Jan of Mýto’s Bachelor Lecture on the Psalms and its Sources in Thomas Waleys’s Work. A New Light on English-Czech Connections in the Late Middle Ages
Jan of Mýto’s Bachelor Lecture on the Psalms and its Sources in Thomas Waleys’s Work. A New Light on English-Czech Connections in the Late Middle Ages

Summary/Abstract: The study is, on the larger background of Prague university exegesis, analysing the bachelor lecture on Psalms by Jan of Mýto, which has been written most probably in 1395–1401 and survived in the only known incomplete copy in the codex of the National Library of Czech Republic III B 13 (Ps. exegesis 26–41,10). The author bases his study with the use of probe method on Jan’s exegesis of the Psalm 29. He observes, that moral exposition with numerous exempla from the sphere of natural and social phenomena dominates Jan’s exegesis, and he finds out that Jan of Mýto mostly compiled this exegesis from the lecture on Psalms written by the English Dominican Thomas Waleys († 1349?). The study observes the reception of Waleys’ lecture in Bohemia during 15th century and it mentions a probable way it spread in Central Europe through Dominican order studies.

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