The Jistebnice hymn book () is a

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hand-written hymnbook from around 1430Anthology of Czech music
/ref> and the earliest witness to a concentrated effort to translate the liturgy of the

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into the

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The Jistebnice hymn book is the largest surviving compendium and the most important source of

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liturgy Liturgy is the customary public ritual of worship performed by a religious group. As a religious phenomenon, liturgy represents a communal response to and participation in the sacred through activities reflecting praise, thanksgiving, remembra ...

and singing in the Czech lands. It contains Czech translations of

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liturgy, religious

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s, songs to be sung at

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and also Czech folk

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s. It also contains the first record of the Hussite war song ''

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''.

Storage

The manuscript is deposited in the Prague National Museum. A copy of the manuscript is in a gallery in Jistebnice, where the manuscript was found.

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Digitized manuscriptIndex of the manuscript's liturgical repertoryFull index as included in the print edition
Music of the Czech Republic 1430s books Hussite history Protestant hymnals Czech manuscripts 15th-century manuscripts Collection of the National Museum in Prague {{Proto-Protestantism

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