Published: 2021-03-06

An unknown manuscript record of the legend of petrified bread.

Tomasz Zuzek
Gdańsk Studies
Section: Artykuły
https://doi.org/10.26142/stgd-2020-033

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to supplement the information given in the work of Adam Kromer about petrified bread in the Oliwa church (published in volume 41 of the "Studia Gdańskie"), as well as the edition of an unknown record of this legend, contained in an anonymous manuscript created around 1617 in the Cistercian monastery in Oliwa. This manuscript is kept in the State Archive in Gdańsk, and its author could have been the prior of the Oliwa monastery Filip Adler (1566-1630). It contains unknown informations about the fate of the stone itself and a bilingual inscription (in Latin and German) that was hung above it.Keywords: the Cistercians, Oliwa, legend, the edition of sources, manuscripts of Oliwa

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the Cistercians, Oliwa, legend, the edition of sources, manuscripts of Oliwa

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Zuzek, T. (2021). An unknown manuscript record of the legend of petrified bread. Gdańsk Studies, 47, 213–225. https://doi.org/10.26142/stgd-2020-033

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