Přehled o publikaci

This paper takes into account the contemporary context of the creation of P. A. Mattiolli's botanical-medical publication and its language mutations. The author notices changes in the perception of later editions of the Renaissance work. Publication of the herbarium continues to the present day. Pietro Andrea Mattioli was an Italian physician and botanist (1501-1577). He began to write his herbarium as Commentarrii in sex libros Pedacii Dioscoridis - as a commentary on the work of Pedania Dioskúrid of Anazarba De materia medica (1st century AD). The Italian version of the herbarium was published in 1544. The expanded Latin version was created in 1554. At that time, Mattioli became the personal physician of Ferdinand Tyrolský in Prague. Here, Tadeáš Hájek from Hájek (1525-1600) extensively reworked Mattioli's text. His Czech version of the herbarium was published by Jiří Melantrich of Aventine in 1562. Melantrich also published a German version in 1563 translated by Georg Handsch of Česká Lípa. The Polish edition is published with the support of King Sigismund Augustus. The result of the translation of the work is, among other things, the significant influence of Polish botanical terminology by Hájk's Czech terminology. The townspeople used the herbarium for the next two hundred years as a practical handbook, but also as an atlas due to the descriptions of exotic plants. Today it is accepted primarily as a literary-linguistic and artistic gem, but also as a compendium of herbalists.