This article brings a codicological analysis of a manuscript belonging to the Carthusian monastery at Tržek near Litomyšl that was found by researching manuscripts relating to Bohemia and held by the Biblioteca Palatina Vaticana. Moreover, the author deals with other preserved manuscripts coming from this monastery and relating to other monasteries of the same order in Bohemia and Moravia in the Middle Ages. Attention is also paid to the destiny of Albert of Sternberg, the founder of the Carthusia.
The Tovačov lawbook is one of the most important sources of the Moravian provincial law in the 15th and 16th century. It has never been printed but it was spread only by numerous manuscripts. This lawbook was published in two editions in 1858 and 1868. Legal historian F. Čáda made an analysis of manuscripts in the end of 1960s. A newly discovered manuscript (Moravian Land Archive Brno) belongs to the oldest manuscripts layer. It is a part of convolute together with prints of Moravian Provincial Code of 1516 and Bohemian Vladislaus Provincial Code of 1500. New manuscript belongs to the Olomouc group of manuscripts of Tovačov lawbook and it is analysed in the context of other known manuscripts.