B. Gál Edit – Veres Gábor szerk.: Agria 47. (Az Egri Múzeum Évkönyve - Annales Musei Agriensis, 2011)

Kriston Vízi József: Mindennapi és csudás élővilág Esterházy Pál nádor XVII. századi verseiben

3. kép. Esterházy Pál gróf. B. Block osztrák művész olajfestménye, 1660 körül. Déri Múzeum, Debrecen József Kriston Vizi Everyday and marvelous wildlife in Palatine Pál Esterházy's 17

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h century poems Prince Pál Esterházy (1635-1713) was a well-educated and cultured Hungarian nobleman. Besides his generalship he liked and was in favor of various arts almost until his death. Around 1670 he put down in writing the poems written probably by himself in the style of the Hungarian versification and language of the time. Besides religious and love poems he tried his hand at the that time fashionable, socalled "catalog poems" as well. This lyrical genre summarized everyday and exotic flora and fauna and natural phenomena of the known world, very detailed. The author of the paper began to study these poems in manuscript. Out of thirteen longer poems now two are presented below, showing birds and animals eternalized 395