Bariska István et al. (szerk.): Buda expugnata 1686. Europa et Hungaria 1684-1718. A török kiűzésének európai levéltári forrásai 2. (Budapest, 1986)
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SUMMARY The basic study Buda és Pest visszavívása 1686-ban (Reconquest of Buda and Pest in 1686) by Árpád Károlyi appeared 100 years ago. This was the first scholarly account which, using archival and library sources of the period, described the most important military action of the first set of liberation wars against the Turks (1683—1686), the reconquest of Buda. Already then, the need arose for the compilation and publication of sources referring to the entire period of liberation wars. On the occasion of the 250^ anniversary of the siege of Buda, in 1936, the library Fővárosi Könyvtár published a presentation by themes of the contemporary European literature and iconography of the years 1683- 1718. Yet, in spite of some encouraging early attempts, one had to wait for a comparable archival sources until today. To fill this gap, for the 300^’ anniversary of the reconquest of Buda, the Archives of the City of Budapest are publishing a presentation arranged by themes of the archival material, supported by international cooperation. The aim of this publication is the exploration and presentation of the sources regarding the liberation of Buda and Hungary kept in the archives of various European countries. Some libraries and museums also joined this project. The time period involved is between the siege of Vienna and the armistice agreement of Karlowitz (1683—1699). In some instances, however, the survey ends with the peace treaty of Pozharevac (1718) which resulted in the complete liberation of the territory of historical Hungary. It is the all-European character of the enterprise the gives special importance to the volume. Scholars from 18 countries participated in it. Out of the countries invited, only the Kingdom of Norway, the People’s Republic of Romania and the Turkish Republic did not respond. The material is arranged in the alphabetic order of the official name of the country of origin, for these modern states are the legal depositaries of the documents. The listing includes both documents found in archives, — in some cases manuscripts from libraries and museums, — and reproductions of plans, maps, engravings, paintings. The illustrations to the volume were selected by gleaning in this material of great source value. A specific set of instructions, a ’model’, had been sent out to each participant to prepare the manuscript, in order to make the presentation uniform. In ideal cases, this model served as a basis for the investigation and presentation of the sources. According to this, the first item is a historical introduction which describes, without details, the involvement 1271
