Codex Gigas English translation Part 3

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Hendrich Curtz

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in uigilia mathei apostoli andreas chotowskij a chotow, frater et syndicus Joannis, Abbatis Brewnowiensis, obiit Anno Domini 1562, in brewnow sepultus.

Joannes a Chotow, praepositus Brewnoviensis, in Abbatem Brevnoviensem electus canonice Anno Christi 1553.

[12th September]
On the eve of the feast of the Apostle Matthew, Andreas Chotowsky of Chotow, brother and syndic to Johannes, Abbot of Braunau, died in the Year of Our Lord 1562, buried in Břevnov.
[After 21st September]
Johannes of Chotow, Dean of Braunau, canonically elected abbot of Braunau, in the Year of Christ 1553.

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Anno 1590 Christophorus Schlichtigius a churte (?) Ripa, Theophrasti Paracelsi certo quodam scripto De Origine et vera Cura pestis intitulato motus, hic venit Jatrochemicae Philosophiae et Medicinae Doctor, Serenissimi Principis Guilhelmi Ducia Bauarie Consiliarius et Medicus. AZOTH virescit.

Johannes Grunauer Glacensis Silesius cum Magnifico domino Christophoro Schlichtigio etc adfiuit eiusque promotione hic usus est. 1590.

[After 26th September]
In the year 1590 Christophorus Schlichtigius of Churte (?) Ripa (Reiffelbach?), prompted by a certain writing by Theophrastus Paracelsus, entitled ‘Of the origin and true cure of the plague (disease)’, came here, Doctor of Iatrochemical Philosophy and Medicine, Councillor and physician to the illustrious Prince William, Duke of Bavaria. Azoth shall burgeon.
[After 28th September]
Johannes Grunauer of Glacen (Klodzko) in Silesia together with the magnificent lord Christophorus Schlichtigius was present and here utilised his promotion in 1590.

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Sub A:o 1582 Cum incredibilis per universum Regnum Bohemie crassaretur pestis, eius de causa Felix a Linda Artium ac Philosophiae Magister, Archidyaconus Ecclesie Pragensis, Decanus Karlsteinensis et Canonicus Ecclesie Olomucensis, huc se contulit et haec pridie exaltationis Sancte Crucis scripsit manu propria.

Pancratius Ränbell (?) Wratislauiensis, 4. die Septembris A:o 1592.

[At the end of September]
During the year 1592, when an incredible plague ravaged the whole kingdom of Bohemia, Felix of Linda, Master of Arts and Philosophy, archdeacon of the Church in Prague, dean of Karlstein and canon of the church of Olmütz (Olomouc), came here for that reason, and wrote this by his own hand, the day preceding the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross (= 13th September).

Pancratius Ränbell of Breslau (Wrocław), 4th September 1592.

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Daniel Heroldt 1592 adj et ???

Daniel Heroldt 1592 came here and ???

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4 (?) 1593

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Anno 1587. Ego Mathias Biskup de Dorndorff et Biskupow lustravi hunc grandem codicem multarum materiarum clarum et perinuentum (? = perimensum?) manu propria.

[2nd December]
In the year 1587. I Matthias Biskup of Dorndorff and Biskupow, inspected this huge book, brilliant and gigantic (?) of many materials. Written by my own hand.

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Georgius Sculteth Archidiaconus et Commissarius Oppoliensis Anno 1588 hec opus lustravit et propria manu scripsit propter adventantes et memoriam.

[11th December]
Georg Sculteth, Archdeacon and Commissioner of Oppeln (Opole), inspected this work in 1588 and put this in writing by his own hand for the sake of those to come and as a memorial.

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Joannes Abstemius Lucidillus Anno 1574.

[22nd December]
Johannes Abstemius Lucidillus. In the year 1574

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Michael Hess, 1588. die Julij 19.

Michael Hess 1588, on 19th July.

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Anno 1593 die 9 Maij. Stanislaus Elsnerus Artium ac Philosophiae Magister, Cum Reverendo patre Elia Ditricho inclyti monasterii Pomarijmontis professo hoc nobile ac insigne opus prima vice perlustravit.

In the year 1593 on 9th May. Stanislaus Elsnerus, Master of Arts and Philosophy, with the renowned venerable Father Elias Ditrichus of the illustrious monastery of Baumgarten, inspected for the first time this noble and lofty work.

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Anno domini 159 quarto die viii mensis Martii Nicolaus Szuski Polonus in Bauariam profectus, nomen proprium ac cognomen jnscripsit manu propria. 

In the Year of Our Lord 1594 on 8th March, Nicolaus Szuski from Poland, on a journey to Bavaria, enrolled in his own hand his surname and forename.

 

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Johan Elers manu propria 31. Aug 1752

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Dne 21 srpna 1850 / dokončil jsem práci / svou v bibliotece řišské / Stkholmské přehlédnutím / této znamenité knihy. / Pečírka / doktor lékárství

On 21st August 1850 I ended my work in the National Library in Stockholm on the study of this renowned book. Pečírka, Čechus. M.Dr. (Czech, Doctor of Medicine).

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D:r Beda Dudik monachus Ordinis Sancti Patri Benedicti monasterii Rayhradensis in Morauia codicem hunc aliquando matri meae, monasterio Breunouiensi pertinentem lustraui tempore aestatis Anno Domini 1851 

Dr Beda Dudik, a monk of the Benedictine Order from the monastery of Raigern (Rajhrad) in Moravia examined this book, formerly belonging to my mother, the monastery of Břevnov, in the summer of the Year of Our Lord 1851.