A Miskolci Herman Ottó Múzeum Közleményei 12. (Miskolc, 1973)

no 3THHKVMC 3aKapnaTciaix yKpaiíHues, JKHByiHHX Ha TeppHTOpHH HCTOpH'ieCKoro KOMHTaxa 3eMnjiHHa — M. Hop6a AaeT cyMMHpoBaHHe IOK H o >KypHajie „JJaHHbie K HCTOpHH KOMHTaTa 3eMnjiHHa". CjionaHKan KOJIJICKUHH Ha STOT pa3 noKa3biBaeT BaxcHbie >KypHajibi, nepnojiHKH (Slovensky národopis, Cesky lid, Ludová kultúra v Karpatoch, Ceskoslovenskä Vlastiveda n. t. n.), OKeroffHHKH My3eeB K3K H caMocTOii'xeJiwibie TOMbi. COMMUNICATIONS OF THE HERMAN OTTÓ MUSEUM, MISKOLC CONTENTS Our present volum in the costumary way contains archeological, historical, ethnographical essays concerning the territory of county Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén of North-Hungary. Our closing section is given the title Slovakian Collection, in which we introduce you to the latest accomplishments of the Slovakian ethnography and historical science. The two first articles of the volume take their conception in the sign of a jubilee each. In connection with the 150th anniversary of the Miskolc National Theatre M. Cenner presents the analyses of the Hungarian dramas performed on this stage. Ferenc Szilágyi remembers the visits of Csokonai (the greatest Hungarian poet of the age of enlightment) to county Borsod and Hegyalja, on the 200th anniversary of the poet's birth. As to the archeological publications, among them you find that of V. T. Dobosi explicating the connection between tov/n Miskolc and the Hungarian research work on paleolothicum; and L. Tóth publishes the material of the Sajóbábony (county Borsod) mezolith-stratum. J. Gádor introduces the memorial finds of the church and cemetery unearthed in Csebi-dűlő (baulk) in the surroundings of townlet Edelény. On the history of the small museum of Ózd, brought to an end, and on the archeological material of it M. Hellerbrandt gives you a publication. In the 12th volume of the Annual of the Herman Ottó Museum you could find two dissertations on the archeological research works carried on in Csapástető-cave in the surroundings of Szinpetri, now these get amplified with the introducing work on vertebrata finds of the cave written by L. Kordos jr. We give you four treatises connected with some questions or others on the history of North-Hungary's territory. Gy. Dénes writes about the Baksa-bridge which can be traced back as long as to the Middle Ages (in the surroundings of Teresztenye, county Borsod), T. Joó's work deals with architectural history of Füzérradvány castle of the counts of Károlyi. In his dissertation entitled „Places where cinders can be found and places for working up iron in the valley of the rivulet Bán" L. Dobosy presents data based on local knowledge to ironmilling at Ózd and its ouskirts. A. Saád describes in his essay „Mezőkövesd before the Liberation" the economical and cultural life of it in the 1930's. In the section of ethnography I. Balassa in his work „XVIII—XIX century horse-driven mills in Hegyalja and Bodrogköz" comments upon an area of foodprocessing in this region. J. Bencsik expresses his opinion on popular architecture in South-Borsod in his writing entitled „The 'Irigyli' vineyard". G. Nagy makes known the underground dens for granary purposes of the Karcsa peasant people. On our territory there used to be an important kind of domestic industry the growing of hemp and manufacturing houselinen as well. One of the centres of linen-drapers' was Mezőkövesd in county Borsod, the historical relics of which were searched and are shown by I. Dobrossy. Exciting figures in the life of the common people have always been midwives, fortuneteller women, and necromancer women. The superstitious beliefs in necromancers are especially existing even in our days among women, this theme is introduced in G. Barno's dissertation. On the teritory of the historical county Zemplén there lived in small ethnical groups the people of the Carpathian Ukraine, Cs. Csorba gives a summary of the