Medieval Manuscripts from the National Library of the Czech Republic
The first part of the manuscripts digitised from the collections of the National Library of the Czech Republic in 2022 comprises 27 medieval codices placed under the shelfmarks I–VI. Most of the manuscripts are of Czech origin and were written in the 14th and 15th centuries. In terms of content, they mainly include various theological writings and collections of sermons. Among the works of Czech authors, access has been provided to the commentary of Jan Rokycana on two letters of the Apostle Paul (shelfmark IV A 24). Some volumes also contain works on the natural sciences – for instance a treatise on medicines, probably by Nicholas of Salerno (III E 13), a medical compendium (I G 23) and the astrological work Liber introductorius ad iudicia stellarum by Guido Bonatti de Forlivio (IV B 10). Liturgical manuscripts are represented, for example, by a 14th-century hymnal of Friars Minor (VI C 20b), a Cistercian missal from the turn of the 14th century (I E 10) and a book of sequences from the turn of the 16th century (VI C 15). Of particular importance for the history of German literature is the manuscript miscellany I C 40, which contains, among other things, Heinrich Seuse’s Büchlein der Ewigen Weisheit, Irmhart Öser’s translation of Rabbi Samuel’s letter to Rabbi Isaac, and the so-called Münchner Apostelbuch.
List of Documents
- „Die Neue Ee“; Heinrich Seuse: Büchlein der Ewigen Weisheit; Irmhart Öser: Epistel des Rabbi Samuel an Rabbi Isaac; „Münchner Apostelbuch“; Marquard / Mark von Lindau: Dekalogerklärung (Buch der zehn Gebote) (Prague, National Library of the Czech Republic, I.C.40)
- Iohannes Reuchlin: Vocabularius breviloquus (fragmentum) (I.D.46)
- Conradus Halberstadtensis senior: Concordantiae Bibliae; Martinus Oppaviensis: Margarita Decreti seu Tabula Martiniana; Matthaeus ab Aquasparta: Concordantiae super Sententias (I.D.48)
- Missale Cisterciense (I.E.10)
- Sermones quadragesimales (fragmentum) (I.F.47)
- Fragmentum sermonum, praecipue Peregrini de Opole (I.F.48)
- Textus medici (I.G.23)
- Sigismundus Albicus de Uniczow: Tractatulus de regimine hominis (Vetularius) cum additamentis Germanicis; Matthias de Mechow: Tractatus praeservativus pestis (I.G.31)
- Sermones (I.H.17)
- Gregorius papa I. (Magnus): Moralia in Iob, pars; Iohannes de Quineriis?: Index alphabeticus Moralium Gregorii papae I. (III.A.9)
- Petrus Lombardus: Sententiarum libri quattuor cum tabula (III.C.21)
- Nicolaus de Lyra: Postilla litteralis in Novum testamentum, pars (III.D.12)
- (Pseudo-?) Nicolaus Salernitanus: Antidotarius (III.E.13)
- Missale (III.H.6)
- Thomas de Aquino: Summa theologiae, pars tertia cum registro (IV.A.10)
- Iohannes Rokyczana: Expositio epistolae ad Romanos et primae ad Corinthios (IV.A.24)
- Aegidius Romanus (de Columna): Liber de regimine principum (IV.B.8)
- Guido Bonatus (Bonatti) de Forlivio: Liber introductorius ad iudicia stellarum (IV.B.10)
- Gregorius papa I. (Magnus): Homiliae quadraginta in evangelia; Tractatus de fide; Innocentius papa III.: De miseria humanae conditionis (IV.C.3)
- Philippus de Bergamo: Commentum dictum Speculum regiminis in Disticha Catonis (VI.C.9)
- Iacobus de Voragine: Sermones de tempore; Sermones varii (VI.C.10)
- Homiliae sanctorum patrum (a sancta Trinitate usque ad adventum) et in dedicatione ecclesiae (VI.C.12)
- Liber sequentiarum (VI.C.15)
- Augustinus: In Iohannis evangelium tractatus 124 (VI.C.17)
- Cantatorium Franciscanum (VI.C.20b)
- Textus varii, praecipue sermones (VI.C.28)
- Conradus de Brundelsheim (Soccus): Sermones de tempore, pars aestivalis; Expositio orationis dominicae (VI.C.29)
