{"title":"Oxford to Prague: Orthodox Insular Texts in Bohemia","authors":"Ralph Hanna","doi":"10.1093/library/fpad023","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Owing to protracted investigations of heresy, much of John Wyclif’s oeuvre is now available, not in insular, but only in Bohemian manuscripts. However, the mechanisms of such transmission have remained murky, in spite of Anne Hudson’s magisterial investigations in Czech libraries. This essay looks at evidence for an analogous, yet orthodox, transmission, earlier and, before 1407, considerably more prolific than the Wycliffite example. This involves Oxonian texts written for preachers; these had a lively and early Bohemian circulation, dating back to the foundations of the Charles University, Prague.","PeriodicalId":44752,"journal":{"name":"LIBRARY","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"LIBRARY","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/library/fpad023","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract Owing to protracted investigations of heresy, much of John Wyclif’s oeuvre is now available, not in insular, but only in Bohemian manuscripts. However, the mechanisms of such transmission have remained murky, in spite of Anne Hudson’s magisterial investigations in Czech libraries. This essay looks at evidence for an analogous, yet orthodox, transmission, earlier and, before 1407, considerably more prolific than the Wycliffite example. This involves Oxonian texts written for preachers; these had a lively and early Bohemian circulation, dating back to the foundations of the Charles University, Prague.
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The Library is the journal of the Bibliographical Society. For more than a hundred years it has been the pre-eminent UK scholarly journal for the study of bibliography and of the role of the book in history. All aspects of descriptive, analytical, textual and historical bibliography come within its scope, including the history of the production, distribution and reception of books, both manuscript and printed; the history of collecting and of libraries; paper, printing types, book illustration, and binding; and the transmission of texts and their authenticity.