Late Middle Ages German historiographical texts from Bohemia - A philological analysis, electronic edition
Research project - Grant Agency of the Czech Republic - GA405/09/0637 (2009 - 2011)

Texts

Vita Caroli
parallel; Latin, Czech, German

Chronica Boemorum - Přibík Pulkava z Radenína
parallel; Latin, Czech, German (Ms. Munich), German (Ms. Wrocław) (selective edition)

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Sources and Editions
Edition: Fontes Rerum Bohemicarum (external source; digitised CMS, Czech Medieval Sources online):
Vita Caroli
Emler, Josef (ed.): Život císaře Karla IV. (Leben des Kaisers Karl IV.). In: Fontes rerum Bohemicarum III. Praha 1882, p. 323–417.

Chronica Boemorum - Pulkava - lat., cze.
Emler, Josef – Gebauer, Jan (ed.): Kronika Pulkavova (Die Pulkava-Chronik). In: Fontes rerum Bohemicarum V. Praha 1893, p. III–XX, 1–326.

Blaschka, Anton: Die St. Wenzelslegende Kaiser Karls IV. Einleitung, Texte, Kommentar. Prag 1934. (contains parts of the both German translations of the Pulkava-Chronicle.)

Ms. BSB München, Cgm. 1112 (Pulkava - ger. etc.; faksimile BSB)
facsimile (urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb00032658-9)

Base texts wer adopted with minimal changes from the editions (occasionally discarding the proposed emendations - in the German texts; from the Latin Pulkava Chronicle, only the version corresponding with both vernacular translations). Chapter numbering according to Bláhová, Marie (ed.): Kroniky doby Karla IV. Praha 1987. The transcription of the manuscript respect most of the graphemic features of the source; the grapheme for s and z are simplified, the interpunction is partly added as well as the capitalisation the propper names. Expanded abbreviations are marked graphically in the text; headings and Initial letters are bold.
The beginning of the text is colated with a preliminary fragmentary transcription: N.N. [L. Zatočil?]: Hie hebt an die Cronicka ... (typewriter; undated).
Manuscript description: Schneider, Karin: Die deutschen Handschriften der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München. Die mittelalterlichen Handschriften aus Cgm 888–4000 (Catalogus codicum manu scriptorum Bibliothecae Monacensis V.6). Wiesbaden 1991, p. 83–85, online: http://www.manuscripta-mediaevalia.de/hs/kataloge/HSK0189.htm.
Handschriftencensus.de - BSB München, Cgm. 1112.

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Projekt publications

Selected bibliography

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