This article is the first to publish a versified pamphlet with the incipit De sancto Stephano Symon celebro male sano (Walther, Initia, no. 4155). The author sees in its 166 verses two pamphlets: the first targets a Constance priest from St Stephen's, Simon Lind, and was evidently composed in Constance some June after 1300, while the second targeting an unknown Simon, was composed some 18th October. The author believes that this double-pamphlet was included in Summa recreatorum by its unknown author, who was perhaps working to the order of Albrecht of Šternberk, as part of the struggle between himself and Petr Jelito for the favour of Charles IV and the associated ecclesiastical posts. The Summa was not drawn up for the death of Charles, soon after which followed that of Albrecht of Šternberk. Hence its ongoing composition must be put down to the 1370s.
This article is the first to publish a versified pamphlet with the incipit De sancto Stephano Symon celebro male sano (Walther, Initia, no. 4155). The author sees in its 166 verses two pamphlets: the first targets a Constance priest from St Stephen's, Simon Lind, and was evidently composed in Constance some June after 1300, while the second targeting an unknown Simon, was composed some 18th October. The author believes that this double-pamphlet was included in Summa recreatorum by its unknown author, who was perhaps working to the order of Albrecht of Šternberk, as part of the struggle between himself and Petr Jelito for the favour of Charles IV and the associated ecclesiastical posts. The Summa was not drawn up for the death of Charles, soon after which followed that of Albrecht of Šternberk. Hence its ongoing composition must be put down to the 1370s.
This paper attempts to reconstruct the now lost aide-memoire notes of Hradec Králové chroniclers, who at the end of the 16th and in the first half of the 17th century used the second dedition of Veleslavín's Historical Calendar (1590) for their notes, recording events of a local nature in particular. In contrast to others which were used by their owners for personal purposes, the Hradec copy of Veleslavín's Calendar came into being in 1590 at the order of the Hradec political representatives and was housed at the Hradec town hall until the 19th century. Today we only learn indirectly of its existence from the testimony of Jan Soukup (1867-1933) and an analysis of the preserved Hradec Králové history by Karel Joseph Biener of Bienenberk (1731-1798) and František de Paula Švenda (1741-1822).
Cyperus japonicus Mak., which has a widespread distribution in subtropical Asia and extends northwards into Europe, was found to be a C4 species based upon its Kranz leaf anatomy, low CO2 compensation concentration and isotopic composition of leaf carbon. A curious variant of the anatomical arrangement of photosynthetic celis is developed in this wetland species. Connected by veins, two groups of Kranz units, one undemeath the abaxial epidermis and the other in the middle of the blade, form elliptical mesophyll channels. This arrangement of Kranz units has been defined as Kranzkette (literally "the chain of garland"). Like Cyperus longus, another C4 species in the genus, the structure and arrangement of chloroplasts in the bundle sheath celis show it to be a NADP-ME type. Starch grains, however, are formed in both mesophyll and bundle sheath celis. This modified C4 Kranz anatomy with large intercellular air spaces within the chlorenchyma suggests that the arrangement of assimilatory celis may be related to gas transport through the large air-spaces.
The Franciscan Library at St. Mary of the Snow in Prague holds a manuscript of a Kadaň Town Chronicle not quoted by special literature till now. The manuscript dates from the end of the 16th century and describes the history of the town from its origin in the year 829 – this part was overtaken from the Chronicle by Václav Hájek of Libočany – untill the days of its author, till the year 1599.