Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2020
Abstract
Despite a lack of sources, the author endeavours to investigate the beginnings of the oldest library in the Czech lands, the library at the Prague cathedral chapter, between the 9th and 12th centuries. Besides occasional preserved manuscripts and - somewhat more commonly - fragments of manuscript, which can be linked to the chapter library, as well as period reports on the acquisition of certain books, she looks at sources used and literary influences in the Chronicon Boemorum written by Dean of Prague chapter, Cosmas (+ 21 October 1125).