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A HISTORY OF THE OLD HUS.


HISTORICAL MEDALS 9 pieces.


A copy of a page out of the M. S. Hymnbook called the Gradual of Prague from the year 1572 „on which is written a hymn about the St. Master John Hus.

The pictures of that page represent:

John Baptist’s beheading.

The Burning of Hus

The Reformers: Wicliffe, Hus and Luther.


A SWORD

from the London private Merrick Collection of arms, bought in Edinburgh, a gift of scottish students to the Reformed church of Bohemia. On the blade are engraved the names of the Bohemian protestant nobles, who suffered after the battle of the White Mountain. On the hilt is impointed: „The last sorrowfull work done on the 21 June 1621 G. M.“

It is supposed to be one of the three swords used at that execution.


A SILVER CUP

dug up from a supposed Hussite grave at Kolín-Bohemia in 1868. Property of the Reformed Congregation in Kolín, Bohemia.


The walls of this room are decorated with frames containing some interesting engravings from the time of Master John Huss and the Period of the King Frederick II. and his wife, the Queen Elisabeth, daughter of James I. of England. Lent by the Museum of the City of Prague.

Mag. Joannes Hus.

Joannes Hus and „Hahn“.

Mag. Joannes Hus 1520.

Magister Joannes Hus on the pile.

The burning of Joannes Hus.

Joannes Žižka of Trocnov as herd.

Mag. Joannes Rokycana (the first and only archbishop subutraque.)