Horčický's books

[ReneZ]

The source of information for the MS with #40 is an old (now defunct) web page of Rafal Prinke. His source for this was:

J. Truhlář, Katalog českých rukopisů c. k. Veřejné a Universitní Knihovny pražské, Praha 1906

where the MS is entry nummber 243.

Quoting from Rafal's old page:

This manuscript is of utmost interest because of its provenience. It was written in 1493 by one Master Albert and was probably owned in the mid-16th century by Jan Bukovský z Hustiřan because there are notes in a different hand about the births of his two sons in 1540 and 1538. The back cover has notes on taxes from Prague houses in 1579, while the front cover bears the later owner's inscription: "E bibliotheca Georgii Bartholdi Pontani a Braitenberg praepositi Pragensis". Most interestingly, however, folio 1r is signed "Jakuba z Tepence"! It is exactly in the same place as in the VMS and has the same form so there can now be no doubt that he was indeed the owner of both (I must admit that until now I was not quite sure what to think about his erased signature in VMS). As far as I know this is the first identified MS from Sinapius's library mentioned in VMS literature.

Thanks for the update on Pontanus'  death date!