NA OKRAJ RUKOPISU PULKAVOVY KRONIKY V NÁRODNÍM ARCHIVU V PRAZE
TO THE PULKAVA’S CHRONICLE MANUSCRIPT IN THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES IN PRAGUE

Summary/Abstract: A known copy of the Chronicle by Přibík Pulkava of Radenín is deposited in the National Archives in Prague. Karel of Münsterberk had it made in the year 1607. But Karel Stejskal informed that the manuscript had got its pendant in the copy held by the Saxonian Land and University Library in Dresden. He came to the conclusion that the record about the provenance written in the Prague manuscript had to be a later addition. He deduced that both manuscripts were illuminated by the same illuminator so then dating of the Dresden manuscript is valid for both and thus puts its origins to the year 1527. But from the detailed study it is obvious that these manuscripts were not done by the “same hand”. The inscriptions on the binding of the Dresden manuscript have been considered important so far for dating the whole manuscript and, so according to Stejskal, also for the Prague one. These opinions have not taken into consideration that the bookbinding need not be original, as it is proved e. g. from cut-off bordures. It might be that the origins of the Dresden manuscript should be placed to the end of 15th century. In any case Stejskal´s opinion will have to be abandoned. These are not two almost identical manuscripts from “one hand”, in the Prague case it is a successful and close copy of an older manuscript. After the detailed examination, we can consider the additional text from 1607 to be the actual dating.

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