{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,2,6]],"date-time":"2026-02-06T23:32:21Z","timestamp":1770420741083,"version":"3.49.0"},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"Vittorio Klostermann GMBH","issue":"2","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["ZfBB"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2009]]},"abstract":"<p>Im Mittelpunkt steht der Jenaer Hussitenkodex - die in B\u00f6hmen um 1500 entstandene Sammelhandschrift, welche bis 1951 in der damaligen Universit\u00e4tsbibliothek Jena aufbewahrt wurde. 1951 wurde die Handschrift zum Objekt eines Handschriftentauschs: Als Geste der Wiedergutmachung f\u00fcr die im Zweiten Weltkrieg erlittenen Sch\u00e4den \u00fcberreichte sie der damalige Pr\u00e4sident der DDR, Wilhelm Pieck, bei einem Staatsbesuch in Prag seinem tschechoslowakischen Amtskollegen. Als Gegengeschenk erhielt die deutsche Seite ein fr\u00fchmittelalterliches Handschriftenfragment. Welche Reaktionen rief dieser politisch motivierte Handschriftentausch in der Presse und in der Fach\u00f6ffentlichkeit hervor, kann von einer Handschriftenaff\u00e4re gesprochen werden? Zun\u00e4chst richtet sich der Blick auf die \u00e4ltere Rezeptionsgeschichte des Jenaer Kodex. Exemplarisch aufgezeigt wird dessen zeitpolitische Wirkung im Sinne der kommunistischen Geschichtsideologie an einem deutschsprachigen Lehrfilm, welcher 1954 in der Tschechoslowakei entstand. Dar\u00fcber hinaus werden die politischen Hintergr\u00fcnde und die Umst\u00e4nde der Abholung des Kodex aus Jena geschildert und die hierauf hervorgerufenen Reaktionen diskutiert.\nThe focus of interest is on the Hussite Codex of Jena, a manuscript which originated in Bohemia around 1500 and had been stored at the University of Jena until 1951. In that year it became the object of a manuscript exchange. As a gesture of rectification for damages incurred during the Second World War, the then president of the German Democratic Republic (DDR), Wilhelm Pieck,presented it to his Czechoslovakian counterpart during a state visit to Prague. As a return present, the East Germans received another early medieval manuscript fragment. How did the press and professional circles react to this politically motivated exchange of manuscripts? Could it be dubbed a manuscript scandal? First of all, the article takes a look at the earlier history of the Jena Codex. Quintessential is then its political impact in terms of the communist ideology of history as seen in a German instructional film which was made in Czechoslovakia in 1954. Furthermore, the political background and the circumstances surrounding the collection of the codex in Jena and the reactions it caused are discussed here.<\/p>","DOI":"10.3196\/186429500956217","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,6,5]],"date-time":"2014-06-05T05:19:46Z","timestamp":1401945586000},"page":"071-078","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Der Jenaer Kodex : eine Handschriftenaff\u00e4re in der fr\u00fchen DDR?"],"prefix":"10.3196","volume":"56","author":[{"given":"Dr. Thomas","family":"Mutschler","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1809","container-title":["Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie"],"original-title":[],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2026,2,6]],"date-time":"2026-02-06T11:54:34Z","timestamp":1770378874000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/www.inlibra.com\/index.php?doi=10.3196\/186429500956217"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2009]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"2","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2009]]}},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3196\/186429500956217","relation":{},"ISSN":["1864-2950"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1864-2950","type":"print"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2009]]}}}