The series Libri Civitatis focuses on publication of the oldest and most significant manuscripts of town books preserved in the Czech and Moravian archives. The aim of the series is to make these important documents available for researchers with additional critical apparatus, including comments on language character of manuscripts. There are,however, town books, whose character of records requires different approach. This concerns for example the Books of Burgher Rights for which was used more appropriate form of regest records arranged in charts. Generally individual volumes of the series are structured as follows. Methodologically they are based on literature below:
Introductory historical study
The formal description (diplomatic - paleographic analysis of the document)
Language analysis (especially with regard to language development)
Study on the content of the document
Detailed editorial note
Edition of the documents with a critical apparatus
Bibliography
Foreign language summary (English, German)
Indexes - name, local, subject
Editorial work takes into account the nature of the manuscript, the period of its origin and language, in which it was written. It is follows editorial principles, see:
I.ŠŤOVÍČEK A KOL, Zásady pro vydávání historických pramenů od počátku 16. století do současnosti, Praha 2002.
J. SCHULTZE, Richtlinien für äussere Textgestalgung bei Herausgabe von Quellen zur neueren deutschen Geschichte, Blätter für deutsche Landesgeschichte 1962, Jhg. 98, s. 1-11.
M. THUMSER, Verfahrensweisen bei der Edition deutschsprachiger Geshichtsquellen (13.–16. Jahrhundert), s. 13–34, in: Edition deutschsprachiger Quellen aus dem Ostseeraum (14.–16. Jahrhundert), Hrsg. Matthias Thumser, Janusz Tandecki, Dieter Heckmann. Toruń 2001.
LIBRI CIVITATIS X.
Tomáš Klír (edd.) a kol.
Univerzita J. E. Purkyně, Scriptorium, 2017
ISBN: 978-80-7414-943-6, 978-80-88013-13-6
LIBRI CIVITATIS IX.
Jan Lhoták (edd.)
Univerzita J. E. Purkyně, Scriptorium, Univerzita Karlova 2016
ISBN: 978-80-7414-943-6, 978-80-88013-13-6, 978-80-7308-655-8
LIBRI CIVITATIS VIII.
Jaroslava Mendelová (edd.)
Univerzita J. E. Purkyně, Scriptorium, 2016
ISBN: 978-80-7414-943-6, 978-80-88013-13-6
LIBRI CIVITATIS VII.
Pavel Holub (edd.)
Univerzita J. E. Purkyně, Scriptorium, 2015
ISBN: 978-80-7414-943-6, 978-80-88013-13-6
LIBRI CIVITATIS VI.
Jaroslava Mendlová (ed.),
Books of Burgher Rights in New Town, Prague 1612 - 1657,
Prague - Ústí nad Labem 2012
Books of Burgher Rights in New Town, Prague provide information on newly accepted burghers and so they bring an important testimony of social, economic, cultural, and ethnic development in one of the important parts of Prague City.
LIBRI CIVITATIS V.
Jaroslava Mendlová (ed.),
Books of Burgher Rights in New Town, Prague 1518-1581,
Prague - Ústí nad Labem 2011
Books of Burgher Rights in New Town, Prague provide information on newly accepted burghers and so they bring an important testimony of social, economic, cultural, and ethnic development in one of the important parts of Prague City.
LIBRI CIVITATIS IV.
B. Kocánová , M. Hrubá and Jan Mareš and coll. (edd.),
Juridical and Memorial Book of Ústí nad Labem 1438-1514,
Ústí nad Labem, in print
The oldest book of the royal town of Ústí nad Labem, which is an important testimony of the development of the town in the turn of the 15 and 16 century.
LIBRI CIVITATIS III.
Barbora Kocánová, Jindřich Tomas and coll. (ed.), The oldest town book of Litoměřice 1341-1562
Ústí nad Labem 2006
The oldest town book of a major royal town of Litoměřice and also the third oldest preserved book in Bohemia.
LIBRI CIVITATIS II.
Martin Myšička (ed.) and coll.
Index of the construction of the dean church of the Assumption of Mary in Most 1517-1519, Ústí nad Labem 2006
The oldest town book of the royal town of Most, which is a unique resource about the construction of a new late Gothic dean church which was built after the great fire of the town in the year of 1515.
LIBRI CIVITATIS I
Ivana Ebelová (ed.) and coll.
The oldest town book of Česká Lípa 1461-1722,
Ústí nad Labem 2005
The oldest town book of Česká Lípa contains mainly records of granting burghers their rights. It is also very important resource for the history of the town in the first centuries of its development.