Appendix: Bohemian Marian Laments — Excerpts

Summary

Roudnický plankt (Lament from Roudnice)

Roudnice nad Labem, Lobkowicz Library, VI Fd 5, Poemata, one separate leaf of paper. Edition: Škarka, Antonín, “Roudnický plankt,” Listy filologické 79 (1956): 187‒94. Translation author's (vv. 17–56).

Plankt nebo žaloscenie matky božie u veliký pátek (Planct or Lamentation of the Mother of God on Good Friday)

Prague, National Library, XVII F 30, Milíčʼs Prayers, fols. 167r–170v, www.manuscriptorium.com. Edition: “Plankt nebo žaloscenie Matky Božie u Veliký pátek.” In Malý výbor ze staročeské literatury: podle rukopisův c. k. knihovny vysokých škol pražských XIV.–XVII. století posud z větší části netištěných, edited by Ignác Jan Hanuš (Praha, 1863): 56–60. Translation author’s.

Pláč svaté Mařie (Lament of Virgin Mary)

Prague, National Library, XXIII G 92, The Manuscript of Hradec Králové, fols. 51r–61r, www.manuscriptorium.com. Edition: “Pláč svaté Mařie.” In Hradecký rukopis, edited

Pláč Marie Magdalény (Lament of Mary Magdalene)

Prague, National Library, XXIII G 92, The Manuscript of Hradec Králové, fols. 25r–51v, www.manuscriptorium.com/. Edition: “Pláč Marie Magdalény.” In Hradecký rukopis, edited by Adolf Patera (Praha, 1881): 77–145. Translation author's (vv. 1–8, 75–96, 471–502).

Planctus Mariae

Prague, National Library, XIV A 17, Passionale quod dicitur Cunegundis abbatissae, fols. 11r‒17v, www.manuscriptorium.com. Edited by Pavel Spunar in Kolda z Koldic. Tractatus mystici ‒ Mystické traktáty, 31–47. (Praha: Oikoumene, 1997). Czech translation: Vilikovský, Písemnictví českého středověku, 41‒43. Translation author’s, with the assistance of Tomáš Weissar.

Et dormicione et quietacione sponsi in vespere grandis secuta est desolacio virginis et matris Mariae. Et Jeremie vaticinium luctum unigeniti fecit sibi et planctum amarum Symeonis gladio transverberata flens et eiulans lamentabiliter incedebat dicens: Quis dabit capiti meo aquam, et oculis meis fontem lacrimarum ut plorem die at nocte, contricionem dilecti filii mei. Heu heu, longe factus est a me, qui consolabatur me. […] Intuemini, quia caput eis plenum est rore et cincinni eis guttis noctium […] Lectulus dormicionis, idest mortis eius, non est latus, et sericis mollibus stratus, sed de ligno duro fabrefactus penaliter […] Sic nempe ille declinaverat, quando moriens patibulo obdormiens in manus patris spiritum inclinato capite commendabat. Inde translatus, indurissimi lapidis spelunca est repositus, et ad voluto saxo ad ostium monumenti inter mortuos est locatus. Attendite igitur innumeri populi et videte dolorem meum, si, inquam, visus dolor similis sicut dolor meus.