Středověké rukopisy z knihovny hrabat von Manderscheid-Blankenheim dochované ve fondu Národní knihovny České republiky

Author(s): Milada Svobodová / Language(s): Czech Issue: 46/2016

The library of the Counts von Manderscheid-Blankenheim at Blankenheim Castle was established in the 1470s and closed after Napoleon's army invaded the Rhineland in 1794. The last owner of the castle, Augusta von Sternberg-Manderscheid, probably took some of the books to the Sternberg Palace in Prague. After the sale of the Sternberg library in 1830, it was incorporated into the Lobkowicz princes' Prague palace library, with which it was incorporated into the National Library of the Czech Republic fonds in 1928. The present study presents the results of research into the manuscript fonds of the Prague Lobkowicz library, which was based on the discovered Lobkowicz list of purchased Sternberg manuscripts. It presents a total of seven manuscripts of Blankenheim origin from the first half of the 13th century to the first half of the 16th century.

Rukopis kartuziánského kláštera v Tržku ve vatikánské knihovně Palatina a nové poznatky k osobě zakladatele tržecké kartouzy Alberta ze Šternberka

Author(s): Stanislav Petr / Language(s): Czech Issue: 41/2011

This article brings a codicological analysis of a manuscript belonging to the Carthusian monastery at Tržek near Litomyšl that was found by researching manuscripts relating to Bohemia and held by the Biblioteca Palatina Vaticana. Moreover, the author deals with other preserved manuscripts coming from this monastery and relating to other monasteries of the same order in Bohemia and Moravia in the Middle Ages. Attention is also paid to the destiny of Albert of Sternberg, the founder of the Carthusia.

Liturgické rukopisy italských dominikánů z akvizice olomouckého arcibiskupa Theodora Kohna

Author(s): Jana Hrbáčová,Stanislav Červenka / Language(s): Czech Issue: 41/2011

This article analyses six Northitalian Dominican liturgical codices with musical notation held by the Archbishop Library of the Kroměříž Castle which were bought in Vienna by Theodor Kohn, the archbishop of Olomouc, in 1895. Three of them are antiphonaries, three psalteries which bring evidence of the musical state of liturgy in the Lombardian Dominican Province from the 14th century´s first decennies until the 18th century. Four of them (nrs. 1–4) are valuable documents of the Northitalian illumination of the 14th – 17th centuries of Bononian and Ferrara´s circuits.

Latinské rukopisy Herbáře Křišťana z Prachatic

Author(s): Dana Stehlíková / Language(s): Czech Issue: 40/2010

This article focuses on the Latin work Herbarius by M. Cristannus of Prachatice († 1439) and its manuscript tradition. It brings an uptodated inventory of the manuscripts containing Cristannus´s herbarium (it presents primarily the record of the Herbarius in the work Confundarium maius by Matouš Beran in the manuscript I E 35 of the Prague National Library, ff. 61r –92v.) The author tries to outline the relationship between the five important manuscripts of the Herbarius which contain two rather different redactions of this famous work.

Dva příspěvky z pozůstalosti

Author(s): Jaroslav Kadlec / Language(s): Czech Issue: 41/2011

Jaroslav KADLEC, Master Matouš Beran; Masters of Charles University as synodal preachers

Annales historiam regni Bohemiae et urbis Pragensis ab anno 1278 usque ad 1399 illustrantes

Author(s): Marie Bláhová / Language(s): Czech,Latin Issue: 39/2009

This study deals with two short Latin annalistic texts of Czech provenance dating from the turn of the 14th and 15th century which have been written according to two different models on a free place of ms. 5483 in the holdings of the Austrian National Library in Vienna and collected in one series of annals. The article examines the reference of these texts to other similar texts coming from the Czech late middle ages environment. The contents of the Annals is information about the last Přemyslides, genealogic records about Czech Luxemburger and news about what happened mostly in Prague in the 14th century.

