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Jan Hus at the stake, colored woodcut from a Hussite prayer book, 1563.
The Kralice Bible was published in six volumes between 1579 and 1593. Produced by scholars of the Unitas Fratrum, this translation was based on the original languages and is considered the most significant landmark of 16th-century Czech literature, serving as the model for classical Czech.12