Metropolitan Chapter Research Articles

Mary J. Mycek

Mary J. Mycek, 94, died June 2, 2021, in Derby, Connecticut. “Dr. Mycek identified and named the enzyme transglutaminase and characterized the reaction it catalyzed. Her research centered on the mechanism of the brain’s tolerance to barbiturates . Among many publications, she authored three editions of Pharmacology (Lippincott). She served on several study sections at the National Institutes of Health and chaired the NIH Committee on Pharmacological Sciences (1980–1982). She also served as secretary of the Biochemical Pharmacology Discussion Group at the New York Academy of Sciences (1961–1971). She received the Outstanding Woman in Science Award from the Metropolitan Chapter of American Women in Science in New York City in 1994.”—Timothy and Marian O’Keefe, friends Most recent title: Professor, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Education: AB, chemistry, Brown University, 1948; PhD, biochemistry, Yale University, 1955 To recognize your late loved one or colleague, submit obituary information at

A Pragmatic Theory of Everyday Imposition of Words in an Anonymous Thirteenth-Century Commentary on De anima (MS Prague, Metropolitan Chapter, M. 80, ff. 54vA–55rB)

The aim of this paper is to offer an edition of three anonymous questions on De anima II.8, contained in MS Prague, Metropolitan Chapter, M. 80, ff. 54vA–55vB and dated 1250–1260. The text offers an original theory of the everyday imposition of words. To present it, I (i) analyze the contemporary question-commentaries on De anima II.8; (ii) I present the theory of everyday imposition by discussing the analogies with, and differences from, Bacon’s contemporary pragmatic theory; and (iii) I discuss the hypothesis of the attribution of the text to Roger Bacon.

ОТЕЦЬ КЛИМЕНТІЙ ШЕПТИЦЬКИЙ — КАНДИДАТ НА ЄПИСКОПА-ПОМІЧНИКА ЛЬВІВСЬКОЇ АРХИЄПАРХІЇ З ПРАВАМИ НАСТУПНИЦТВА

In 1917, Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytskyi is returning from Russian captivity. And although he arrives to his native eparchy with the glory of a tsarist prisoner, nevertheless, the period of his exile has greatly affected his health. Realizing the challenges facing him, he begins consultations with his closest associates on the candidacy of a bishop-assistant for Lviv Archeparchy. Lviv Chapter considered the Metropolitan’s native brother, Father Klymentii Sheptytskyi, to be the most suitable candidate. However both of them, he personally, as well as Metropolitan Andrey, were categorically against it. Despite this, the Capitular Fathers tried, often bypassing the person of Metropolitan Andrey, to convince the Apostolic Capital to use its authority and under obedience to make Father Klymentii agree to accept the title of the Assistant Bishop of Lviv with the rights of succession. And although in the meantime His Most Reverend Bishop Ivan Buchko became the Assistant Bishop of Lviv, nevertheless, the case of Klymentii Sheptytskyi candidacy for the BishopAssistant of Lviv Archeparchy with the rights of succession was in procedure until December 22, 1939, when Metropolitan Andrey secretly ordained Father Josyf Slipyj as his assistant and successor. In the Central State Historical Archive of Lviv there are several files containing correspondence which shed light on the issue of the candidacy of Father Klymentii Sheptytskyi for the bishop-assistant of Lviv with the rights of succession. It is this correspondence that formed the basis of the present article. All documents are published for the first time. Keywords: Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Pope Pius XI, Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytskyi, Archimandrite Klymentii Sheptytskyi, Father Olexandr Bachynskyy, Lviv Metropolitan Chapter, Father Pankratiy Kandyuk.

