Selected names from the University of Kraków's Roll of Students

by Genny Grim
known in the SCA as Constanza of Thamesreach

© 2013 Genny Grim; all rights reserved
last updated 02Dec13

The following male given names are taken from an in-progress publication of the Roll of Students from the University of Kraków (now known as Jagiellonian University). Volume 1 contains the text of Bibliotheca Jagellonica codex 258 (1400-1508), and volume 2 the text of codex 259 (1509-1551).

The rolls are in Latin, and each entry is laid out in a standard form:

given name, patronym, place of origin, total fees paid.

The place of origin is usually listed in an inflected form, but the form de X can also be seen.

Because of the standard format of entries, bynames cannot be inferred. However, the entries could very easily be used to provide inflected placenames to accompany documented byname patterns.

As there are over 5,000 entries in each volume, it would be impossible for me to index all the names contained within. However, the compilers of these editions have very helpfully extracted the names which occur most frequently in each volume; I have listed them here. I've also listed a selection of some of the more unusual names from each volume.

Most common names 1400-1508:

  1. Johannes
  2. Nicolaus
  3. Stanislaus
  4. Petrus
  5. Andreas
  6. Mathias
  7. Jacobus
  8. Martinus
  9. Georgius
  10. Paulus
  11. Michael
  12. Albertus
  13. Gregorius
  14. Thomas
  15. Laurencius
  16. Bartholomeus
  17. Stephanus
  18. Caspar
  19. Simon
  20. Valentinus
  21. Clemens
  22. Franciscus
  23. Benedictus
  24. Venceslaus
  25. Jeronimus
  26. Lucas
  27. Matheus
  28. Blasius
  29. Antonius
  30. Ladislaus
  31. Henricus

Rare names 1400-1508

  1. Boxa
  2. Brik
  3. Calixtus
  4. Cherubin
  5. Daczibogius
  6. Ebelingus
  7. Gavyn
  8. Hannuthka
  9. Harlip
  10. Marcolphus
  11. Marquardus
  12. Peterpaul (this student was from Rome, but the name is too good not to include!)
  13. Predilectus
  14. Rumpertus
  15. Sandziwogius

Most common names 1509-1551

  1. Joannes/Johannes
  2. Stanislaus
  3. Nicolaus
  4. Mathias
  5. Jacobus
  6. Andreas
  7. Martinus
  8. Albertus
  9. Petrus
  10. Georgius
  11. Paulus
  12. Valentinus
  13. Laurencius
  14. Bartholomeus
  15. Simon
  16. Michael
  17. Franciscus
  18. Gregorius
  19. Thomas
  20. Felix
  21. Caspar/Gaspar
  22. Adam
  23. Sebastianus
  24. Christoferus
  25. Stephanus
  26. Jeronimus
  27. Lucas
  28. Matheus
  29. Venceslaus
  30. Benedictus
  31. Baltasar

Rare names 1509-1551

  1. Amandus
  2. Aristotiles
  3. Beda
  4. Damascenus
  5. Ermolaus
  6. Lampertus
  7. Onofreius
  8. Pancracius
  9. Primus
  10. Seraphin
  11. Vespasianus
  12. Victorinus
  13. Volffgandus
  14. Wrolicus
  15. Zachevs

Sources

Metryka Uniwersytetu Krakowskiego z lat 1400-1508: Biblioteka Jagielloń ska, rkp. 258, wydali: Antoni Gąsiorowski, Tomasz Jurek, Izabela Skierska; przy współpracy Ryszarda Grzesika. Kraków: Tow. Nauk. "Societas Vistulana", 2004.

Metryka czyli album Uniwersytetu Krakowskiego z lat 1509-1551 : Biblioteka Jagielloń ska, rkp. 259, wydali: Antoni Gąsiorowski, Tomasz Jurek, Izabela Skierska; przy współpracy Ryszarda Grzesika. Warszawa: Wydawn. Neriton, 2010.