ipt of Koeniginhof. According to Dobrovsky, who formed his
judgment from the writing, this remarkable manuscript belongs to the
interval from about A.D. 1290 to A.D. 1310. By the numbering of the
chapters and books into which it is divided, it appears that the
collection comprised three volumes; and that the manuscript thus
accidentally rescued from oblivion, is only a small part of the third
volume. Goethe honoured it with his peculiar attention and applause.
Bowring has given some pleasing specimens of it, in his essay on
Bohemian literature in the Foreign Quarterly Review, Vol. II. p.
151-153]

[Footnote 14: It was first published by Jeshin, A.D. 1620; later by
Prochazka, Prague 1786. The author spurned no means to reach his
patriotic object, viz. to inspire his nation with hatred against the
Germans. The most absurd fables came through him into the early
history of Bohemia. During the late rule of prince Metternich, this
work was considered by the censors as too ultra-national, and was put
on the list of the forbidden books. It is only quite recently (1849),
that Hanka has been allowed to publish a new edition, carefully
prepared by himself after the collation of several manuscripts.]

[Footnote 15: The History of Troy was one of the first works which
issued from the Bohemian press, about A.D. 1476 according to
Dobrovsky; and again A.D. 1488, and 1603. It was published for the
fourth and last time by Kramerius in 1790. Even before it was printed,
it appears to have been multiplied in a great many copies, as being a
favourite book among the Bohemian knights and damsels. Its author was
Guido di Colonna. See Dobrovsky's _Geschichte der boehm. Sprache_, p.
155. Another remarkable production of the fourteenth century is
_Tkadleczek_, the Little Weaver, the manuscript of which is extant in
several copies; but it has been printed only in an ancient German
translation; see Dobrovsky, ibid. p. 157.]

[Footnote 16: This work was printed in 1542; it was put into the
renowned _Index librorum prohibitorum_ first printed in 1629, and the
Bohemian part last in 1767; the original author of which was the
famous Jesuit Koniash, one of the most violent book-destroyers who
ever lived. Not only all books written by the Hussites or their
immediate predecessors, but even many catholic writers also of that
period were put upon this list; e.g. the historian Hagek, translations
of AEneas Sylvius, etc.]

[Footnote 17: Ann, queen of Engla