Chronicle of Dalimil
The Dalimil Chronicle ( Czech Dalimilova kronika ) is the oldest written in Czech history. Besides their importance as they memorial speech is mainly for the late 13th and early 14th century of historical value, since it describes the events at the end of Přemyslids rule eyewitness perspective.
Although the name of the author is unknown, it is since the 17th century commonly known as " Dalimil Chronicle " or " chronicle of the so-called Dalimil ".
The Chronicle
The rhymed chronicle is divided into 106 chapters. It begins with a short chapter on the Tower of Babel and then describes the history of Bohemia from the first legendary rulers until the year 1314. Several supplements are mainly related to the years 1315 and 1316. Besides the Chronica Boemorum used the author several legends of the saints and also referred to oral tradition.
The chronicle was written during the reign of King John of Luxembourg and reflects the then aristocratic opposition against the " foreign" king and his advisers resist. The author writes patriotic, as a proponent of the Bohemian nobility and opponents of foreign influences in Bohemia. It applies, for example, against tournaments, foreign clothes and other " harmful " foreign fashions. His work has therefore particularly common in times of national revival movement. The Chronicle is one of the most famous works of the early Czech literature.
Tradition
The Dalimil Chronicle survives in a larger number of complete and incomplete manuscripts and has been reprinted many times since 1620. Apart from the Czech original, there are also two different German translations - of this one in prose. 2005 appeared in a Paris auction on a previously unknown, illustrated Latin translation, which is today called " Paris manuscript ". It was probably made around 1330-1340 in Northern Italy in the reign of King John of Luxembourg. The manuscript came into the possession of the Czech state for 339,000 euros.
The handwritten rhyming chronicle of the German revision Di tutsch kronik of Behem lant is located in the archives of the Prague Castle in the library of the Metropolitan Chapter.
Expenditure
- Pavel Jesin of Bezdězí: The Old Czech rhyming chronicle of the so-called Dalimil, reprinted with an introduction by Jiří Daňhelka. Sagner, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-87690-213-4 ( = Sagners Slavic Collection Volume 4 ).
- J. Daňhelka, K. Hádek, B. Havranek, N. Kvítková (ed.): Staročeská kronika tak řečeného Dalimila: vydání textu a veškerého textového materiálu. 2 volumes, Academia, Praha 1988, ISBN 80-7066-591-2; Volume 3: Marie Bláhová: Staročeská kronika tak řečeného Dalimila v contextual středověké historiography latinského kulturního okruhu a její pramenná hodnota. Historický Comment. Rejstřík. Academia, Praha 1995, ISBN 80-200-0282-0 ( critical edition ).
- Václav Hanka: Dalimilova Chronicles Česká v nejdávnější čtení navrácena. 1849 ( digitized version of the German edition in the Google Book Search )
- Jirecek Josef (ed.): Rýmovaná kronika Česka tak rečeného Dalimila. Di tutsch kronik of Behemlant. ( Fontes Rerum Bohemicarum 3), Prague 1878.
- Marie Bláhová (ed.): Kronika tak řečeného Dalimila. Svoboda, Praha 1977 ( paraphrase in modern Czech).