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Magister docet utilitatem abrotani. Macerův pelyněk brotan (abrotanum) v bohemikálních komentářích z počátku 15. století
| Title in English | Magister docet utilitatem abrotani. Artemisia abrotanum of Macer in Commentaries written in Bohemia at the Beginning of the 15th Century |
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Graeco-Latina Brunensia |
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| Citation | |
| Web | Digital Library of the Faculty of Arts |
| Field | Mass media, audiovision |
| Keywords | Iohannes Andreae called Šindel; Macer Floridus; Medieval Herbals; Medieval Herbal Remedies; materia medica; Medieval Commentaries; Charles University in the Middle Ages |
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| Description | The article focuses on the fact that, unlike the situation in the rest of Europe, there is an extraordinarily huge amount of manuscripts commenting on the poem De viribus herbarum preserved in the Czech area. The poem dates back to the 11th century and in the Middle Ages it circulated as the work of so-called Macer or Macer Floridus (probably Odo de Meung). Moreover, it was read and commented on a regular basis at the Faculty of Medicine in Prague, e. g. by Iohannes Andreae, dictus Šindel, (+ 1455–1457) being one of the teachers lecturing on it. The aim of the author is to compare four students’ manuscripts deposited in the National Library of Czech Republic (IV G 9, VIII E 2, IX E 14, X E 14) and one manuscript from Znojmo (Státní okresní archiv Znojmo, ms. 306). Thanks to the high level of mutual cohesion of all the researched texts and almost the same reading of common passages, it can be assumed that the teachers dictated commentary on the poem to the students exactly according to the older manuscripts without bringing any new comments of their own. Comparison of the aforementioned manuscripts with Šindel’s undoubted autograph (Biblioteka Jagiellońska, Kraków, ms. 619) also overcomes presumption of older researchers V. Maiwald, G. Gellner and F. M. Bartoš that the Prague manuscript X E 14 from 1424 was written by Šindel himself. |