PV2A306 Interpretative Seminar I – Scriptoria and Offices

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2022
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Dalibor Havel, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Dalibor Havel, Ph.D.
Department of Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archive Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Olga Barová
Supplier department: Department of Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archive Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 14:00–15:40 B2.32
Prerequisites (in Czech)
! PV2A211 Scriptoria and Offices && ! PV2B102 Scriptoria and Offices
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
This series of seminars is aimed at ensuring graduates acquire the basic skills to identify written sources that are linked by a shared provenance. By means of specific examples, the differences between scribal schools whose scribes are linked by a graphical affinity and scribal workshops will be highlighted. Individual attention will be paid to the graphics of centres of diplomatic production, i.e. offices, in terms of their diachronic development. The course presupposes a command of the basic interpretive methods of paleography and codicology.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, the student will be able to:
- interpret the oldest Bohemian written sources, particularly in terms of their provenance;
- uncover the probable or certain places of origin of a particular source, preserved in the form of both manuscript and charter;
- have a command of the fundamentals of the techniques in the publishing of the oldest manuscript fragments.
Syllabus
  • Definitions of terms: scriptorium and office in terms of their diachronic development.
  • Examples of basic methods used in the identification of known scriptoria: Břevnov and Hradisko.
  • The notary school in Vyšehrad.
  • The uniformity and similarity of the scribal hand.
  • Practical seminar: the identification of an as yet unrevealed scriptorium (a specific example).
Literature
  • FLODR, Miroslav. Skriptorium olomoucké. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1960. Spisy FF UJEP. info
  • PRAŽÁK, Jiří: Ke studiu skriptorií a knihoven doby přemyslovské, in: J. Pražák, Výbor kodikologických a paleografických rozprav a studií. Praha 2006, s. 249–264.
  • HAVEL, Dalibor. Počátky latinské písemné kultury v českých zemích : nejstarší latinské rukopisy a zlomky v Čechách a na Moravě. Vydání první. Brno: Filozofická fakulta, Masarykova univerzita, 2018, 534 stran. ISBN 9788021089181. URL info
  • HAVEL, Dalibor. Listinné písmo v českých zemích na přelomu 13. a 14. století. Vyd. 1. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2008, 293 s. ISBN 9788021047501. URL info
  • STAMMBERGER, Ralf M. W. Scriptor und Scriptorium : das Buch im Spiegel mittelalterlicher Handschriften. Graz: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 2003, 134 s. ISBN 3201017973. info
Teaching methods
Seminar with the active participation of students.
Assessment methods
Credit for the course will be determined by continuous assessment of the degree and quality of student involvement in seminar work and a concluding joint discussion.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2022, recent)
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