legacy report of six books to the Augustinian Canon monastery in Třeboň which was writen down in the years 1460-1468 by Martin of Třeboň, a physician. Two of the manuscripts were identified in the holding of the National Library of the Czech Republic today and moreover, further manuscripts belonging to Martin not mentioned in the legacy were found. They are also held in the National Library of the Czech Republic and by the National Library in Vienna. Another codex belonging to the same owner may be held by the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. The contents of the manuscripts indicate that Martin intended to build up his library as and expert reference library with special regard to medicine and natural sciences but it also contained manuscrips of other branches.
The article is dedicated to a currently unknown album of Jan Rejchart of Štampach dating from the years 1589-1610 and containing primarily records from two important travels in which Štampach participated as a member of diplomatic delegations to Constantinople in the years 1591/1592 (in the delegation of Friedrich von Krekwitz) and to Moscow (in that of Mikuláš Varkoč). Further records show first of all Štampach´s travel unknown up to now to the Imperial Diet in Regensburg in the year 1594 and his short journey at the university in Altdorf and in the imperial city of Nuremberg at the turn of the years 1598/1599, revealing in this way contacts and fortunes of this less known nobleman.
This article deals with Latin medieval manuscripts coming from the holding of the Franciscan monastery in Cheb which were bought together with the complete book collection of the monastery for the National Library of the Czech Republic in 2008. Originally the Minorite monastery was founded in Cheb in 1247 already but the preserved manuscripts date from the period after the monastery was reformed in 1465. The holding of the monastery in Cheb amounts to more than 160 manuscript volumes, nevertheless only 17 of them are medieval, 7 Latin, and 10 German. More than 30 convoluts of incunabuls and early printed books contain at least one Latin manuscript adligat. Several independent manuscript fragments also belong to this medieval manuscript material. The attached list describes all Latin medieval manuscripts contained in the holding, including manuscript adligats and manuscript fragments.
This article is devoted to Miroslav Boháček (1899-1982), the first editor of the periodic publication Manuscripts Studies which celebrates its 50th anniversary. The author describes Boháček´s life dedicated to teaching research, and editorial work. She describes how the change of the political regime in 1948 influenced the life of one of the leading Czech Romanists, a sifgnificant professor who was forced to leave the university. Later on, supported by Prof. Vojtíšek, Boháček found application in manuscripts research. Due to his precise, accurate work with manuscripts he achieved great success and recognition among codicologists.
The authors focus on the study of selected articles concerning duties of city authorities in Brno law manuscripts (the Brno law book dating from the mid-144th century and its shortened extract Manipulus vel derectorium iuris civilium daint from the circa 1380th) and in their conserved Czech translations dating from the 16th century. They show that the Czech verson recorded in one of the manuscripts held by the Brno City Archive may be rather a translation of the version enriched with the Jihlava articles, i. e. the so-called Liber iuris civilium. Brikci of Licsko who was the first to codify the municipal law seems to have at his disposal, in addition to other papers, also this translation of the Manipulus or rather Liber. On the other side, the authors find here feed-backs unknown tlll now, i. e. the reflection of the Prague laws in the Brno milieu.
The paper analyses book and illumination production in the central part of the South West Bohemia. The theme is studied on the basis of the material preserved in the region but also in connection with the production of the exiled artists and those living out of the region. The chronological criterion is combined with the typological analysis, cultural historical context (with includes also an analysis of the utilitarian bellow the average production). The regional production has been compared to the Central European illumination of the period.
The first part of the study presents comprehensively the late medieval manuscript K 16 of the Metropolitan Chapter Library in Prague. By the analysis of its structure, contents, and chronology of the texts the author determines the genesis of the manuscript in three layers well distinguished. The second part of the work verifies the identity of its primary user and focuses on the hussite conservative master and lawyer Jan of Jesenice. He studies the connections of fhis biography and work with the manuscript and he finds a very tight, although indirect relation in all aspects researched. In general, the study is a contribution to opening further ways of studying a late medieval manuscript miscellany.
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