Chronicle records in the Bible of Utraquist priest Jan Gaudencius Cover Image

Letopisné záznamy v Bibli utrakvistického kněze Jana Gaudencia
Chronicle records in the Bible of Utraquist priest Jan Gaudencius

Author(s): Kamil Boldan
Subject(s): Local History / Microhistory, Middle Ages
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Masarykův ústav
Keywords: illuminated manuscripts; canonistic manuscripts; kinship diagrams; annalistic notes; utraquist libraries; Hussite revolution; history of weather

Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on Utraquist priest Jan Gaudencius († c. 1455), from whose quite extensive library only a parchment Bible copied in 1418 has been preserved. From 1431, when he began to work in Litoměřice, he started using it to note down chronicle records, not only on important events, but also on the weather. Gaudencius and other users of the Bible continued this in the Western Bohemian town of Žlutice.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 46
  • Page Range: 85-106
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Czech, Latin