Abstract
The lecture by Lucie Doležalová, Karel Pacovský, Světlana Müllerová, Ondřej Fúsik and Milada Homolková complemented the exhibition of the mediaeval codex Lipnice bible in the 600th anniversary of its creation. The Bible itself was exhibited along with other originals in the Mirror Chapel from 1 to 15 September.
The codex is currently owned by the American Museum of the Bible, located in Washington, D.C. The manuscript itself is one of the more expensive contemporary codices and was completed in May 1421, most likely at Lipnitz Castle.
The commissioner or owner of the codex was probably a certain Matěj of Roudnice, who unfortunately could not be further identified. However, given the manuscript's design, we can assume that he was a wealthy cleric, for whom the Bible could have served as an instrument of religious polemics in the heated period of the Hussite Revolution.
With its Latin text of the Scriptures, the Lipnice Bible belongs to the widespread type of the so-called Paris Bible, which originated in the Parisian university environment in the 13th century by adapting the Vulgate and expanding it with some apocryphal texts. The scientific analysis of the codex, which was carried out by a team of experts led by Lucie Doležalová and Karel Pacovský from the Faculty of Arts of Charles University, has now been published in the monograph The Lipnic Bible: A Shield of Faith in the Turbulent Times of the Late Middle Ages (Okrouhlice 2021).