The article discusses medieval accounts of St John’s Church in Toruń from the 15th and the first half of the 16th century. This set of financial records is made up of eight archival units kept in the State Archives in Toruń. The article describes their structure, content, authors and arrangement of the entries; there is also a presentation of the relationship between these accounts and municipal records of the town of Toruń.
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W artykule omówione zostały średniowieczne rachunki kościoła św. Jana w Toruniu pochodzące z XV i pierwszej połowy XVI w. Składa się na nie osiem jednostek archiwalnych przechowywanych w Archiwum Państwowym w Toruniu. Zaprezentowano ich budowę, treść, twórców oraz organizację wpisów. Omówiono także zależności między nimi a księgami miejskimi Torunia.
This article provides a source edition of two instructions for ringing bells at St John the Baptist and St John the Evangelist Church in Toruń (Thorn). The sources come from the collection of archival files related to the history of this church, kept in the State Archives in Toruń. They date back to the first half of the sixteenth century. The authors attempted to establish the purpose of writing down the presented ordinations, characterized the church servants that appear in the source material and examined their duties regarding bell ringing. The article also examines the fees paid for ringing bells during church services and the associated remuneration for bell-ringers. Moreover, particular attention was paid to the liturgical calendar of the parish of St John the Baptist and St John the Evangelist Church in Toruń.
The Tuba Dei bell from the tower of St. Johns’ Church, the present-day Cathedral Basilica in Toruń, is one of the largest bells in Poland. It is also one of Toruń’s most important monuments and symbols of the city. It has attracted the interest of researchers not only on account of its uniqueness, but also because of the ongoing dispute regarding the date it was cast. This paper presents a voice in the discussion regarding the dating of the Tuba Dei bell of Toruń. Source literature has accepted the suggestions of the year 1500 or 1522 and various daily dates, and the discrepancies were based on different ways of reading and interpreting the inscription on the bell. The article is an attempt to verify the hypotheses accepted so far based on written sources that have not been included in the findings. In the course of researching medieval accounts of Toruń churches, the authors found information indicating the date the bell was cast. The St. John’s Church account book from 1520–1553 contains data that clearly establishes it as 27 September 1522.
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