Původ textu Avicennae Canon abbreviatus a jeho opisy v českých rukopisných fondech

Author(s): Hana Florianová / Language(s): Czech Issue: 49/2/2019

The article deals with six copies of a medical compendium recently identified in manuscripts kept in Czech libraries. This compendium, called Avicennae Canon abbreviatus in foreign catalogues, has a distinctive prologue. According to the prologue, it was originally a university lecture, but it has not been clear at which university it was given. Two recently identified texts state that the university in question was the University of Vienna. The reworked lecture circulated in two redactions.

Poddanská města a městečka na Jihlavsku do husitských válek

Author(s): Stanislav Vohryzek / Language(s): Czech Issue: 2/2020

Dealing with the nobility’s relationship with their non-royal towns and townlets in the pre-Hussite period is often difficult due to the lack of written sources. Therefore, it is also necessary to use information on the development of localities, which provides a breakdown of their spatial layout, art history and archaeology. Determining a locality’s state of developmental in a certain period is often difficult. This paper outlines the development of non-royal market localities in the Jihlava region and their relationship with their aristocratic owners in the aforementioned period.

Erbouwen hiez Vavianâ und wart Wiennâ genant.

Author(s): Anna Zvířecí / Language(s): Czech Issue: 2/2020

This paper contains a treatise on the description of the founding of Vienna in The Book of Princes by Jans Enikel († approx. 1302). This description is presented in contemporary Middle High German verse literature as a solitary work. Enikel’s narrative about Vienna was adopted by the chroniclers Leopold of Vienna and Thomas Ebendorfer in the 14th and 15th centuries.

Byl otec kancléře Prokopa z Rabštejna a humanisty Jana z Rabštejna žateckým konšelem?

Author(s): David Kozler / Language(s): Czech Issue: 2/2020

Jan of Rabštejn († approx. 1450), the father of Chancellor Prokop († probably 1470), the humanist Jan (1437–1473) and three other Rabštejn brothers, is identified in the literature with Ješek Rabštejn, who was a member of the town council in Žatec multiple times between 1402 and 1414. The aim of this paper is to provide a critical examination of this repeatedly stated yet never confirmed hypothesis. The author places the examined matter in the broader context of research on the settlement of the nobility in Bohemian towns in the late Middle Ages, observes the genesis of the current interpretation and, based on an analysis of relevant sources, reaches the conclusion that the nobleman Jan of Rabštejn and the Žatec burgher Ješek Rabštejn were very probably two different people.

Lutyšský elekt dobývá Lutych.

Author(s): Zuzana Bolerazká / Language(s): Czech Issue: 2/2020

This paper focuses on the complicated relations between medieval towns and the ruling elites in what is now Belgium and the Netherlands. It is illustrated by the uprising that broke out against the local elected bishop John III of Bavaria in Liège and was bloodily suppressed. Even though John succeeded in controlling Liège by force, he abandoned the town and its surrounding area when he was offered a very uncertain possibility of governing elsewhere a few years later. This is thus one of many examples in which there is no proper settlement of relations between the ruler and the town in this area.

Veliké strašidlo, Herodes a mrcha ohyzdná.

Author(s): Matouš Vanča / Language(s): Czech Issue: 2/2020

The paper works with sources that describe the rule of Master Jan Pašek z Vratu over the unified towns of Prague and come primarily from his sworn adversaries. The text analyses the “denunciation strategy” used by Pašek’s opponents and shows that a significant part of the assertions about Pašek is in fact an inversion of the generally recognised ideal of a virtuous Christian ruler.

Topografia sakralna średniowiecznego Gdańska jako problem badawczy

Author(s): Rafał Kubicki / Language(s): Polish Issue: 25/2022

One of the main aspects of space in the medieval town consisted of various kinds of sacred structures, above all, parish churches, but also churches belonging to religious houses and hospital chapels. Many spheres of the social life of the town centred on them, both in terms of community (corporate ones involving forms of collective religious experience within guilds and brotherhoods) and of individual experience (private piety). The article considers the issue in relation to the settlement complex of medieval Gdańsk, which initially was a city under Lübeck law, which after its destruction became three town centres successively established in the fourteenth century: the Gdańsk Main Town, the Gdańsk Old Town, and the Gdańsk Young Town. It is important to note that within them were pre‑existing and newly built parish and sister churches, hospital chapels, and churches attached to religious houses. All such buildings are of interest in the sacred topography of the settlement complex in the Middle Ages. Detailed studies of this topic should contribute to a fuller picture of the social history of Gdańsk in the late Middle Ages with special reference to functioning church institutions, not only in an institutional sense, but also as a social network linking various social levels among its inhabitants, both individually and collectively.

