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the tomb must also have had some "all'antica" elements.

23 Nevertheless, the Udalricus Budai's chalice with "pagan coins", though it has been believed to be lost, survived and returned - at least virtually - to Gyulafehérvár, as required by the testimony of its rescuer, Pál Bornemisza. Notes 1 Jelentések az O.Rég. és Embertani Társulat üléseiről (Reports From the Sessions of the National Association of Antiquities and Antropology). In. Archeológiai Értesítő (Archeological Studies) 1 (1891) / VI -- In 1877 and in 1878, the pupils of Imre Steindl were making drawings in the Nyitra treasury. The manuscripts of these drawings (the works of István Kiss and Lajos Zobel, with the signature of Steindl on two of them) are now in the Archiv of Plans of the National Office for Monument Protection, as a bequest by Győző Czigler. The information about them was kindly supplied by Terézia Kerny. 2 Pulszky, K.\ A magyar történeti ötvösműkiállítás lajstroma (A Catalogue to The Exhibition of Historical Hungarian Goldsmith's Works) I-V, Budapest 1884, Booklet 2, pp.79-80 /Go.

48/; Pulszky, K. - Radisics, J.: Az ötvösség remekei (Masterpieces of Goldsmith's Art) Budapest 1888, Vol.11, pp.43-44; Ezredéves Országos Kiállítás. A történeti főcsoport hivatalos katalógusa (National Millenial Exhibition. An Official Catalogue of the Historical Department), Budapest 1896, p. 117 (No. 1473); A Magyarországban készült régi egyházi kelyhek kiállításának leiró jegyzéke (A Detailed Catalogue of the Exhibitions of Old Ecclesiastical chalices Made in Hungary), National Hungarian Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest 1913, pp. 53-54 (No.189); Gerecze, P.: A műemlékek helyrajzi jegyzéke és irodalma (The Topography and Literature of Monuments) In. Magyarország műemlékei (Monuments in Hungary) Vol.11. Budapest, 1906 p.566. 3 Beke, L.\ Sodronyzománcos ötvösművek (Goldsmith's Works Decorated With Cloisonné). Budapest 1983 pp.112-114; Toranová, E.: Goldschmiedekunst in der Slowakei. Bratislava 1983, p.194.; the same author: Szlovákiai ötvösség a 16. és 17. században (Slovakian goldsmith's art in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries). In Ars Hungarica / 11 (1983) p.233. 4 ...Tertium calicem argenteum inauratum, ornatum numismatibus aureis... Hungarian National Archives, the archives of the Batthyányi family, P 1339, the archives of the Apponyi family, No.

68. (Béla Iványi's copy in the Documentary Department of the Art Historical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Science: A-I-24/414. (My attention was kindly directed to this document by Enikő D. Buzási.) 5 ...Item unus calix argenteus deauratus, cum aliquot numismatibus et patena... MOL, the Archives of the Hungarian Chamber, E 156. Urbaria et Conscriptiones, fasc. 77/17. (Extract: Urbaria et Conscriptiones. Booklet 6. Collected by Mrs. B. Baranyai and Mária Csernyánszky. Budapest 1981, pp. 156-157.) 6 MOL, the Archives of the Hungarian Chamber, E 21. Benignae resolutiones, July 1587, p. 156. 7 ... Calix argenteus cum patena, deauratus per totum, in partibus inferioribus et superioribus, scdecim aurea numismata, veterum gentelium Imperatorum, ligata in argenteum deauratum continens. ... Vienna, Hofkammerarchiv, Hoffinanz Ilungarn, rote No. 36. (The text referreing to the chalice is cited by Takáts, S.: Bornemisza Abstemius Pál. In. same author. Hangok a múltból (Voices From the Past). Budapest, without date, 32/66.) The Nyitra chalice is not decorated with 16 but with 18 (or, according to another source, 17 [Ilofman, J.: Poklád dómu nitrianskeho. In. Nitra. Dejiny a umenie nitrianskeho zámku.Trnava 1933, p. 140]) gold coins. It is possible that the word sedecim was a mistake (the text of the testimony was a copy), or that the chalice was given its present shape only after 1577 (the cup is new). I think that the present chalice is identical with those mentioned in the sources; otherwise, it would be too much of a chance that a Transylvanian chalice mentioned by Bornemisza disappeared from Nyitra, and replaced at the same time by a chalice of the same age, decorated with the same gold coins. I am now convinced that the Nyitra chalice is unique. However, I also have to admit that any further research is only possible if the original object and the documents in the archives of the Nyitra chapel are studied. 8 Szeredai, A.: Scries Antiquorum, et recentiorum Episcoporum Transilvaniae. Albae Carolinae 1790, pp. 203-210. - the newest study on his life (with reference): Borsa, G.: Bornemisza Pál