Origin of the work:
1624 – 1627
Editions:
1925 Stanislav Souček, Výtah K. B. Skrbenského z neznámého jinak dílu spisu “Amphitheatrum universitatis rerum”. In: Časopis Matice moravské 49, 1925, pp224-244
1969 Prague, J. A. Comenii Opera omnia, vol. 1, pp196-196
Contents:
The Amphitheatrum was intended to be the second, expanded version of the encyclopaedia. A total of 28 books were presumed. Of the planned text, only a part has survived, specifically excerpts from the second part of the seventh book, in a copy made by Kryštof Bernard Skrbenský in 1684.
For further study, see also:
Veškeré spisy J. A. Komenského, vol. 1, Brno 1914, p49
J. A. Comenii Opera omnia, vol. 1, Prague 1969, pp195-196
Jan Kumpera, Jan Amos Komenský, poutník na rozhraní věků. Prague & Ostrava 1992, p.202