The Other Faces of the Empire: Ordinary Lives Against Social Order and Hierarchy

Author(s): Bahar Bayraktaroğlu / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2022

Fırat Yaşa (ed.) 2022. The Other Faces of the Empire: Ordinary Lives Against Social Order and Hierarchy. Trans. by Esra Taşdelen. Istanbul: Koç University Press. 320 pp. ISBN: 978-605-7685-68-1

Ke sporům o Viklefa a jeho 45 článků (II)

Author(s): Dušan Coufal / Language(s): Czech Issue: 1-2/2020

The study sheds new light on the genesis of the 45 articles of John Wyclif condemned by the University of Prague in 1403. Based on the study of the manuscripts, the author draws attention to the hitherto unknown redaction of the articles. By its analysis, he proves that the Prague master Johannes Hübner did not select some of the condemned propositions directly from Wyclif’s books, as was previously thought, but took them from this neglected redaction. The author traces its origins against the background of Wyclif’s English ecclesiastical prosecution, and also examines its reception in Bohemia. The study includes a list of the manuscripts of 45 articles and their three redactions, two of which the author critically publishes in print for the first time in an appendix.

Zu den Histamena des Romanos III. Argyros im Karpatenbecken

Author(s): Péter Prohászka / Language(s): German Issue: 1/2023

In this paper we present and analyse the histamena (gold coins) of Romanos III. Argyros found in the territory of the former Hungarian Kingdom. The majority of these coins are known from literary and archival sources. Only the coins from Pétermonostora (County Bács-Kiskun/H) and Székesfehérvár (County Fejér/H) had got to museums and about the others only descriptions are available. Most coins are scattered finds but we have information about some nomisma of Romanos III. Argyros from the Etyek-Bóthpuszta hoard (County Fejér/H). Here we'll analyse their role outside the Byzantine Empire as compared to the coin circulation in the medieval Hungarian Kingdom.

Some Remarks on the Annals of Hradisko and Opatovice’s Foreign Sources

Author(s): Adrien Quéret-Podesta / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

Written in the middle of the twelfth century, the Annals of Hradisko and Opatovice show an extensive use of Bohemian and Moravian sources, but also of foreign works. The main foreign source which the annalist had at disposal was a ‘universal chronicle’ which he used to relate information concerning general history until the end of the tenth century, but two entries of the Annals of Hradisko and Opatovice also show influence of Regino of Prüm’s Chronicle and its continuation. The analysis of the use of the Chronicon Universale as well as of Regino of Prüm’s Chronicle and its continuation in the Annals of Hradisko and Opatovice shows that these sources have a different function. The extensive use of the Chronicon Universale in the first part of the annals aims indeed to put the events concerning Bohemia and Moravia in a broader perspective whereas the entries of Regino of Prüm’s Chronicle and its continuation, which the author borrowed from a Bohemian annalistic work, owe their integration to the national historiography to their contribution to the narrative of Bohemia’s past. The coexistence of those two uses, which can be respectively described as “metanational/universal” and “national” is however not specific to these annals, since it can also be spotted in other twelfth century Bohe­mian historiographical writings.

Boris Bove, Stoletá válka

Author(s): Václav Drška / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

Dana Dvořáčková-Malá, Dvůr jako téma. Výzkum panovnické společnosti v českém středověku — historiografie, koncepty, úvahy

Author(s): Martin Šenk / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

Brian Tierney, Foundations of the Conciliar Theory. The Contribution of the Medieval Canonists from Gratian to the Great Schism

Author(s): Klára Šárovcová / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2022