Doberaner Handschriften in der Bibliothek des Priesterseminars in Pelplin

Transylvanian Review, Vol. XX, Supplement No. 2:1, 2011

"The present study, which begins with the enumeration of certain general data regarding the importance of obituaries as historical and philological information sources, approaches a period when Moldavia was flourishing culturally—the mid-18th century. The study focuses upon one of the manuscripts drawn up in the writing room of a modest monastery in Roman County: the great Obituary of Doljeşti monastery. Discovering this unknown writing, a true chronicle of that time and an important instrument for any researcher studying the final period of the Moldavian Middle Ages, has offered us the occasion to bring to light pieces of the life and activity of commissioner Dionisie Hudici, information about his relatives and the history of his foundations, as well as regarding the biography of a scholar, Nathanail Putneanul, these being biographical and monographic mini-medallions neglected by our historiography."

Musicologica Brunensia 47, 2012

Pronounced at the XIXe Colloque international de paléographie latine in Berlin on 16 – 19 September 2015. Abstract: After the extinction of the Czech native Premyslids´ Dynasty, many scribes, active until this time in courtly services, have found new position in cloisters and monasteries all over the Czech lands and in its scriptoriums. The old monastic scriptoriums used the pre-Gothic Minuscule with many archaic elements. In fact, very often the incoming scribes were the holders of the tradition of the new book script, characteristic of the entrance of early Gothic Minuscule. The forwarded Gothic Minuscule has succeeded in the Czech Kingdom in about the half of the 14. C. It evolved in many new varied conditions in the second half of the 14. C. The multi-level development of the graphic changes should be presented in the paleographical study of the manuscript collection from the Benedictine Cloister of St. George at the Prague Castle. First of all, it should be presented on the case of manuscripts from the epoque of the abbess Cunegunde (1265-1321, the daughter of the Czech King Přemysl Otakar II.), written in cloister´s scriptorium. In a short period of about one century, there was variety of scribes’ combination active. The study offers fast and excellent view into this exciting time of paleographical changes at one place.

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The Manuscript L1643, housed in the collection of the Diocesan Library in Sandomierz, comprises eight preserved partbooks and constitutes a vital, so far underestimated source of polychoral practice in Poland in the first half of the 17th century. That exceptional manuscript, found within the Sandomierz musical collection, tentatively examined shortly after the Second World War by Wendelin Świerczek,1 has not yet attracted close attention of musicologists. The only exception is a highly valuable and truly engrossing master’s thesis on eight Magnificats included in the collection, written by Irena Rybicka2 at the Catholic University of Lublin. The manuscript is made up of eight partbooks in quarto format (16.5 × 20 cm). The page edges of four of them are red, the remaining four − green-blue. They are all light-cardboard bound, covered with brown leather, with a bordure on the front cover and thoroughly blind stamped back cover.3 The central part of the

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Revised edition of the book from 2011. Authors: A. Rzepka, R. Sosnowski, P. Tylus