Źródła rękopiśmienne klasztoru klarysek gnieźnieńskich w Archiwum Archidiecezjalnym w Gnieźnie. Stan wiedzy, prezentacja spuścizny i możliwości badawcze

The aim of the article is to present and analyse the manuscript legacy of the Poor Clares Convent in Gniezno. After the dissolution of the convent in the nineteenth century (likely the second half), this legacy was transferred to the Archive of the Metropolitan Chapter, and is currently held in the Archdiocesan Archive in Gniezno. So far, researchers have not been particularly interested in studying this material. This collection consists of manuscripts, documents and parchment diplomas, most of which are in the form of loose records (AKM – A Cap) – over 2,500 items and over 4,000 cards. 27 manuscripts are held in a few collections: six items in the fonds of the Poor Clares Convent (ZKG) and 21 in the division of the Archive of the Metropolitan Chapter (A. Cap. B). The latter relate to economic and accounting matters. The manuscripts fall into three categories: a legal and normative category which comprises monastic rules and constitutions (two documents), a category which includes liturgical books (five) and the records on the ceremony of taking the veil, and the most numerous group – material relating to economic and accounting matters. The third category contains 10 manuscripts of expenses and/or income of the convent (even the oldest one from 1613), the inventory of the Poor Clares’ rural property of 1593, and 10 items dating back to the second half of the eighteenth century containing settlements with the convent’s serfs in the town of Kostrzyn and villages which belonged to this monastic congregation. A precious document that fits into the monastic literary output of the early modern period is the code entitled “The books of all matters of the Gniezno Convent of the Poor Clares. This is a catalogue of all the nuns who ever took monastic vows in this convent, both dead and alive. This is also the inventory of the whole property of the convent, its farm income and privileges […] diligently written in 1609 AD”. The code consists of 802 paper pages with several dozen types of handwriting. The data it contains are prosopographic and economic (over half of them) details, information about the realities of life and the functioning of this enclosed community. Despite being a small collection, the manuscripts are an extremely valuable legacy due to the wide range of information they contain. Loose records have an even greater amount of information. A comprehensive and detailed study of the material mentioned above, particularly the economic and accounting manuscripts, will shed light on the methods of managing the convent estate, the finances of the congregation in the sixteenth-eighteenth centuries, and the functioning of the convent in the urban economy and society of Gniezno in the early modern period. Only a detailed analysis will make it possible to answer a number of questions about the internal affairs of the convent, its material culture, the everyday life of the nuns, and above all the convent estate: the profitability of the property, a budget, the structure of income statement accounts and the standard of living of the nuns.

A Cyrillic manuscript appendix as a part of the Czech-Latin volume Hareticorum armatura from the library of the metropolitan chapter of St. Vitus in Prague, as a possible trace of F. Skaryna

[full article, abstract in Russian; abstract in Lithuanian and English]
 This article deals with the manuscript codex from the first half of the 16th century Hareticorum armatura (archive: Archiv Pražského hradu, collection: Knihovna Metropolitní kapituly u sv. Víta, sign. D.118), which is composed mostly of texts written in Latin and Czech. There is also a passage (Fig. 136–139) written in Old Russian with the Cyrillic script. On the flyleaf of the book, a record of its owner Liber mgri Johannis Hertemberger de Cubito can be found, which indicates that the book was being kept in the library of the Saint Vitus chapter (Jan Herttemberger z Lokte was the canon of the Saint Vitus chapter between 1480-1498) from the end of the 15th century.Analysis of the book reveals a possibility that later, at the beginning of the 16th century or in the first half of the 16th century, another compilation was added to Jan Herttemberger’s volume, which contained a Cyrillic source. The fact, that the Old Russian manuscript was attached to the predominantly Latin codex, was apparently predetermined by practical thinking. The Cyrillic booklet was made of solid paper and as such could reinforce the seam line (binding) of the Latin book.The Cyrillic text contains Latin glosses; in turn, the Latin text (Poggi Florentini ad Leonardum Aretinum epistola de morte Hieronymi Pragensis, f. 169v–175v) contains a Cyrillic note , which is to be found in the margins on f. 174v. These features indicate that the compiler or the owner of the codex was a literate Catholic of the first half of the 16th century, who mastered writing in Cyrillic script and knew Old Russian. Of all famous persons of East Slavic origin, only F. Skaryna is closely associated with the Prague royal court (the Prague Castle) in 1534–1539. The content of the manuscript (the register of numerals and the recipe of ink) can be linked to a private press (the pagination of Skoryna’s publications could be made with the help of the list of ordinal numbers).

