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- Title
ORIGINÁLNÍ VÝTVOR ČESKÉ REFORMACE? PŘÍSPĔVEK KBOHEMIKÁLNÍ BÁSNICKÉ TVORBĔ V JENSKÉM KODEXU.
- Authors
MUTLOVÁ, PETRA; STEHLÍKOVÁ, DANA
- Abstract
Late Medieval Originality in Bohemia? Latin Verses in the Jena CodexThe Jena Codex, a unique treasure of late medieval Bohemian culture, is a richly illuminated manuscript that contains a series of Latin and Czech texts connected to the Bohemian Reform movement of the 15th century. Two full-page illuminations in this codex comprise an antithesis of the terrestrial city and the city of God. The theme of this attractive contrast vibrates through a number of written sources in Europe including Bohemia. Yet not many illuminations of this antithesis survive from the Middle Ages, not to mention illustrations with a textual background. The paper presents the antithesis of the urbs Dei and the urbs terrena in the Jena codex and analyses the verses that accompany this antithesis from the point of view of both form and content. The as yet unspecified model of these Leonine hexameters indicates that the verses might be a unique evidence of original Latin versification composed in medieval Bohemia.
- Subjects
LATIN poetry; MEDIEVAL poetry; HEXAMETER; BOHEMIANISM; ILLUMINATION of books &; manuscripts
- Publication
Graeco-Latina Brunensia, 2012, Vol 17, Issue 1, p81
- ISSN
1803-7402
- Publication type
Article