Prague Bible

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The Prague Bible (or more rarely: Bohemian Bible ; Czech: Bible pražská ) is the oldest printed Czech Bible and at the same time the oldest printed Bible in a Slavic language , which was printed in 1488 in the Jan Kamp printing house in Prague . The printers Jan Severyn Kramer, Jan Pytlik and Matej and Bileho Lva were the patrons of this demanding undertaking.

Almost 90 complete or almost complete copies of this Bible translation have survived.

literature

  • Královská Česká Společnost Nauk: Recent Treatises of the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences , Volume 2, Geržabek and Calve Verlag, 1795
  • Jan Pirozynski: Krakow and Prague as centers of book printing in the 15th and 16th centuries. Attempt a comparison ; in: Marina Dmitrieva, Karen Lambrecht: Krakow, Prague and Vienna: Functions of Metropolises in the Early Modern State, Volume 10 of Research on the History and Culture of Eastern Central Europe , ISSN 1435-9030, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2000, ISBN 978-3-51507 -792-7 , p. 223 ff.
  • Bernhard Fabian, Vincenc Streit, Vlasta Faltysová, Pavel Pohlei: Handbook of German historical book stocks. Czech Republic (Prague) , Georg Olms Verlag, ISBN 978-3-48741-763-9 , p. 27 ff.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Naumann: Serapeum: Journal for Library Science, Handwriting and Older Literature , Volume 4, TO Weigel Verlag, 1843, p. 8
  2. ↑ Jan Pirozynski: Krakow and Prague as centers of book printing in the 15th and 16th centuries. Attempt a comparison ; in: Marina Dmitrieva, Karen Lambrecht: Krakow, Prague and Vienna: Functions of Metropolises in the Early Modern State, Volume 10 of Research on the History and Culture of Eastern Central Europe , ISSN 1435-9030, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2000, ISBN 978-3-51507 -792-7 , p. 223 ff.
  3. ^ Bernhard Fabian, Vincenc Streit, Vlasta Faltysová, Pavel Pohlei: Handbook of German historical book stocks. Czech Republic (Prague) , Georg Olms Verlag, ISBN 978-3-48741-763-9 , p. 27 ff.
  4. ↑ Rozhlas (Czech)