Szabadfalvi József: A megyaszói festett asztalosmunkák 1735-ből (Borsodi Kismonográfiák 9. Miskolc, 1980)

PAINTED JOINERIES IN MEGYASZÖ FROM 1735 (Summary) One of the precious collections of the Herman Ottó Museum in Miskolc is the painted furniture or more exactly the painted ceiling boards and the pulpit of the Megyaszó church (county Zemplén) from the 18th c. These pieces of fine workmanship and of ethnographic value are elaborated in this volume. The village Megyaszó in North-East Hungary was first mentioned in documents in the Middle Ages. The church must have been built in the 13th

—14th cc. After the Turkish-Tartarian army had ruined the village in 1599 the church was rebuilt in 1615, while the spire and the bell were added in 1702. The church was enlarged in 1901, the painted boards were removed and sent to the Miskolc Museum. There are 62 elaborately painted square-formed (86X87 cm) ceiling boards, 10 boards with semicircular ending (74X105 cm) from the gallery and a painted sounding board to be found in the Herman Ottó Museum. The pulpit and the sounding boards were made in 1704, while the ceiling boards and perhaps also the boards of the gallery were made in 1735. The painted furniture was slightly repaired and repainted on its original place in 1800. After the removal in 1901—1902 it was repaired and exhibited in the museum where it could be seen till the beginning of the 1950ies. It was throughly restaured between 1975 and 1979. The earlier coarse corrections have been removed uncovering thus the original painting. The date of the manufacturing and the name of the joiner are preserved in one of the boards (plate 1). „Atto Doi 1735 Die. 12. Februarii. Isten Segedelme Által Muntak ezen munkát Miskoltzi mester Emberek Asztalos Imre Asztalos István." (By God's help this work was done by masters from Miskolc Imre Asztalos István Asztalos). The two masters were either brothers or father and son. It is not unf requent that two masters undertook the joiner's work in a church. The name of the craft joinery, in Hungarian asztalos, is also the name of the masters making the painted furniture of the Megyaszó church: Asztalos (Joiner). It was generally excepted in Hungary to call painterjoiners Asztalos, and for sake of differentiation they added the name of the settlement they had come from. Szombatfalvi Asztalos András (1870). Zilahi Asztalos István (1713). Abonyi 53