New Batch of Full-Text Editions
The Editions Catalogue now features a further 11 texts of Bohemian provenance, functionally linked to 23 digitised manuscripts and three early printed books. The oldest work is the Vita of St Wenceslas, known by its incipit as Oportet nos fratres, which most probably dates from the first half of the 11th century; the longest text is the Chronicle of Francis of Prague, the youngest of the continuators of Cosmas of Prague, the first Czech chronicler. Alongside further hagiographical and historiographical texts, including the autobiography of Charles IV, theology is also represented by quaestiones and sermons by John Hus and his contemporary, the Benedictine John of Holešov.
The range of Czech-language and early modern texts is expanded by the renowned and still frequently published Labyrinth of the World and Paradise of the Heart by John Amos Comenius, accompanied by the English translation from 1901 by the Czech patriotic nobleman and historian Francis Lützow. The newly published batch also contains the first German-language text, namely a prayer to the Virgin Mary by the Czech reformer Milíč of Kroměříž (the catalogue already contains the Czech version of the same prayer). In addition, modern Czech translations have been added to two texts already present in the database – the first continuators of Cosmas.
We would like to express our sincere thanks to Dr Jana Zachová and Prof Marie Bláhová for kindly consenting to the processing of their works!
Newly Added Editions
- Carolus IV.: Vita Caroli
- Franciscus Pragensis: Chronica
- Iohannes de Holessow: Quaestio an credi possit in papam
- Iohannes Hus: Quaestio de Moyse legislatore
- Iohannes Hus: Quaestio de supremo rectore
- Iohannes Hus: Sermo de ecclesia: Ite et vos in vineam meam
- Jan Amos Komenský: Labyrint světa a ráj srdce [including English translation]
- Militsch von Kremsier: Mariengebet
- Petrus Clarificator: Vita Iohannis de Jenczenstein
- Vita beati Hroznatae
- Vita sancti Wenceslai (Oportet nos fratres)
