Ihász István - Pintér János szerk.: Történeti Muzeológiai Szemle: A Magyar Múzeumi Történész Társulat Évkönyve 6. (Budapest, 2006)

Tanulmányok - Peterdi Vera: Tárgyak nyomában II. A gömöri tornallyai Tornallyay család története, 19-20. századi élet-és lakáskörülményei

TÖKÖLY Gábor 2003. Kastélyok, kúriák, udvarháza Gömörben I-II. Somorja. Visszapillantás a Budapesti Nemzetközi Vásár két évtizedes múltjára [1906-1926] 1926. Összeáll.: Hollósy István. Bp. VOIT Pál é. n. Régi magyar otthonok. Bp. VOIT Pál 1993. Régi magyar otthonok. Bp. (reprint, bővített). Forrásmunkák FEHÉR VARY István 1935. Vándorlások sajóvölgyi magyar falvakon keresztül. Tornaija, Gömör, 1935. szeptember 15. 4. p. két gépelt lap. TORNALLYAY (II.) Zoltán 1940. Családi feljegyzések gyermekeim számára. 15 gépelt lap. TORNALLYAY (II.) Zoltán é. n. Adatok tornaijai lakóházunkhoz. 2 gépelt lap eredeti sajátkezű aláírással. TORNALLYAY (II.) Zoltán é. n. Följegyzések tornaijai lakóházunkról. 1 gépelt lap eredeti sajátkezű aláírással. On the Scent of Objects II. The Tornallyay Family's Few Pieces of Furniture in the HNM's collection Vera Peterdi Two sets of furniture, representing two different eras but coming from one and the same household, were purchased, which opened up new vistas for processing the history and lifestyle of a family from the lesser nobility living in Upper Hungary (in the onetime GömörKishont County). The objects provided the basic source for the present study which starts in the present and based on a social-historical, museological research. The Tornallyay family, that traces its history back to 1130, and, which according to tradition, settled down in the area at the time of the Hungarian Conquest, was named after a settlement called Tornaija, located around the middle reaches of the river Sajó, in the northern part of historic Hungary. The history of this long-lived family is relatively well reconstructed due to the survived archival material, which had already been processed with various approaches, and other historical and family sources as well as oral traditions. The members of the benficiary noble Tornallyay family held offices on the national level in the 16

th century - at this time Wladislas II renewed their coat of arms -, and later they occupied leading positions on county level (esp. as prelates). Adopting the lifestyle of the typical lesser nobility, the family that was among the first to become adherents of the Calvinist faith, and which proved to be more viable, open, educated and socially sensitive than usual, remained on its land of birth until the restructuring of the national issue in 1947, when fleeing from resettlement, moved to the mother country. One of the sets of furniture comes from their Tornaija mansion, which from its original Baroque style was redesigned into one built in the style of Classicism in the second half of the 19

th century, when the building was enlarged, and the famous landscape garden was added in the life of Márton Tornallyay (III) and Katalin Sturmann. The four items of seating (2 armchairs, 1 settee, 1 foot-rest) was made in the neo Rococo style of mid-19

th century Hungary, that is, the originally French 2nd Rococo (Louis Philip style), and belonged to the