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SYNOPSES, ZUSAMMENFASSUNGEN
administrator and Carniolan Committee members (Ljubljana, 29 October 1564)
- with the Provincial Estates behind him, and thus with the political commitment
of the provincial nobility, not of the prince. Thus with the reception and opera-
tion of the Cerkovna ordninga, it seems that Trubar succeeded in organizing a de
facto functioning provincial church. But because of the political referential
framework of the Peace of Augsburg, this remained from then on unacknowl-
edged de iure and thus was also legally beyond the law – relying, in addition to
God’s help, primarily on the still fortunate political relation of forces between
the strong Estates and the not (too) strong provincial prince on account of the
Turkish danger present at that time.
Keywords: Trubar, Protestant literature, 16th century, Cerkovna ordninga (1564)
– its state-law and political context
UDC 284.1(497.4)"1564":929Trubar P.
Ulrich-Dieter Oppitz, Christoph Weismann
The Slovene Church Order 1564 – another copy discovered
This article reports first-hand on the discovery of the Memmingen copy of
Trubar’s Cerkovna Ordninga, also providing a detailed description of it. When
Ulrich-Dieter Oppitz found this new copy of the Ordninga in Memmingen in
October 2013, he turned to Christoph Weismann, who has died this year, who
after Markuž’s discovery (1971) of the only known extant copy in the Vatican
library was the first to describe it in great detail (1972). Oppitz also had Weis-
mann as co-author of this presentation of the new find. The two authors provide
an exhaustive description, comparing it with the Vatican copy and the known
characteristics of the Dresden copy of the work, which was lost in 1945, conclud-
ing that Cerkovna Ordninga is now truly available in its entirety in an intact copy,
which is in public possession and available for research. As a special advantage
they also stress the fact that that this new find was a copy in personal use. Many
of the South Slavonic books from Urach avoided the Counter-Reformation de-
struction precisely because they were sent as gifts and dedicatory copies to the
princes, town magistrates and other supporters of the Urach institute and were
placed in the recipients’ libraries. The Memmingen copy is a precious source of
personal ascriptions of the book’s owner, whose identity as an author is also
clarified: he was Bernard Steiner of Kamnik (Stein), who in 1568 with Trubar’s
support received a scholarship from the Tiffern foundation, and the following
year was registered at the University of Tübingen, where he achieved his bacca-
laureate and master’s degree. From July 1569 he no longer lived in the students’
residence, as on Primož Trubar’s initiative he became a tutor (praeceptor) to the
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administrator and Carniolan Committee members (Ljubljana, 29 October 1564)
- with the Provincial Estates behind him, and thus with the political commitment
of the provincial nobility, not of the prince. Thus with the reception and opera-
tion of the Cerkovna ordninga, it seems that Trubar succeeded in organizing a de
facto functioning provincial church. But because of the political referential
framework of the Peace of Augsburg, this remained from then on unacknowl-
edged de iure and thus was also legally beyond the law – relying, in addition to
God’s help, primarily on the still fortunate political relation of forces between
the strong Estates and the not (too) strong provincial prince on account of the
Turkish danger present at that time.
Keywords: Trubar, Protestant literature, 16th century, Cerkovna ordninga (1564)
– its state-law and political context
UDC 284.1(497.4)"1564":929Trubar P.
Ulrich-Dieter Oppitz, Christoph Weismann
The Slovene Church Order 1564 – another copy discovered
This article reports first-hand on the discovery of the Memmingen copy of
Trubar’s Cerkovna Ordninga, also providing a detailed description of it. When
Ulrich-Dieter Oppitz found this new copy of the Ordninga in Memmingen in
October 2013, he turned to Christoph Weismann, who has died this year, who
after Markuž’s discovery (1971) of the only known extant copy in the Vatican
library was the first to describe it in great detail (1972). Oppitz also had Weis-
mann as co-author of this presentation of the new find. The two authors provide
an exhaustive description, comparing it with the Vatican copy and the known
characteristics of the Dresden copy of the work, which was lost in 1945, conclud-
ing that Cerkovna Ordninga is now truly available in its entirety in an intact copy,
which is in public possession and available for research. As a special advantage
they also stress the fact that that this new find was a copy in personal use. Many
of the South Slavonic books from Urach avoided the Counter-Reformation de-
struction precisely because they were sent as gifts and dedicatory copies to the
princes, town magistrates and other supporters of the Urach institute and were
placed in the recipients’ libraries. The Memmingen copy is a precious source of
personal ascriptions of the book’s owner, whose identity as an author is also
clarified: he was Bernard Steiner of Kamnik (Stein), who in 1568 with Trubar’s
support received a scholarship from the Tiffern foundation, and the following
year was registered at the University of Tübingen, where he achieved his bacca-
laureate and master’s degree. From July 1569 he no longer lived in the students’
residence, as on Primož Trubar’s initiative he became a tutor (praeceptor) to the
427
