Die Freiberger „Hussitenhandschrift“ X 8o 40 im Kontext einer Neudatierung
The Freiberg ‘Hussite Manuscript’ X 8o 40 in the Context of the new Dating

Summary/Abstract: In 1877 Josef Pekař first described the Hussite composite manuscript stored in Freiberg, Saxony, with the signature X 8o 40, which has now been re-dated to around 1510 due to the watermarks examined for the first time in the Leipzig handwriting center. The author of the present study analyzes the important content of the manuscript, which includes an old Czech translation of the Konstanz trial files of the Magisters Jan Hus and Hieronymus von Prag and, as the only source, the chronicle about the Hussite captain Jan Žižka, which was written between 1434 and 1470. The second and third parts of the study deal with the contextualization and transmission of the manuscript against the local background of the Reformation and finally with the description of the external characteristics of the Freiberg Hussite manuscript that has been made so far.

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