TABLE OF CONTENTS Editors’ Preface ............................................................................................................. 5 I. ARTICLES AND STUDIES .........................................................................7 Rozana Vojvoda Većenega’s ‘Book of Hours’: a Manuscript Study with Special Stress on Decorated Initials............................... 9 Ana Marinković Constrvi et erigi ivssit rex Collomannvs: The Royal Chapel of King Coloman in the Complex of St. Mary in Zadar........ 37 Jan Machula Foreign Items and Outside Influences in the Material Culture of Tenth-Century Bohemia................................................................................. 65 Ildikó Csepregi The Miracles of Saints Cosmas and Damian: Characteristics of Dream Healing ...................................................................... 89 Csaba Németh Videre sine speculo: The Immediate Vision of God in the Works of Richard of St. Victor..............123 Réka Forrai Text and Commentary: the Role of Translations in the Latin Tradition of Aristotle’s De anima (1120–1270).......................139 Dávid Falvay “A Lady Wandering in a Faraway Land” The Central European Queen/princess Motif in Italian Heretical Cults..........157 Lucie Doležalová “Reconstructing” the Bible: Strategies of Intertextuality in the Cena Cypriani...........................................181 Reading the Scripture ..............................................................................203 Foreword – Ottó Gecser ...............................................................................205 Hanna Kassis A Bible for the Masses in the Middle Ages: Translating the Bible in Medieval Muslim Spain.............................................207 Elissaveta Moussakova Illuminating the Byzantine and Slavonic Psalters from the Eleventh through the Fourteenth Century............................................223 Martha Keil “May the Torah be our Occupation…” Teaching and Studying in the Medieval Jewish Community ..............................249 II. REPORT OF THE YEAR........................................................................271 Report of the Year – József Laszlovszky ....................................................273 Activities and Events in 2000/2001.........................................................281 Academic Field Trips .................................................................................283 Courses of the Academic Year 2000/2001.............................................287 Public Lectures ............................................................................................291 M.A. Thesis Abstracts ................................................................................293 Ph.D. Defence during the Academic Year 2000/2001.........................325 Resident Faculty: Publications, Papers, Academic Services.................333 EDITOR’S PREFACE Lectori salutem! The new issue of our yearbook reaches you in its traditional form and internal organization, but with fresh and hopefully thought-provoking contents. This time, structural changes do not affect the volume itself, but are present in the broadening scope of our departmental publication policy. In the eighth year of its existence, the Annual of Medieval Studies at CEU has lost its monopoly as the only serial publication of our Department in book form. In the autumn of 2001, a new series entitled CEU Medievalia was launched as a complex and varied publication series comprising handbooks, volumes of conference papers, and source collections. The volumes of the new series published so far include the papers presented at our 1999 conference on The Crusades and the Military Orders. Expanding the Frontiers of Medieval Latin Christianity (with an extensive bibliography, edited by Zsolt Hunyadi and József Laszlovszky); a Guide to Visual Resources of Medieval East-Central Europe (edited by Béla Zsolt Szakács) and the papers of the 2001 workshop on Oral History of the Middle Ages (a joint publication with the series Medium Aevum Quotidianum, edited by Gerhard Jaritz and Michael Richter). Together with this new series, the range of the departmental publications now includes four different genres. The Medieval News, our newsletter published twice a year, acts as a source of information for our international network. Our website presents beside up-to-date information, various kinds of educational material compiled by our faculty and students. The “senior” publication, the Annual, contains articles emerging from student work, research projects, or public lectures, and gives an overview of our educational activities. All these forms represent the threefold aims of our educational program: the combination of high-level graduate education, policy-oriented research projects, and the plan to present the medieval heritage of Central and Eastern Europe for an international scholarly audience. We would like to thank our readers and partner institutions, on behalf of all the users of our library, for the valuable exchange copies provided in return for the previous volumes of our Annual. We hope that you will contribute to this useful circulation of academic achievements in the future as well. The editors would also like to thank all the contributors of the present volume for their cooperation, especially for Annabella Pál who gave invaluable help in editing Part II. Our colleagues Judith Rasson, Alice Choyke, and Matthew Suff helped us improve the clarity of the text; our doctoral students Kateřina Horníčková and Cristian Gaşpar assisted in copy-editing, and—following the well-established practice of the previous years—the Archaeolingua Foundation and Publishing House have turned the manuscripts into an impressive publication. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means without the permission of the publisher. Editorial Board János M. Bak, Neven Budak, Gerhard Jaritz, Gábor Klaniczay, József Laszlovszky, István Perczel, Judith Ann Rasson, Marianne Sághy Editors Marcell Sebők and Katalin Szende Cover illustration Horarium (K.394) f41v. Manuscript Collection of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Department of Medieval Studies Central European University H-1051 Budapest, Nádor u. 9., Hungary Postal address: H-1245 Budapest 5, P.O. Box 1082 E-mail: [email protected] Net: http://www.ceu.hu/medstud/web/home/index.html Copies can be ordered at the Department, and from the CEU Press http://www.ceupress.com/Order.html ISSN 1219-0616 Non-discrimination policy: CEU does not discriminate on the basis of—including, but not limited to—race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, gender or sexual orientation in administering its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs. © Central European University Produced by Archaeolingua Foundation & Publishing House VEĆENEGA’S ‘BOOK OF HOURS’: A MANUSCRIPT STUDY WITH SPECIAL STRESS ON DECORATED INITIALS Rozana Vojvoda Introduction The Book of Hours as a special genre of private devotional book reached the height of its popularity in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.1 The essential parts of a Book of Hours are the Calendar, the Sequences of the Gospel, the prayers Obsecro te and O intemerata, the Hours of the Virgin, the Hours of the Cross, the Hours of the Holy Spirit, Penitential Psalms, the Litany, the Office of the Dead, and the Suffrages of the Saints.2 However, except for the fact that they contain votive offices, the content of these books is flexible to a certain degree and in many ways shows individual cases of private devotion.3 The manuscript under study here is a private devotional book that shows many of the characteristics of the Book of Hours, which is puzzling since this manuscript originated in the eleventh century. Such an early date for a possible example of a ‘Book of Hours’ makes us reconsider the very beginnings of private devotion and the process in medieval society that formed this genre. A brief note about the provenance of the manuscript must be made before the question of genre can be explored.4 It is preserved in the Hungarian 1 Although most scholars agree that Books of Hours can be found as early as the end of the thirteenth century, I will refer to Hughes’ brief definition that places the beginnings of the Book of Hours even later: “Book of Hours: this is essentially a late fourteenth and fifteenth-century book for private devotion excerpting from the Breviary favourite offices, such as to the Virgin and for the dead and special psalms.” Andrew Hughes, Liturgical Manuscripts for Mass and Offices: a Guide to their Organization and Terminology (Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 1984), 120. 2 John P. Harthan, Books of Hours and Their Owners (London: Thames and Hudson, 1977), 15. 3 It must always be remembered that no two manuscripts of Books of Hours are exactly alike, the order of the separate parts was never fixed and the number of texts included could vary as much as their position in the book. See Harthan, Books of Hours, 15. 4 The article is a shortened version of my MA thesis. The chapters containing the codicological description, the provenance, and the possible workshop are not included, nor is the catalogue with the description of each initial. 9 Rozana Vojvoda Academy of sciences as K. 3945 . Dated to the eleventh century and written in Beneventan script, the codex