Bohemian (Cech) Bibliography: A finding list of writings in English relating to Bohemia and the CechsCapek, Thomas
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Bohemian (Cech) Bibliography: A finding list of writings in English relating to Bohemia and the Cechs
Capek, Thomas
Bohemia (Czech Republic) -- Bibliography
Many of the seventeenth century items have been extracted from the
_British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books_. _The Catalogue of the
Harleian Manuscripts_ in the British Museum has yielded _The Historie
of Bohemia_, written presumably in the first quarter of the seventeenth
century. Items of minor value were obtained from the _State Papers of John
Thurloe_; the _Harleian Miscellany, or a collection of scarce, curious and
entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts_; Robert Watts’ _Bibliotheca Britannica,
or a General Index to British and Foreign Literature_. For numerous
current items the authors are indebted to _Poole’s Index to Periodical
Literature_ and the _Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature_.
The reader will probably agree with the present authors that but for
Bohemia’s Protestant past, Anglo-American Bohemica would be practically
non-existent. Strip the source book of Hus, of the events which followed
the Reformation and the anti-Reformation, of the United Brethren and
their alleged offspring, the Moravians, of Komenský, and Bohemia would
stand before the Anglo-American world like Cinderella from the fairy
tale--unwritten about, still waiting to be discovered.
The bibliography proper is subdivided into twenty-two parts, a brief
and relevant comment accompanying each part. The respective sub-titles
are: Art, Bibliography, Biography, Bohemian Glass, Dictionaries, Drama,
Fiction, Folk and Fairy Tales, Guides, History, John Hus, John Amos
Komenský, Language and Literature, Miscellany, Music, Periodicals, Plans
and Maps, Politics, Prague, Sociology and Economics, Sokols, Travel
and Description. A separate chapter, entitled Bohemia in the British
State Papers and Manuscripts, contains bibliographical extracts from
the _Calendar of State Papers_, the _Reports of the British Historical
Manuscripts Commission_, the _Reports of the Royal Commission on
Historical Manuscripts_, _Papal Registers_, etc.
The especial acknowledgments of the authors are due to Prof. Will
S. Monroe, author of _Bohemia and the Čechs_, and to Mr. Leonard C.
Wharton of London. Prof. Monroe kindly read and compared with his own,
the bibliography on Komenský. The material which Mr. Wharton has sent
from England emphasizes anew the enthusiastic interest he takes in the
language, history and literature of the Bohemian people.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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