The Royal Collegiate Chapter of Saints Peter and Paul has provided access to an important source on the history of the reconstruction and completion of the Vyšehrad Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul at the turn of the 20th century. The manuscript Ms 001/2024 contains records of income and expenditure related to the reconstruction, but it also provides information on the work carried out and its progress, as well as the associated festivities.
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The Manuscript Stimulus amoris from the Olomouc Research Library
In 2024, the Olomouc Research Library digitised the manuscript M I 11, which dates to the first half of the 15th century. It contains the ascetic-mystical treatise Stimulus amoris , whose text is known from several redactions and was translated into vernacular languages as well.The earliest German translation comes from the 14th century, and the Olomouc manuscript is one of only three known complete copies. Its binding, decorated with blind stamping and metal ornaments, is also medieval; the front lifted paste down is formed by a leaf with a pen-and-ink drawing of the Resurrection of Christ.
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Aug
Prayer Books from the Collections of the Museum of the Jindřichův Hradec Region
In 2024, the Museum of the Jindřichův Hradec Region provided access to a thematically homogeneous collection of seven Czech- and German-language prayer books from the second half of the 18th century and the first half of the 19th century. The German-language codices are handwritten copies of widely printed collections compiled by the Capuchin priest Martin of Cochem. The manuscripts are partly decorated with coloured drawings with floral or architectural motifs; some of them also have small engravings attached.
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Church Slavonic manuscripts and a copy of a baroque poem from the Slavonic Library in Prague
The books digitized during 2024 from the Slavonic Library date from the 17th and 18th centuries. They originated from regions in present-day Dalmatia, Eastern Europe and Northern Russia. The oldest volume digitized in 2024 was a Cyrillic liturgical book for Lent (Tripesnec alternatively Triodion or Triod, 1608) and is of East European origin (shelf mark T 9774). The marginalia in this book reveal that it was originally located in Subcarpathia, specifically in the village of Velykyi Bereznyi (Ukraine). The following is a copy of the religious poem Mandaljena pokornica (The Penitent Magdalene, 1714) by Ivan Bunić-Vučić (1591–1658), a Croatian Baroque politician and poet (shelf mark T 4161). The 18th century is represented by a story about King Apollonius of Tyre (Povest’ ob Apollonii, korole Tirskom). This is from the A. D. Grigorev’s collection of North Russian manuscripts (shelf mark A 10).