Jednání o obsazení uvolněných kanonikátů olomoucké kapituly ve 30. letech 20. století a úsilí o schválení nových kapitulních stanov

The Appointment of the Vacant Canons in the metropolitan chapter of Olomouc, according to the statutes of 1826, included the Metropolitan Chapter and the Emperor. This type of occupation was abolished by the new Code of Canon Law (1917) and in 1918 the monarchy ceased to exist. While at the time of the episcopate of Archbishop Stojan the controversy over the Appointment of Vacant Canons took place especially with the newly established Czechoslovak state, which had forfeited the privileges of the Habsburg Monarchy. Stojan was able to appoint new Canons in 1923. His successor Leopold Precan also had to deal with the issue of vacant Canons as well as the question of the approval of the new statutes of the Olomouc metropolitan chapter, which would be in accordance with the new Code of Canon Law. While the appointment of the vacant canons was achieved in 1933 and 1938, the approval of the recalculated chapter statutes was not achieved until the end of his episcopate. Precan’s successor, Archbishop Matocha, also called for the chapter to present revised statutes, but due to the emergence of the Communist totalitarian system in Czechoslovakia, it was not the appropriate time to approve the statutes. The capital statutes of 1826 thus applied until 1994, when new statutes were approved by Archbishop Jan Graubner, which were modified to be in accordance with the Code of Canon Law.

Modification of the Statutes of the Metropolitan Chapter of Olomouc and the Appointment of the Vacant Canons in Connection with the Issue of the 1917 Code of Canon Law

During the episcopate of Archbishop Stojan the Czechoslovak government very strongly interfered in the resolution of the so-called question of the Olomouc Chapter. Afterwards the issue was perceived primarily as an internal affair of the Church, and negotiations took place between the Archbishop of Olomouc together with the Chapter and the Holy See. The Chapter could not ignore the provisions of the new Code of Ca­non Law, but did not want to renounce its existing privileges, also because the canons “had sworn by the old statutes”. On the other hand, the number of vacant canonical posts had increased and Precan, the archbishop of Olomous, managed to effect the ap­pointment of new canons according to the provisions of the Code. The State did not in­fluence those appointment. The nationality of the Chapter members was an important issue. The issue of new statutes for the Chapter remained unsolved. The requirement of the Holy See from 1923 to review the Statutes in accordance with the new Code was not fulfilled even in the next 70 years. The Chapter, in colaboration with the Arch­bi­shop, drafted revised statutes in 1933, but ultimately they were not approved. Also, Archbishop Josef Karel Matocha called the Chapter to submit new statutes for appro­val after World War II, but yetagain the Chapter argued that the time was “in­oppor­tu­ne”. The onset of the Communist regime in 1948 made the situation so difficult that the Olo­mouc Chapter did not have its new approved Statutes until 1994.

The relevance of academic research in OSCM practice

ABSTRACTThe authors examine the relevance of academic research for operations and supply chain management (OSCM) professionals. Members of a major metropolitan APICS chapter were surveyed. Consistent with prior research, findings indicate that OSCM practitioners prefer trade journal articles to academic research. Nonetheless, respondents indicate interest in academic research; respondents engaged in consulting indicated the most interest. Further, findings suggest a mismatch exists between topics of interest to practitioners and the more prevalent academic research topics.

From the Frankish Empire to Prague: Evangeliary Cim 2 in the Library of the Prague Metropolitan Chapter

The late-Carolingian Evangeliary Cim 2 (in the library of the Prague Metropolitan Chapter) was created around 875 in one of the monastic scriptoria in northern France - рrоbаbу the Аbbеy of St. Vaast. It may have served as а devotional gift from а member of the Frankish ruling dynasty to the Saxon аbbеу of Corvey. Perhaps as а votive offering from Duchess Emma, it seems to have been deposited in the Treasury of St. Vitus Cathedral as early as the tenth century. It is certain, however, that in the fourteenth century, Evangeliary Cim 2 was one of the most important and certainly most valued codices in the cathedral library. After the Hussite Wars, its importance and quality were explicitly appreciated bу the canons of St. Vitus Cathedral, who, in the second half of the fifteenth century, had its cover repaired.

