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SEPTEMBER

Invitation

Press release

Admission ticket sale and advanced booking
for the period of September 2007 starts
More info on www.nkp.cz

CODEX GIGAS - THE DEVIL'S BIBLE
The Secret of the World's Largest Book
Digital version (in the National Library of Sweden)

20th September 2007 - 6th January 2008

The exhibition features Codex gigas, also called The Devil´s Bible, which is considered to be the largest known manuscript in the world. It originated probably at the beginning of the 13th century but nothing is known about the origin itself. It was owned by a Benedictine Monastery of Podlažice near Chrudim, Bohemia. Later the codex passed to the famous collections of Emperor Rudolph II, where it was taken from as a war booty by Swedish troops in 1648.

Now, after more than 350 years, the manuscript returns to Bohemia - at least for a certain period - thanks to the kind loan from the National Library of Sweden.

The exhibition shows not only the original manuscript itself but also its contents and artistic features as well as its significance and function. Visitors will have the opportunity to follow the fortunes of the manuscript from its origin to its preservation in Sweden. The exhibition has been organised under the auspices of Prime Minister of the CR, Mirek Topolánek, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the CR, Karel Schwarzenberg, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden, Carl Bildt, Minister of Culture of the CR, Václav Jehlička, Ambassador of Sweden to the CR, H.E. Ms. Catherine von Heidenstam, Mayor of Prague, Pavel Bém and Ambassador of the CR to Sweden, H.E. Mrs. Marie Chatardové.

Admission
100 CZK - adults, 50 CZK - students, seniors, children 10-15 years
50 CZK/1 person - groups over 10 persons
free - children up to 10 years (advanced booking needed)

Klementinum Gallery, daily except Mondays: 10 am - 7 pm

Promotion article

Milestones on the Way to a New Library Building
A Look Back at /over/ the Past and the Present
permanent exhibition

The exhibition presents repeated efforts to get a new building for the National Library, which can be traced from as early as the mid-19th century.

Groundfloor corridor, Monday to Saturday: 9 am - 7 pm

DMYTRO ANTONOVYCH AND UKRAINIAN ART
Organisation of learning and museology
19th July - 27th September 2007

The exhibition commemorating the 130th anniversary of the birth of Dmytro Antonovych is organised by the Slavonic Library in cooperation with the Czech Association of Ukrainists, the National Archive, Prague, and Státní okresní archiv Nymburk (State District Archive, Nymburk) based in Lysá nad Labem.
The author of the exhibition is Oksana Pelenska.

3rd floor, Slavonic Library, Monday to Friday: 9 am - 7 pm, Saturday: 9 am - 2 pm

Karel Fischer ( 1757 - 1844)
A Story of the Klementinum´s Librarian and Hebrew Censor
PROLONGED UP TO SEPTEMBER 30, 2007
19th April - 30th June 2007

The exhibition is organised by the National Library of the Czech Republic in association with the Jewish Museum, Prague. It reflects three anniversaries significant for the history of the Library: the 200th death anniversary of its first (non-Jesuit) library director Karel Rafael Ungar, the 230th anniversary of opening the Library to the public, and the 250th birthday anniversary of Karel Fischer.

Director´s Corridor, 1st floor, Monday to Saturday: 9 am - 7 pm

EXHIBITIONS 2007