he Student Union at Nový Bydžov has arranged a student-feast »The 128th Merendah« in this year, to celebrate the bicentenary of the first Merendah. The importance of these feasts, the Merendahs, exceeded highly that of other local feasts, especially in the time of the Revival of our Nation. The participation even of the most prominent men and women, who had well deserved of the Revival of our Nation, in these feasts, proves their considerable significance for the cultural develop- ment of the whole Nation. The students of Nový Bydžov decided to use a part of the net proceeds of the 128. Merendah for the autotypical publication of the first quire of the judicial book ot the town of Nový Bydžov called »Liber conscien- cie« and so proved a deep sense of their duty towards the Nation and towards its cultural needs, in a very nice way. This booklet contains the autotype-reproduction of the sixteen pages opening the Book of Conscience, Liber consciencie of the town of Nový Bydžov (paginae 21—36 according to the pagination from the beginning of the 19th century, that didn't take into consideration the fact, that the original sequence of the quires of the book had been put in disorder by a negligent bookbinder). In fact, the notation of the tables (I.—XVI.) is the right pagination of the published pages of the book. The Book of Conscience contains 231 parchment folios at the present time. It seems, however, it had but 32 leaves when founded; the number of the quires increased later on according to the want of place for further entries. — When reffering to the text of the book we mention the figures of the tables in the first place. The Book of conscience that was founded in the year 1311 — only a few years after the foundation of the town of Nový Bydžov by the king Wenceslas II. — and the book of the Old Town of Prague, from the year 1310, usually called Liber vetustissimus Veteris urbis Pragensis, are the two oldest town-books in this country, preserved to the present [ 151