Związki klarysek gnieźnieńskich z duchowieństwem katedry gnieźnieńskiej w pierwszej połowie XV wieku

The article presents three types of connections between the Poor Clares nuns in Gniezno with the clergy of the Gniezno cathedral: cooperation of the abbess and the whole congregation of nuns with the procurators of the convent usually chosen by the nuns from among the lower and higher (chapter) clergy of the cathedral; family connections between the nuns and the canons of the metropolitan chapter (the sisters of canons Jaroslaw Kąkolewski and Piotr Pniewski, respectively Elzbieta and Jadwiga were Poor Clares nuns in the Gniezno convent) and disputes over assets between the convent and the parsons of St. Peter's church in the outskirts of Gniezno as well as the preposite of the collegiate of St. George in Gniezno. The author stresses the Poor Clares' family connections with wealthy landed gentry of Greater Poland. In conclusion of the article she draws attention to the fact that the Poor Clares nuns of Gniezno owned individual property, which was a violation of the rule of the Order of Saint Clare.

Regesta Bohemiae et Moraviae aetatis Venceslai IV (1378 dec.–1419 aug. 16.), Tomus VII Fontes Archivi terrae Moraviae Brunae , and: Řeholní kanovníci sv. Augustina v Lanškrouně. Dějiny a diplomatář kláštera / The Canons Regular of St Augustine in Lanškroun: History and Diplomatarium of the Monastery (review)

Reviewed by: Regesta Bohemiae et Moraviae aetatis Venceslai IV (1378 dec.–1419 aug. 16.), Tomus VII Fontes Archivi terrae Moraviae Brunae, and: Řeholní kanovníci sv. Augustina v Lanškrouně. Dějiny a diplomatář kláštera / The Canons Regular of St Augustine in Lanškroun: History and Diplomatarium of the Monastery Robert Curry Krafl, Pavel, ed., Regesta Bohemiae et Moraviae aetatis Venceslai IV (1378 dec.–1419 aug. 16.), Tomus VII Fontes Archivi terrae Moraviae Brunae, Prague, Institutum historicum Academiae scientiarum Rei publicae Bohemicae, 2010; cloth; pp. 495; ISBN 9788072861729. Krafl, Pavel, Petra Mutlová, and Dana Stehlíková, eds, Řeholní kanovníci sv. Augustina v Lanškrouně. Dějiny a diplomatář kláštera / The Canons Regular of St Augustine in Lanškroun: History and Diplomatarium of the Monastery (Opera Instituti historici Pragae, B/7), Prague, Historický ústav, 2010; cloth; pp. 399; 16 b/w illustrations, 38 colour plates; ISBN 9788072861767. ‘A useless, dilatory, ill-esteemed dissolver and unworthy disposer of the Holy Roman Empire’ – the verdict of history has been damning on Václav IV (Wenceslaus) and his reign, the period covered by these two handsome volumes. But no matter how tumultuous the world outside, the work of notaries employed in the great bureaucracies of church and state rarely slackened; quite the contrary. Putting in order and making available the wealth of archival documents that survive from the four decades of Václav’s reign has kept Czech scholars busy for more years than the documents themselves cover. Through most of the past century the history of the Czech Church and its institutions has not been a particularly lively area of research (the Hussite revolution excepted), unlike that of Poland and Hungary, countries whose history, religious history especially, was closely intertwined with that of Bohemia–Moravia. Scholars of Czech ecclesiastical history had to rely largely on information gleaned from monumental registers of archival documents pertaining to diplomatic history, undertakings commenced in the mid-nineteenth century: the Codex diplomaticus et epistolaris Regni Bohemie, the Codex diplomaticus et epistolaris Moraviae, and the Regesta diplomatica nec non epistolaria Bohemiae et Moraviae (RBM). The RBM commenced in 1855; by 1892 it had produced four volumes covering the period 600–1346. Thereafter the pace slowed. Two fascicles of Volume VI (1355–57) appeared in the late 1920s while the remaining ten fascicles of Volumes V–VII, covering less than two decades (1346–63) of the reign of Václav’s father, Charles IV, appeared at irregular intervals from 1958 to 2004. For the period 1378–1419, Václav IV’s reign, the RBM adopted a different taxonomy (and modified title): Regesta Bohemiae et Moraviae aetatis Venceslai IV (1378 dec.–1419 aug. 16). The RBMV assigns a volume to each archival institution or to a group of archives all of a similar type; within [End Page 227] each volume entries are ordered chronologically. To date, volumes have been devoted to the archives of the Prague Metropolitan Chapter (seven fascicles, published 1967–81), to the Vyšehrad Collegiate Chapter (1969), to the State Regional Archive in Třeboň (1977), to the Provincial Archive in Opava comprising the Olomouc bishopric and cathedral chapter (1989), and to the National Archives (2006–07). The volume to hand, the seventh in the series (hereafter RBMV-7), is devoted to material from the Moravian Archive in Brno. As the editor Pavel Krafl makes clear, only instruments and letters extant as original and medieval copies are included; similarly, only documents pertaining directly to matters concerned with Czech history and affairs are gathered into RBMV-7. The Moravian Archive yields 701 instruments and letters from a total of thirty-nine funds and collections. In view of the above tight restrictions on what can be included, all the more valuable are the summary outlines of the character of each fund and collection, and the location of repositories of material which falls outside the criteria for inclusion. RBMV-7 is equipped with a preface in Czech and an extended version in English together with an invaluable ten-page bibliography. The register itself maintains the high standard in diplomatics seen in Krafl’s earlier volume on the synods and statutes of the diocese of Olomouc. Heading each entry...

