The noble and well-born lord, Leo of Rozmital, lord of Platten [Blatna] and Freyenberg [Fremperg], had proposed to undertake a knightly journey in the year as one counts from the birth of Christ one thousand four hundred and sixty-six [five]. ¹ Before St Katherine’s day ² he rode out of Prague with two and fifty horses and a supply wagon. He had with him as honourable attendants ³ Jan Scrobitz Kollattbratt [Zehrowsky Kolovrat], banneret, Lord Buyan [Burian] von Schwanburck, banneret, Achatz Frodner, a nobleman, Petipesky, a nobleman, Mirnyss [Miros], a nobleman, Pollack, a nobleman, Knysto, a nobleman, Indersyz, a nobleman, and three noble pages, among them a banneret’s son ⁴ and other well-selected and honourable servants. He reached Gräfenberg on the eve of St Barbara ⁵ and asked me to ride with him to Nuremberg.