Orthographia Bohemica
Kateřina Voleková (ed.)
Akropolis, Praha 2019
Kateřina Voleková prepared for the publishing house Akropolis her edition of the Latin book on Czech Orthography Orthographia Bohemica. The book describes using diacritics in the Czech Language of the 15th century and it contains translations to Czech (by Ondřej Koupil) and English (Marcela Koupilová, David Livingstone). It also contains reproductions of medieval manuscript, transliterated Latin text, richly commented normalised edition of the Latin text and indexes. The book is the base for studying this important milestone of elaborating the problems of orthography and language in the Czech culture of the 15th century. Introductory study (Kateřina Voleková, Michal Dragoun) is included in full length in Czech and English.
The book was published with the support of the Czech Science Foundation grant, ID: č. 16-00598S.