This paper considers two polyphonic sources from the turn of the seventeenth century (CZ-Pu, 59 E 9726/1-3 (olim XXXIII C 20), and D-Dl, Mus. Pi. 2), which are linked to the Bohemian Humanist and musician Nicolaus Dionysius (ca. 1577-1647), who was expelled from the Kingdom of Bohemia to Pirna, Saxony, in 1627 because of his Lutheran faith. This paper summarizes Dionysius's life and works and discusses his role in the transportation of these two musical sources from Prague to Pirna during the Thirty Years' War.

The festivities of the Order of the Golden Fleece in Prague and Landshut in June 1585 have already attracted much attention among historians. This article considers the musical part of the celebration that has yet not been discussed in detail. Using extant narrative, iconographical and musical sources, it focuses on the first part of the festivity which took place at Prague Castle. It postulates a hypothesis that the forty-part motet Ecce beatam lucem from the Mantuan composer and instrumentalist Alessandro Striggio (1536/37-1592) based on the text of German musician and poet Paulus Melissus-Schede (1539-1602) was performed in St. Vitus' cathedral.

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