The Krnov Town Museum collections include two medieval manuscripts – a Latin Bible and a German gospel postilla by Nikolaus von Dinkelbühl. Neither manuscript has previously been known to specialist circles. The Bible contains the text of the Latin Vulgate with prologues on most books of the Bible, and it was completed in 1433 by an unknown scribe. From the ownership notes and monograms it was possible to ascertain that its owner was in the second half of the fifteenth century the administrator of the Utraquist Consistory and Chancellor of Prague University Václav Koranda the Younger. The number of manuscripts known today preserved from Koranda's library has come to forty. The Bible was acquired by the museum collections from the Minorite Monastery Library in Krnov in the early 1950s. The second medieval manuscript is the German gospel postilla by Nikolaus von Dinkelsbühl, which is the only known example of this work housed in Czech libraries.
The Krnov Town Museum collections include two medieval manuscripts – a Latin Bible and a German gospel postilla by Nikolaus von Dinkelbühl. Neither manuscript has previously been known to specialist circles. The Bible contains the text of the Latin Vulgate with prologues on most books of the Bible, and it was completed in 1433 by an unknown scribe. From the ownership notes and monograms it was possible to ascertain that its owner was in the second half of the fifteenth century the administrator of the Utraquist Consistory and Chancellor of Prague University Václav Koranda the Younger. The number of manuscripts known today preserved from Koranda's library has come to forty. The Bible was acquired by the museum collections from the Minorite Monastery Library in Krnov in the early 1950s. The second medieval manuscript is the German gospel postilla by Nikolaus von Dinkelsbühl, which is the only known example of this work housed in Czech libraries.
The library of the Counts von Manderscheid-Blankenheim at Blankenheim Castle vas established in the 1470s and closed after Napoleon's army invaded the Rhineland in 1794. The last owner of the castle, Augusta von Sternberg-Manderscheid, probably took some of the books to the Sternberg Palace in Prague. After the sale of the Sternberg library in 1830, it was incorporated into the Lobkowicz princes Prague palace library, with which it was incorporated into the National Library of the Czech Republic fonds in 1928. The present study presents the results of research into the manuscript fonds of the Prague Lobkowicz library, which was based on the discovered Lobkowicz list of purchased Sternberg manuscripts. It presents a total of seven manuscripts of Blankenheim origin from the first half of the 13th century to the first half of the 16th century.
Mittelalterliche Handschriften aus der Bibliothek der Grafen von Manderscheid-Blankenheim, die in den Beständen der Nationalbibliothek der Tschechischen Republik erhalten sind.
Povrchová prospekce a následný archeologický výzkum prokázaly západně od obce Suchomasty na Berounsku existenci rozsáhlého středověkého sídliště fungujícího přibližně od přelomu 9. a 10. století až do závěru 15. století. Povrchovými sběry byly na části jeho plochy získány četné hrudky, slitky a několik fragmentů předmětů z neželezných kovů, z nichž nejzajímavější je část malého zvonu. Tyto nálezy spolehlivě dokládají intenzivní metalurgické aktivity. Na základě výsledků analýz chemického složení vybraných artefaktů a slitků a zhodnocení sídelně-historických souvislostí je hypoteticky klademe někam do 12. či 13. století. Studie se pokouší zařadit sídliště u Suchomast do širších regionálních sídelně-historických souřadnic a ukazuje, že nabízí jeden z příkladů složité proměny struktury venkovského sídliště v průběhu středověku. and Surface surveys and a subsequent excavation west of the village of Suchomasty (Beroun district, Central Bohemia) documented a large medieval settlement occupied roughly from the late 9th – early 10th up until the late 15th century. A part of the surveyed area yielded numerous lumps and casting-spills of non-ferrous metals as well as several fragments of metallic artefacts, the most curious of which is a part of a small bell. These finds attest to the intense working of non-ferrous metals. Based on the results of an elemental composition analysis of selected finds as well as on the broader historical and settlement context, we date these activities hypothetically to the 12th or 13th century. The objective of the present study is to set the Suchomasty settlement into a broader context of regional settlement history; it will turn out to be a highly interesting case of the complex transformation of the rural settlement structure and functions during the Middle Ages.