The Educational Crisis in the United States

Dr. Donald A. Doyle, who was a charter member of the SCSS, first President of the SCSS New York Metropolitan Chapter, and former school administrator and political science professor, wrote this personal assessment about current American education in light of the teaching of the Church before his death in 2005. The CSSR proudly presents it here as his last published writing. The Church is first and foremost a teacher. Consequently her views on education have been important and influential throughout history. Indeed, the Magisterium or official teaching authority of the Church has anticipated the educational crisis that is widespread in America today. The Church has always defined education as the multifaceted development of individuals, spiritually, morally, aesthetically, physically, psychologically and intellectually. The Church distinguishes between the affective and the cognitive domain in education. In addition, she recognizes that there are many agencies of education in society such as the Church herself, the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, sports programs, organizations, social groups, after school clubs and the family. Contemporary secular thinking is at variance with this view. Dr. Robert Hutchins, the famed President of the University of Chicago, referred to the educationist notion that the school should teach the whole child as the most meaningless, anti-intellectual concept in educational discussion. The view that the school is the primary educational agency in society is one major reason why the public schools over the last several decades have expanded their responsibilities into so many nonacademic areas. The Church looks on the school as one of many agencies in society, but one that must always be a complement to and never in opposition to the primary educational agency, i.e., the family—with parents having the final say in the role of their education of their children. This brings us to the role of the state in the educational activity. The modern educator would clearly give primary responsibility for the education of youth to the state, whereas the Church maintains that the parents have this fundamental natural right. From the Catholic position, the state’s task is to protect and defend this natural right or, as the Declaration on Christian Education from the Second Vatican

Seattle Metropolitan Chapter

INSIGHTVolume 7, Issue 2 p. 42-42 News from Chapter Seattle Metropolitan Chapter Joseph Simpson, Joseph Simpson jjs-sbw@eskimo.com Search for more papers by this author Joseph Simpson, Joseph Simpson jjs-sbw@eskimo.com Search for more papers by this author First published: 23 June 2015 https://doi.org/10.1002/inst.20047242aAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume7, Issue2July 2004Pages 42-42 RelatedInformation

