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Verba emungendi in Old Czech Bible Translations
Voleková, Kateřina
This paper focuses on the Czech equivalent of the Latin verb emungere ‚to blow the nose, to clean mucus from the nose‘ (emungit Pr 30,33) in four redactions of the Old Czech Bible translation (1st and 2nd redaction: púštie vodu ot sebe; 3rd redaction: vysieká; 4th redaction: vytierá nos).
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The Trade Contacts of Prague Burghers at the Turn of the 14th and 15th Century
Musílek, Martin
The presented text explores the trade contacts between Prague and Bern, and other cities of the Swiss confederation. Precious metal was chiefly exported from the Czech Lands to the Swiss cantons and Swabia, whether in the form of minted silver coins or raw precious metal. Trade was mediated through Nuremberg merchants. The concrete case of several Prague burghers-merchants exemplifies their status in the city, their financial backgrounds, and the mercantile and monetary contacts that were often linked up with foreign commerce houses, the ruling court milieu or the credit possibilities of the Prague Jews. Although during the Hussite Wars (1419–1434), trade with the heretical Bohemia was restricted, the Imperial and Papal trade embargo was frequently bypassed. In the course of the Hussite Wars, a new wave of exportation of Bohemian art objects abroad took place in connection with the emigration of Catholics, where these objects were either sold or deposited by the refugees “for better times”. Thus, the exportation of Bohemian art abroad did not cease even during the Hussite Wars.
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Rediscovered Lviv Manuscript of Prayers and Legends
Svobodová, Andrea
Old Czech “Lviv Manuscript of Prayers and Legends”, originally stored in Lvov University Library and considered as lost since Wold War II, has been recently found in the collection of the National Library in Warsaw. The digital transcription of the entire text will be published in the series of the corpus “Vokabulář webový” administered by the Department of Language Development of the Institute of the Czech Language of the AS CR.
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Roudnice necrologium from 1457–1464 in the State Regional Archives in Třeboň
Dragoun, Michal ; Gaudek, Tomáš
The necrologium of the Roudnice canonry from 1457–1464, deposited in the State Regional Archives in Třeboň, collection Velkostatek (Manor) Třeboň, registratura IA 3K β 28e, is an important source, which has required a description, basic evaluation and edition. Its text was written in one hand and in several details complements the data of the extensive Roudnice necrologium (1333–1516) in the manuscript of the National Library of the Czech Republic XIX B 3. On the appearance of the altar of St Nicholas (Mikuláš) in the church in Roudnice, it adds that it was furnished with statues, and manuscript NK ČR VII C 23 connects it with the specific donation of the parish priest of Libochovice Jan. The necrologium then provides new data on the life of the widow of Jan Smiřický and on the life of their son Václav. The geographical distribution of the records of the necrologium is not wide and unlike the Prague manuscript confraternities are completely neglected. The striking number of women in the data of the necrologium, which is in accord also with other sources (the necrologium of the monastery of the Český Krumlov Friars Minor and Poor Clares), can be evaluated only after thorough study of the Prague manuscript, but the Třeboň necrologium confirms that the Roudnice canonry was not a forgotten institution even after the Hussite storms, it was respected and supported in Roudnice and its environs and its end was rather caused by the repeated war events under the reign of George of Poděbrady than disinterest in its activity.
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Roudnice necrologium from 1457–1464 in the State Regional Archives in Třeboň
Dragoun, Michal
The necrologium of the Roudnice canonry from 1457–1464, deposited in the State Regional Archives in Třeboň, collection Velkostatek (Manor) Třeboň, registratura IA 3K β 28e, is an important source, which has required a description, basic evaluation and edition. Its text was written in one hand and in several details complements the data of the extensive Roudnice necrologium (1333–1516) in the manuscript of the National Library of the Czech Republic XIX B 3. On the appearance of the altar of St Nicholas (Mikuláš) in the church in Roudnice, it adds that it was furnished with statues, and manuscript NK ČR VII C 23 connects it with the specific donation of the parish priest of Libochovice Jan. The necrologium then provides new data on the life of the widow of Jan Smiřický and on the life of their son Václav. The geographical distribution of the records of the necrologium is not wide and unlike the Prague manuscript confraternities are completely neglected. The striking number of women in the data of the necrologium, which is in accord also with other sources (the necrologium of the monastery of the Český Krumlov Friars Minor and Poor Clares), can be evaluated only after thorough study of the Prague manuscript, but the Třeboň necrologium confirms that the Roudnice canonry was not a forgotten institution even after the Hussite storms, it was respected and supported in Roudnice and its environs and its end was rather caused by the repeated war events under the reign of George of Poděbrady than disinterest in its activity.
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Organization of the protest action against Hus's burning at the stake
Novotný, Robert
Based on a prosopographical analysis, the study attempts to capture the organizational context of the origin of the protest letter against Hus's burning at the stake from 2 September 1415. One of the main conclusions is that the majority of the signatories from the ranks of the lower nobility added their seals to the protest action rather from loyalty to their powerful neighbours than expressing their own confessional position.
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Jan Hus at Constance after 6 July 1415
Soukup, Pavel
This paper follows the sources and contexts in which John Hus appeared in the debates at the Council of Constance after his execution on 6 July 1415. In sermons and tracts, the figure of John Hus mainly served as a symbol of heresy. His teaching about the Church and the denial of papal supremacy were most often recalled from among his condemned theses. The Constance discourse about Hus after his burning at the stake laid the foundations to his negative reputation, which was to survive during the following phases of anti-Hussite polemics.
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Hájek’s Chronicle and Old Czech Annals
Černá, Alena M.
According to the specialist literature, the many sources behind Hájek’s Czech Chronicle include chronicles from a set entitled Old Czech Annals, but it has never been precisely determined which of the more than thirty surviving manuscripts are involved. Based on a sample of sixteen reports on events during the Hussite wars appearing in Hájek’s Chronicle and in the Old Czech Annals, we have attempted to establish the source text. We have not found the direct source, but we find most (thirteen) of the identical reports in text R, known as Vratislavský, written between 1515 and 1535. identification of the source text was complicated by the possibility that it had not actually been preserved or that Václav Hájek used more than one text from the Old Czech Annals in his work. the work was also influenced by the fact that Hájek was an unusually creative individual who can be presumed to have not accepted the sources automatically, but to have adapted and recreated their language and contents.
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