This study focuses on the early modern history of the monastic library of the Order of St Augustine at St Thomas in Prague. On the basis of archival sources (monastic chronicles, the catalogue of the members of the Order) and research into provenances in extant collections, this paper primarily aims to map the development of the Augustinian library in the 16th and 17th centuries. Provenance research has discovered that the monastic library was mainly used for monastic studies and for preaching and pastoral activities of the Augustinians. The research into book provenances has revealed numerous personal ties between the Lesser Town Augustinians and people at the court of Rudolph II. The results of the archival and provenance research have not confirmed the hypothesis of the complete looting of the library at the end of the Thirty Years’ War, but neither have they clearly proved the true extent of the losses suffered by the library. The research has shown the primary role of the library within the Order of St Augustine in the Czech lands and has indicated the position of the library in a broader social and cultural context., Veronika Sladká., and Obsahuje bibliografické odkazy
The Capuchin monastery in Mnichovo Hradiště was founded by Count Arnošt Josef of Valdštejn in 1690. It was generously supported by Countess Marie Markéta of Valdštejn, née Černínová of Chudenice. She also donated money to the monastic library, specifically 5,000 gold coins in 1724 for the purchase of books and 1,000 gold coins, from which 50 gold coins were to be paid every year for the purchase of new books. This made it possible to complement the book collection regularly. In 1754, the library began to be catalogued. The catalogue included approximately 1,800 volumes. Nevertheless, considering the fact that the catalogue is not complete, their total number must have exceeded 2,000 volumes. In 1785, based on a court decree, the monastery was abolished. Thanks to Vincenc of Valdštejn, however, it was given permission to exist until all the members of the convent died. The library remained in its place for the time being although some books as well as the catalogue from 1754 were moved to the castle library in Doksy. Yet most of the Capuchin library ended like other libraries of abolished monasteries - it was handed over to the Imperial-Royal University Library, which is evidenced by various documents and the catalogue of the library from March 1813, deposited in the Archives of the National Library in Prague now. Unlike the catalogue from 1754, ordered by subject, the catalogue from 1813 is arranged alphabetically according to the author’s surname or the title of the book. It contains records of approximately 2,700 book volumes, which corresponds to an increase by ca 500 volumes from 1754. The newly purchased volumes were dominated by foreign-language Bohemica, which had been printed in Prague as well as in other Czech printing workshops (Olomouc, Hradec Králové, Litoměřice). Research into the collections of the National Library has so far revealed 80 volumes of early printed books and 4 manuscripts that used to belong to the monastery in Mnichovo Hradiště. Based on the volumes discovered, the library seems to have preferred Bohemica, both in Czech and in foreign languages. The extant catalogues from 1754 and 1813 have made it possible to obtain a better idea of the library of the Mnichovo Hradiště monastery and have effectively helped in the search for extant volumes., Marta Hradilová., Obsahuje anglické resumé, and Obsahuje bibliografické odkazy
The article draws on the list of separate manuscripts and manuscripts forming part of binders’ volumes coming from the library of the Domažlice Augustinians, a component of the first volume of the Soupis rukopisů Studijní a vědecké knihovny Plzeňského kraje v Plzni [A Compendium of the Manuscripts from the Education and Research Library of the Pilsener Region in Pilsen (Plzeň 2006)]. Since the first and at the same time last description of the library comes from as early as 1950, when the book collection was taken over by the State Education Library in Pilsen, we attempted to study the development of the Augustinian book collection on the basis of indirect sources, such as mainly books of accounts and ownership notes in extant printed books and manuscripts. From the original ca 4,000 volumes, only 272 volumes have been preserved in the Education and Research Library of the Pilsener Region (ERLPR) to this day; two separate manuscripts and 16 manuscripts forming part of binders’ volumes from the 17th-19th centuries have been described in the above-mentioned compendium; two manuscripts that were bound to other manuscripts come from a nearby convent in Pivoň. A noteworthy piece among the literary texts preserved in Prague archives is a manuscript fragment of a Czech play containing a dialogue between two merchants taking place at the Pilsen market, which comes from the second half of the 18th century, or the attempt of the Pivoň Augustinian Bruno Knez to write and even publish the history of his convent from 1753, which may be considered as the first printed monastic monograph from West Bohemia. and Jaromír Linda.
Studie se zabývá chorálním repertoárem hodinkového oficia ke svaté Ludmile v hudebních pramenech svatojiřského kláštera na Pražkém hradě. Součástí je notová edice i srovnání obsahu jednotlivých pramenů., František Kolář., Rubrika: Studie, and Anglické resumé na s. 89, anglický abstrakt na s. 53