Medieval Manuscripts from the National Library of the Czech Republic

Most of the recently digitised manuscripts from the National Library of the Czech Republic come from the Czech lands in the Middle Ages. In terms of content, the collection is varied, with a larger share of grammar texts and textbooks and their sets (V.H.1, V.H.8, V.H.10, V.H.15, V.H.21, V.H.24, V.H.28, V.H.32) as well as philosophical texts and commentaries used in the instruction at the Faculty of Arts of the university of Prague, both in the period before the Hussite wars and during the major resumption of its activities around the middle of the 15th century (V.H.5, V.H.9, V.H.14, V.H.18, V.H.22, V.H.30). Other manuscripts contain, for example, works of ecclesiastical law (the collection of decretals Liber Extra in V.H.34; Summa de casibus conscientiae, called Summa Pisana, in VI.A.13b), Biblical exegeses (a part of the Postilla litteralis of Nicholas of Lyra in VI.A.1; an interpretation of the Gospel of Luke in VI.A.16; a commentary by John of Wales on the Book of Revelation in VI.B.18) and collections of patristic homilies (VI.A.3, VI.B.8) and of high medieval sermons (including i.a. texts by Matthew of Cracow in VI.A.8, by Bertold of Regensburg in VI.A.20, by Jacobus de Voragine in VI.B.1, Conrad of Brundelsheim in VI.C.8 and others).