Katalog illuminovanych rukopisu: Knihovny Narodniho Muzea v Praze.(Book Review)

by Pavel Brodsky (Prague: K.L.P., 2000; pp. xlvii+489. $55).

Since 1818, the National Museum in Prague has been the home of one of the most important medieval manuscript collections in Central Europe. Many of its treasures have featured in scholarly publications and graced special exhibitions, but the wide chronological, geographical, and artistic range of the material is now presented in its completeness for the first time. Pavel Brodsky's knowledge of the collection, formed over a period of twenty years, sums up the major achievements of Czech scholarship in the late twentieth century. Among the scholars of European standing who made a vital contribution to the catalogue, are two of the doyens of Czech manuscript studies, Josef …