Rajhradské Adovo martyrologium a jeho historický kontext
Martyrologium Adonis from the Benedictine Library in Rajhrad and its Historical Context

Summary/Abstract: Codex R 388, preserved in the library of the Benedictine monastery in Rajhrad, in which especially Martyrologium Adonis is recorded, is of foreign origin. However, it contains numerous Bohemical additions, namely Latin ones written in Carolingian minuscule and Church Slavonic ones written in the Cyrillic script. D. Havel has recently managed to attribute the Latin Bohemical component to the Břevnov scribal workshop of the second half of the 11th century. The same pertains to entries in the Cyrillic script which was only sporadically used in the Czech lands. The codex also contains neume notation which, when compared with other Bohemian notated codices, points to a musical culture very similar to that flourishing in our Benedictine monasteries. Thanks to the legend of Saint Gorgonius, which is preserved in an early medieval codex from the former Metternich library in Kynžvart, we know that Saint Adalbert of Prague already worked with the text of Martyrologium Adonis. With regard to the South European style of treating the parchment, it cannot be ruled out that codex R 388 might be his personal acquisition and therefore a real touch relic of our national martyr. At the same time, it is also one of the few pieces of evidence for the earliest book collections of Czech church institutions and probably directly the Břevnov monastery.

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