Borsodi Levéltári Évkönyv 3. (Miskolc, 1980)
Angol nyelvű
ABSTRACTS FROM THE THIRD VOLUME OF THE BORSOD ARCHIVAL ANNUAL CALENDARS FROM SÁROSPATAK IN THE 18TH AND 19TH CENTURIES Béla Takács The first press set up in 1650 worked for 21 years only and during this time two calendars were printed to the best of our knowledge. The two calendars were published by the second master of the press, János Rozsnyai, for the years 1660 and 1663. The officer, József Szentes, established the second press in Sárospatak in 1807. The workshop got into the possession of the college in 1817. In 1827 the inspector of the printing office publishing mostly text-books made a proposal of publishing calendars as well and the directorate of the college made up a committee to work out a plan for the contents of the calendars to be published. For the editing of calendars the committee proposed those published by Lichtenberg in Göttingen to be taken as a model. In the light of the aspects given for the compilation, the first volume of the „National Calendar of Sárospatak” came out by the year 1829. Up to 1843 fifteen volumes had appeared, but then as a consequence of the keen competition these calendars were ousted from the market. In the year 1844 the press in Sárospatak did not publish its calendar. In 1852 a new volume of the „Calendar of Patak” came out. The editors tried to stuff everything in the thin booklets which they considered to be useful to the readers. The calendar had been able to hold its ground only for five years, it ceased to be published in 1858 again. János Antalfi, a professor at College of Sárospatak tried to keep the matter of publishing calendars before the public eye. From the college he acquired the title to compile the calendar and in 1859 he published the „Popular Calendar of Sárospatak” at his own costs under the reservation that the net proceeds should be spent on the building up of the gymnasium at the college. János Antalfi had been compiling calendars for four years and that excellently, but again no calendar was published in 1863. In 1906 the „Circle for Literature” in Sárospatak published a substantial and long calendar, but this undertaking also ended in failure after a year. No calendars of any kind have been published since 1906 except the pocket diaries made by the college-printer Lajos Csehi in the late forties. During its operation the college press in Sárospatak endeavoured to disseminate general culture through publishing text-books first of all and consequently they considered publishing calendars to be of secondary importance. 19 Levéltári Évkönyv III. 289
