Deák Antal András: A Duna fölfedezése

Tartalom - III.A DANUBIUS PANNONICO-MYSICUS, 1726

T II E DISCOVERY OF THE DANUBE and longitudinal measurements based on astronomical observations, b) The paths of the bigger rivers, such as the path of Unna from Novi to Mitrovitz; the path of Tisza from its mouth to Szeged; Maros to Deva - with their natural turning. The drawer of the map used a compass by the surveying of the landscape. The more significant rivers and lakes were noted in green, the smaller ones in brown ink, the swamps were depicted in brownish green, and the mountains were done in blue-grey. The Earth Grid that was done with a pen is visible here and there. The distance was given in hours. The name of the cartographer is missing. Based on the style and the content as mentioned above, we can safely conclude that it was Muller who prepared the map.

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8 2. The states of the Hungarian Kingdom

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9 In the foreword of his never-edited work, Marsigli promised a description of the history of Hungary in a narrower sense (Hungaria vera

) as well as of Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia, Slavonia, Hercegovina, Moldva, Wallachia, Transylvania, the Temes Banat and Bulgaria. Since his knowledge of the territory, the surveys carried out in the border zone and the maps based on the surveys and drawn by Müller provided a first rate opportunity, he inserted the maps of the relevant countries in front of the manuscript ready for printing. The ten finely coloured maps, each measuring 52x72 cm - with the exception of Hungary's map, which had not yet been completed

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0 — awaited only an engraver in 1703. Marsigli, however, did not find ten maps sufficient. He thought that a summary sheet was also necessary to provide an overview of these countries and principalities, and thought it necessary to prepare a map of Hungary that would illustrate the conditions described by Bonfini.

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1 He issued instructions for the cartographer on the front page of the manuscript volume saying that the map of Slavonia should be drawn up using the information he had acquired when the frontiers were being established, and based on the sketches concerning the Sava and Drava rivers. Finally, the genealogy of the Croatian families who were converted from Christianity to Islam should be added, even if the list was not complete. These notes suggest that although the manuscript seems to have been closed, the book was not really completed. Müller wrote about the circumstances of its development in his letters, now kept in Bologna

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2. We shall speak about the role that Paulus Ritter from Croatia and an unknown maker of coats of arms played in the history of the book in the chapter dealing with the persons who assisted Marsigli. 3. The map of Croatia

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3 This richly coloured map lacks legends, is very important from a cartographic point of view. We do not know, however, who drew it, when it was drawn and for whom. According to the Italian entry in the Bologna catalogue, IMAGE No. 14 on page 32: Croaria at the end of the 17

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h centure IMAGE No. 15 on page 33: The map ofVlachland, 1703 108 -phe measurements of the sheets are: 70 x 155,5 cm; 75,2 x 163 cm. 10

9 BUB Mss di Marsigli Vol. 28. The original title of the sheets prepared for printing is: "Monarchia Hungarica in sua regna principatus ct ducatus divisa..." Monarchy here refers to the kingdom. The measurements of the sheets are 52 x 72 cm (inner measurements: 43 x 60 cm). 11

0 The map of Hungary is missing: Müller mentioned in one of his letters written to Marsigli in 1703 that he had half finished it (BUB Mss di Marsigli Vol. II. letter B. 63. p. 164. Nürnberg, May 12, 1703), still he probably drew the complete map of Hungary only in 1706 on the order of the Hungarian nobility. It was edited in 1709 and became a model for the cartographic depiction of the country in European cartography. 11

1 Bonfini (born in Ancona around 1434 - died in Buda in 1503) was King Matthias's royal historiographer in Buda from 1486. He wrote the history of Hungary from the Huns to his time under the title Rerum Hungaricarum Decades (1495). 11

2 BUB Mss di Marsigli Vol. 82. pp. 174-177. Joh. Chr. Müller; Nürnberg, April 17, 1703. 11

3 BUB Mss di Marsigli Rotolo No. 23. Measurements: 104.5 x 92.5 cm (inner), 108 x 97 cm (outer) 113