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Meteorologie v Knize dvacatera umění mistra Pavla Žídka
Meteorology in the Liber viginti arcium by Master Paulerinus

Author(s): Alena Hadravová
Subject(s): 15th Century
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Masarykův ústav
Keywords: M. Pavel Žídek; Liber viginti arcium; History of meteorology; Medieval encyclopaedias

Summary/Abstract: A large Latin encyclopaedia entitled Liber viginti arcium (The Book on Twenty Arts) was written by Master Paulerinus (Pavel Žídek, Paulus de Praga) in the sixteeth of the 15th century and it is saved as a unique ms. in Cracow, Jagellonian Library, 257. The present contribution contains a first edition of meteorological part of this work (fol. 170rb–172rb), supplemented by Czech translation and commentary. For comparison with this text some parallels are excerpted especially from Glossarium by Master Claretus de Solencia (c. 1360) and from Nomenclator by Daniel Adam of Veleslavín (published in 1598).

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 44
  • Page Range: 439-477
  • Page Count: 39
  • Language: Czech, Latin