Early Modern Codices from the Strahov Library
In 2026, the Royal Canonry of Premonstratensians at Strahov made 21 more manuscripts from its collections available online. The vast majority of these are volumes within shelfmark section DB IV. The individual manuscripts were predominantly created in the second half of the seventeenth or in the eighteenth century and contain texts for spiritual exercises, collections of prayers and sermons, as well as formularies and other official documents. A third of the collection consists of composite volumes compiled by the Strahov canon and historian Gottfried Johann Dlabacz (shelfmarks DB IV 32, DB IV 35, DB IV 36, DB IV 37, DB IV 38, DB IV 39, DB IV 40). These comprise copies of historical documents, various scholarly treatises on history, librarianship and literary studies, as well as Dlabač’s own literary works. The digitised manuscripts also include texts produced by other Strahov canons as part of their literary activities (such as Hermann Hoffmann and Abbot Hieronymus Hirnhaim – whose tenure is also linked to the library regulations DB IV 49). A manuscript from a different shelfmark section was digitised as well: a register of George Barthold Pontanus of Breitenberg, a poet and Vicar-General of the archbishops of Prague, compiled in the course of his official duties between 1593 and 1612 (DG III 45).
List of Documents
- Manuductiones et exercitia (Prague, Strahov Library, DB IV 19)
- Von Mark-Scheidungen der Königreichen, Land- und Fürstentümer; Von Vermarkungen und Gränzen, dessen Recht und Process, auch Zugehörungen, wie es in diesem Königreich Böheim üblich (DB IV 20)
- Malachias Rosenthal: Tractatus de exemptione Cisterciensium a potestate episcoporum atque exemptorum praesertim abbatum potestate; Tractatus seu commentarius apologeticus, quo reverendissimis dominis abbatibus jurisdictio episcopalis adeoque interrima exemptio ab episcopis adstruitur (DB IV 21)
- Statuta des Prämonstratenser Ordens nach den Beschlussen vom Jahre 1618, 1619, 1622, 1630 (DB IV 22)
- Hieronymus Hirnheim (Hirnhaim): Andächtige auserlesene geistliche Betrachtungen für alle Tage des Jahres (DB IV 23)
- Formelbuch (DB IV 24)
- Zweiter Teil der Militärverordnung, die Verhaltungen bei einem Regiment und Compagnie überhaupt, auch in Feld, Guarnisonen und Quartieren enthaltend (DB IV 25)
- Hermann Hoffmann: Conciones pro dominicis post Pascha et festis Pentecostalibus (DB IV 26)
- Verschiedene Adressen und Titulaturen (DB IV 27)
- Erhebungen des Geistes zu seinem Schöpfer (Gebetbuch) (DB IV 28)
- Geistliches wohlriechendes Hand-Blümlein (Gebetbuch) (DB IV 30)
- Libellus continens modum practicum providendi et visitandi infirmos cum adnexo modo practico iuvandi moribundos (DB IV 31)
- Miscellaneum historicum et litterarium manuscriptum, collectum per Godefridum Joannem Dlabač (DB IV 32)
- Fragmenta seu memoriae manuscriptae varii argumenti, collectae in hunc tomum a Godefrido Joanne Dlabač (DB IV 35)
- Miscellaneum litterariorum manuscriptorum recensens biographias eruditorum et artificum (DB IV 36)
- Godefridus Johannes Dlabač: Otia literaria, tomus I. (DB IV 37)
- Godefridus Johannes Dlabač: Otia literaria, tomus II. (DB IV 38)
- Miscellaneum historicum manuscriptum, in hunc tomum redactum a Godefrido Joanne Dlabač (DB IV 39)
- Opuscula variorum manuscripta, in hunc tomum redacta a Godefrido Joanne Dlabač (DB IV 40)
- Hieronymus Hirnheim: Leges bibliothecae Strahoviensis, bibliothecario et omnibus Strahoviensis ecclesiae professis ad observandum prescriptae (DB IV 49)
- Georgius Bartholdus Pontanus a Breitenberg: Liber instrumentorum et datarum facultatum (DG III 45)