Seattle Metropolitan Chapter (SMC)

INSIGHTVolume 2, Issue 1 p. 26-26 News from Chapters Seattle Metropolitan Chapter (SMC) Joe Simpson, Joe Simpson President Joseph.Simpson@PSS.Boeing.com Search for more papers by this author Joe Simpson, Joe Simpson President Joseph.Simpson@PSS.Boeing.com Search for more papers by this author First published: 23 June 2015 https://doi.org/10.1002/inst.19992126Citations: 1AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article.Citing Literature Volume2, Issue1Spring 1999Pages 26-26 RelatedInformation

The Social Landscape of the Prague Sacramentary: The Prosopography of an Eighth-Century Mass-Book

The Prague Sacramentary is the only complete example of this important early-medieval liturgical book to survive from eighth-century Bavaria. But, as the name implies, its present home is in the Czech Republic. The manuscript (Praha, Knihovna Metropolitní Kapituli, O. LXXXIII) was acquired in 1776 for the old metropolitan chapter library in Prague from a Czech private library, and nothing certain is known about its earlier location. That volume contains three works: the Sacramentary itself (fols. 1–120) together with an abridged lectionary (121–30), to which an incomplete penitential (131–45) in a different hand was added at an early date, almost certainly before autumn, 792. The page size is 247 × 165 mm (9.75 × 6.5 inches), and the gatherings of the volume vary between three and five sheets with four sheets predominating. The first 84 folios are written in a single column of 21 lines across the entire page, but folios 85–120 are written in two columns also of 21 lines each with marginal bounding lines drawn in an arrangement that is characteristic of Bavarianscriptoriain the Carolingian period. Four folios are now missing from the Sacramentary, three from the lectionary, and two from the penitential.

Źródła do dziejów Wawelu

Artykuł omawia niektóre źródła do dziejów Wawelu m.in. z archiwum Kapituły Metropolitalnej.

Information systems security association New York metropolitan chapter's fourth annual security conference and exposition

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The scope of practice of diabetes educators in a metropolitan area.

A survey of 108 members of a local metropolitan AADE chapter was conducted to assess (1) current roles and responsibilities of diabetes educators with respect to medical management and patient education, and (2) the use of behavioral strategy techniques among diabetes educators. Nurses and dietitians specializing in diabetes care performed a range of responsibilities. Approximately 75% of the nurses performed standard patient education roles and 20% performed the majority of roles traditionally considered to be in the medical domain, including insulin adjustment. More than half of the respondents had not received formal training in the use of behavioral strategies. Formal training was positively associated with greater use of behavioral techniques. Training for diabetes educators should include behavioral intervention strategies. Nurses specializing in diabetes care may also need training regarding physical assessment for chronic complications, and knowledge regarding adjustment of insulin and oral hypoglycemic medications.

Experiments on temporal aspects of keyboard entry : Sternberg, S., Knoll, R.L., and Wright, C.E. In: Proceedings of a Symposium sponsored by the Metropolitan Chapter of the Human Factors Society, ‘Getting it Together: Research and Application in Human Factors’, Hoboken, New Jersey, 17 November 1977, 22 pp

Experiments on temporal aspects of keyboard entry : Sternberg, S., Knoll, R.L., and Wright, C.E. In: Proceedings of a Symposium sponsored by the Metropolitan Chapter of the Human Factors Society, ‘Getting it Together: Research and Application in Human Factors’, Hoboken, New Jersey, 17 November 1977, 22 pp

Human factors and new business telephone systems : Klemmer, E.T. In: Proceedings of a Symposium sponsored by the Metropolitan Chapter of the Human Factors Society, ‘Getting it Together: Research and Application in Human Factors’, Hoboken, New Jersey, 17 November 1977, 6 pp

Human factors and new business telephone systems : Klemmer, E.T. In: Proceedings of a Symposium sponsored by the Metropolitan Chapter of the Human Factors Society, ‘Getting it Together: Research and Application in Human Factors’, Hoboken, New Jersey, 17 November 1977, 6 pp