Sběratelský artefakt, nebo projev konfesionality? Bible v knihovnách české renesanční šlechty:

• Authors: Lenka Veselá , Jindřich Marek

Title variants

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Collectors’ items or manifestations of confessionality? Bibles in book collections of Bohemian renaissance nobility:

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The extant research on the role of the Bible during the Reformation has focused primarily on then-efforts to make the biblical text widely accesible. On the contrary, book collections of this period have not received sufficient attention, even though it is obvious that both printed and manuscript Bibles were not only read during the second half of the 16th century, but they also became objects of purposeful collecting. The most extensive collections of Bibles in the Czech Lands prior to 1620 could be found in the libraries of the Rosenberg Family (the total of 10,000 books out of which 165 were Bibles) and of Ferdinand Hoffmann of Grünbüchl (almost 4,000 books out of which 140 were printed Bibles and there were probably also dozens of biblical manuscripts). Their comparison showed that the noble owners paid extraordinary attention to their collections, yet in a slightly different manner. The owners’ confessionality influenced their Bible collections only to a limited extent – although the Bibles in both collections fulfilled a role of a symbolic expression of piety, they served mainly as collectors’ items.

Keywords

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aristocratic libraries; the Bible; Ferdinand Hoffmann of Grünbüchl; Petr Vok of Rosenberg; Bohemia; Moravia; the 1550–1620 period

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Folia historica Bohemica
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 35
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 5-27
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

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Lenka Veselá

• Folia historica Bohemica, redakce, Historický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Prosecká 76, 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic

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Jindřich Marek

• Folia historica Bohemica, redakce, Historický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Prosecká 76, 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic

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Daniela Reischlová

• Folia historica Bohemica, redakce, Historický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Prosecká 76, 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic