Prameny k dějinám Židů v Čechách a na Moravě ve středověku We can assume that the motives of Premysl Otakar II in issuing his Jewish statutes were the same as the motives of Frederick II the Quarrelsome, i.e. that he likely wanted to ensure the exclusive royal property (the Jews) for himself as against the claims of the Holy Roman Emperor. This is supported by the circumstance that the Jews in Bohemia and Moravia were never considered as imperial subjects, but remained at all times under the authority of the king of Bohemia. By the reign of Přemysl Otakar II (1253-1278), these Statuta Iudeorum assumed the character of general privileges for the Jewish population in all of the lands of the royal dominion (Nr. 51).33 It is therefore very noteworthy that it was Premysl Otakar II who on 23rd of August 1268 directly granted such privileges to the Brno Jewish community (Nr. 54). The significance of the document itself for the Brno Jewish community is illustrated by the fact that its original was kept safe as late as in the middle of the 14th century and was also confirmed by Premysl’s son and successor King Wenceslas II.34 This group of municipal rights also includes the so-called Prague municipal right from the end of the 13th and beginning of the 14th century (Nr. 84), but in this case it is not entirely clear for whom the law was intended, and there are also justified doubts as to whether it ever came into general effect. Nevertheless, all of these rights have very similar provisions and differ from one another only in details. They usually include the provisions of Jewish rights and freedoms. The most frequent are provisions regarding the maximum interest that can be charged, conditions of testimony before the court, strict punishments for sexual contacts between Jews and Christians, the lists of items that Jews should not take for a pledge and the punishment for killing a Jew. Some provisions concerning Jews also appear in both main versions of Jihlava's rights of burghers and miners, called Iura civium et montanorum (Nr. 49, 50). Some towns in Bohemia and Moravia, as well as in neighbouring lands, soon sought to emulate those municipal rights as well as the other Jihlava burghers' and miners’ rights, granted in 1249, and appealed to them later as to their own rights. For this reason, the Jihlava rendering of the Jewish statutes became at that time arguably their most widespread version.35 33) On the new dating to 1262, see ZACHOVA 1978, pp. 71�74; HILSCH 1983, esp. p. 25. 34) FLODR 2001, p. 125. 35) In the legal manuscripts of these and other towns we encounter copies of the basic Jihlava rights, whether in the original form or in the form extended by new articles, which the Jihlava councillors added to the original version of their rights sometime at the end of the 13h century. Evidence of the widespread use of the Jihlava rights is also shown in several German and Czech translations of them from the 14h and 15h centuries, which have been preserved in several manuscripts, as well as copies of the Jihlava town rights in the municipal books of other Bohemian and Moravian towns. The basic text is contained in the famous privilege A, long dated to 1249 (hence it is categorized as a forgery also by Sebánek and Dušková in the latest edition in CDB IV/I, Nr. 177, pp. 310-311). The issue of Jihlava municipal and mi- XLVI