Heiligenkreuz 217 und die Anfänge der Schriftkultur in Böhmen um 1000: die Prager Kirche im Zeitalter Bischofs Thiddag
Heiligenkreuz 217 and the Beginnings of the Written Culture in Bohemia round 1000: The Church of Prague in the Age of Bishop Thiddag

Summary/Abstract: The codicological and paleographical analysis of the ms. Heiligenkreuz, Stiftsbibliothek Nr. 217 combined with the scrutiny of the content introduces the audience into the material evidence for the begginings of the literacy in Bohemia at the end of the 10th century. It demonstrates that the above mentioned codex, which mostly included poenitentials and Carolingian capitularies, was written ca. 950 in today’s Southern Germany. Before 1000, probably c. 990, it was donated to or bought for Prague bishopric (founded 976), where it was not just used and read, but the churchmen also copied in it documents important for Bohemian Church (letter of Stephan V, 885 sent to Moravia), or diverse texts compiled in Prague (contract between St. Adlabert-Vojtěch, bishop of Prague, duke Boleslav II and the elites; two sermons probably written by St. Adalbert).

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