Banderia Prutenorum

The Banderia Prutenorum ( " Banner of Prussia " ) by Jan Dlugosz ( Longinus John ) from 1448 is one of the most important sources for timely Battle of Tannenberg (1410 ), as well as to the where captured German Chapter Banner of the battle of Tannenberg.

Content

The manuscript on parchment 48 leaves, 18.6 x 29.3 cm in size, was illustrated by Stanisław Durink. It represents 56 vexillae or banners of the Teutonic Order as they were captured in the battle of Tannenberg. Overall, the presentation is incomplete because the German Teutonic Knights were not completely wiped out in the battle, and thus not fall all banners in Polish hands.

Importantly, the Banderia Prutenorum is also because it is a Polish scholar, now called itself the German Teutonic Knights, who had conquered in the 180 years before the territory of the Prussians as the " Prussians ". In this manuscript, the German place names including the following commanderies were reproduced:

Culm, Pomesania, Graudenz, Balga, Schoensee, Stargard, Zambia, Tuchel, Stuhm, Nessau, Westphalia, Rogasen, Elbing, Castel Sant'Angelo, Strasburg, Chelm, boards and Neumark, Brown Mountain.

The 1410 captured German religious banners were kept until 1603 in the Wawel Cathedral in Krakow, then they are no longer mentioned and in 1800, shortly after the occupation of Krakow by imperial troops, their track in Vienna loses. The Banderia Prutenorum manuscript was still kept in Krakow. 1940 it would be passed by Hans Frank, governor-general of occupied Poland pan with the banner copies from 1900 to Marienburg. Immediately after 1945, was considered lost. After it was found in a London bookseller and bought by Poland again, the book is in the possession of the Jagiellonian Universitätsbibiothek. The content was not published until 1850.

The destroyed German Chapter Banner in 1962 and 2009, completely renovated.

Edition

• Sven Ekdahl: The " Banderia Prutenorum " by Jan Dlugosz, a source for Battle of Tannenberg 1410 studies on the structure, formation and source value of the manuscript. . ( = Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological- historical class, Third episode, No. 104), Cambridge University Press, Göttingen 1976, ISBN 3-525-82382-7.