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K autorství Komentáře na Apokalypsu doktora Heřmana
To the authorship of the Commentary on the Apocalypse by Doctor Heřman

Author(s): Zdeňka Hledíková
Subject(s): Middle Ages, Biblical studies
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Masarykův ústav
Keywords: Commentary on the Apocalypse; Prague University; Heřman Šváb of Mindelheim; Heřman of Prague

Summary/Abstract: Comparison of one of the commentaries on the Apocalypse which originated at the Prague University and is contained in the manuscript Osek Cist. 37 of the Prague National Library, ff. 1–129, coming from Osek, dating from 1402 and used to this day by experts, with a copy of the same work in the manuscript I Q 16 of the University Library in Wroclaw, created 1378, has excluded the hitherto assumed authorship of Heřman Šváb of Mindelheim, as well as the authorship of Heřman of Prague, assumed, not beyond doubt, by Fr. Stegmüller. Temporal relationship and the data of the colophones of both of these preserved manuscripts lead to the conclusion that the author of this Commentary is an other „Doctor Heřman“, Heřman of Winterswick, a member of the Prague university who composed the Commentary sometime in the late seventies of the 13th century.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 40
  • Page Range: 53-60
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Czech