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Petr MAŤA, Svět české aristokracie (1500–1700), Praha 2004, pp. 17–22.
Jan JANÁK – Zdeňka HLEDÍKOVÁ, Dějiny správy v českých zemích do roku 1945, Praha 1989, p. 106.
Edita IVANIČKOVÁ – Eva KOWALSKÁ (edd.), Inventing Each Other. Anglo-Saxon World and Central Europe 1500–1800. International Conference. Forum of British, Czech and Slovak Historians, Topoľčianky 21.–23. September 2006, Bratislava 2009.
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P. MAŤA, Svět, pp. 67–76.
J. JANÁK – Z. HLEDÍKOVÁ, Dějiny správy, pp. 108–109.
E. IVANIČKOVÁ – E. KOWALSKÁ (edd.), Inventing Each Other.
If the cited publications or studies have a subtitle, include it as well. The same applies to the titles of anthologies, where you should also try to indicate whether they are part of a larger series, as is common especially with publications of German origin.
Gabriele WIMBÖCK – Karin LEONHARD – Markus FRIEDRICH (edd.), Evidentia. Reichweiten visueller Wahrnehmung in der Frühen Neuzeit, Pluralisierung und Autorität 9, ed. vom Sonderforschungsbereich 573, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Berlin 2007.
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Josef MACEK, Historická sémantika, Český časopis historický 89, 1991, No. 1, pp. 1–30, here p. 9.
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J. MACEK, Historická sémantika, p. 27.
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Zdeněk HOJDA, Le grandezze d’Italia. Die Kavalierstouren der böhmischen Adeligen, die Kunstbetrachtung und die Kunstsammlungen im 17. Jahrhundert, in: Hans-Bernd Harder – Hans Rothe (edd.), Studien zum Humanismus in den böhmischen Ländern III, Köln – Weimar – Wien 1993, pp. 151–160, here p. 153.
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Z. HOJDA, Le grandezze d’Italia, p. 36.
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Josef HRDLIČKA (ed.), Autobiografie Jana Nikodéma Mařana Bohdaneckého z Hodkova, České Budějovice 2003, pp. 15ff.
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J. HRDLIČKA (ed.), Autobiografie, pp. 324–325, letter No. 1013.
If the edited source has both an author and an editor:
Erasmus ROTTERDAMSKÝ, Chvála bláznovství, ed. Martin Svatoš, Praha 1990, p. 305, letter No. 10, 11 October 1500.
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Antonín TRUHLÁŘ – Karel HRDINA – Josef HEJNIC – Jan MARTÍNEK, Rukověť humanistického básnictví v Čechách a na Moravě I–V, Praha 1966–1982.
Sněmy české od léta 1526 až po naši dobu III: 1558–1573, Praha 1884, here pp. 209–210.
Viktor BIBL (ed.), Korrespondenz Maximilians II. I: Familienkorrespondenz 1564 Juli 26 – 1566 August 11, Wien 1916, Nr. 155, pp. 190–191, Maximilian II. an Erzherzog Ferdinand (Wien, 8. Juni 1565).
If the edition is divided into sections and series:
Stephan EHSES (ed.), Nuntiaturberichte aus Deutschland I/7, Heft 2: Ottavio Mirto Frangipani in Köln 1587–1590, Quellen und Forschungen aus dem Gebiete der Geschichte, Paderborn 1899.
Prints
Jan KALVÍN, Pokorné a ponížené napomínání k nejnepřemoženějšímu císaři Karlovi Pátému a k nejosvícenějším kniežatuom i jiným stavům nynie v Špejru sněm říšský držícím, Nürnberg, Anton Gruber, 1546, I, p. 13, § 4.
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Manuscripts
British Library, sign. Ef. 1220, Descriptio Urbis Pilsnae, fol. 6r.
Archival sources
The following information must be provided: location, name of the fund, its part, box, signature, inventory number, type of document, date, and, if applicable, addressee and originator.
Státní oblastní archiv Litoměřice – pobočka Žitenice, Rodinný archiv Lobkoviců, Dopisy Kryštofa Adolfa Lobkovice, sign. 24/L, Box No. 21, Inv. No. 111, dopis Kryštofa Adolfa jeho matce Amélii z 14. října 1810.
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