Karta Medycka (1405)
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Karta medycka (The Page of Medyka, also called the Page of Swidzinski) is a single page from early 15th century, which contains Polish version of
Psalm 50 Psalm 50, a Psalm of Asaph, is the 50th psalm from the Book of Psalms in the Bible, beginning in English in the King James Version: "The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down ...
, similar to the one included in
St. Florian's Psalter The Sankt Florian Psalter or Saint Florian Psalter ( la, Psalterium florianense or , german: Florianer Psalter or , pl, Psałterz floriański or ) is a brightly illuminated trilingual manuscript psalter, written between late 14th and early 15th ...
. In lower right corner of the page there is a note stating that it was written by a monk from a monastery in
Kazimierz Kazimierz (; la, Casimiria; yi, קוזמיר, Kuzimyr) is a historical district of Kraków and Kraków Old Town, Poland. From its inception in the 14th century to the early 19th century, Kazimierz was an independent city, a royal city of the ...
, a district of Kraków, most likely after 1405. The page was found in 1832 by scholar Konstanty Swidzinski. At first it was kept at the Pawlikowski Library in Medyka, then at the Ossolineum in Lwow. Currently, it is kept at the Ossolineum in Wrocław.


Sources

* Teresa Michalowska: sredniowiecze. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 1995, s. 300, seria: Wielka Historia Literatury Polskiej. . * Przeklady Pisma sw. na j. polski - Rekopisy. Wiara.pl. Polish literature Bible translations into Polish History of Christianity in Poland 15th-century Christian texts {{Christian-book-stub