This article deals with a legacy report of six books to the Augustinian Canon monastery in Třeboň which was writen down in the years 1460-1468 by Martin of Třeboň, a physician. Two of the manuscripts were identified in the holding of the National Library of the Czech Republic today and moreover, further manuscripts belonging to Martin not mentioned in the legacy were found. They are also held in the National Library of the Czech Republic and by the National Library in Vienna. Another codex belonging to the same owner may be held by the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. The contents of the manuscripts indicate that Martin intended to build up his library as and expert reference library with special regard to medicine and natural sciences but it also contained manuscrips of other branches.
This study draws attention to new facts coming out of the scribal colophons of a manuscript miscellany held by the St. James Parsonage Library in Brno and it completes curriculum vitae of Martin of Tišnov who used to be known as a scribe of manuscripts and the author of two Latin panegyrics. He is documented as a parson in Sebranice in the Blansko region at least in the years 1475-1483. He was in connection with the important family of noblemen of Boskovice for a long time. For the time being, however, we are not sure if he can be identified with the printer Martin of Tišnov who edited a Czech Bible in Kutná Hora in 1489 an who also edited the two earliest Prague prints in 1478.
This study deals with the historiography of the mining town Jáchymov. In the 16th century a few historiographic works originated, the most attractive of which being the chronicle by Johan Mathesius, a pastor in Jáchymov, and his folllowers. The works by Johan Seltenreich and David Hüter, local scribes, are less known. The writings are housed in the Jáchymov Municipal Archive and in the National Museum Archive in Prague.