Gergely Pál: Pápai Páriz-album a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Könyvtárában (A MTAK kiadványai 21. Budapest, 1961)

In 1722 János K a n s a y and István Kócei Csergő, in 1726 Samu Cseh and András N á n á s y, students of theology in London, wrote commemorative lines in Latin, Greek, and other languages. Some of the students even entered biblical quotations in Hebrew. Dated similarly from London, the two entries by the physician István E n y e d i and the theologian Ferenc V. Bab a, at the end of the small album, are very interesting. They are: "Nulla tarn modesta felicitas est, quae malignitatis dentes evitare possit", moreover, the well-known biblical quotation: "Beati misericordes, quia illi misericordiam consequentur". We must, however, stress the two most valuable pages of the volume with Newton's and Halley's lines and signatures. On page 109 the following classical words of Isaac Newton may be road: "Numero, pondere et mensura Deus omnia condidit. D"" Possessori plurimum colendo hanc Tesseram suam posuit: Isaacus Newton Londini II"

1" Sept. 1722". On page 237 there are also Latin lines, written by Edmund Hal ley: "Omne solum forti patria est. Nobilissimo D

n" Possessori fausta et felicia omnia procatus hoc in memóriám sui scripsit: Edm. Halley Geometriae professor. Oxon., April 30, 1726". Of the other thirty-eight foreign persons who hail written in the album we shall mention only the few names known from the literature: Daniel Jablonsky (1660—1741), Vice-President of the Academy of Berlin, Chaplain of the Royal Couri

, a famous art collector, and a friend of Leibnitz: two renowned Dutch scholars of Amsterdam: F. Ruyschius (1638—1731), botanist and physician, a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Institut de France; J. E n t h, the Royal Archivist, whose two elegant lines in Latin read: "Momentaneum est quod delectat, Aeternum quod cruciat". Pápai Páriz was at Halle in 1714. Here M. Alberti and B. Albin u s, professors of theology made entries into the album. The entries of London begin with 1716 with the lines of the pastor S. A n d e i s c h, then those of the professors of theology C o c c h i u s and S c h o 1 t z. That same year Pápai Páriz went to Oxford, as testified, beside F. W h i t o's lines, also by those of Halley we have cited. He visited the world-famous Bodleian Library, where the librarians H u d t o n and Bowles entered commemorative lines. In 1718 he revisited Oxford, namely George Bristol, Dean of the University, then from here ho went over to Canterbury to pay his respects to the Primate of All England. G. Eborum, too, wrote in the album. In 1719 he studied in Frankfurt-an-der-Oder for several months where, beside the Latin and Greek lines written by the famous professor O. V i t r i n g a (1659—1751) and R. A n d a 1 a (1665—1727), he also received an Arab proverb as a souvenir from A. Schulteng (1659-—1734). In Leyden professor J. Fr. Osterwald, the famous natural philosopher and professor Rouveroy wrote longer entries in the book. Next, our Hungarian doctor was favoured by R. A e m i 1 i u s with Greek lines and by professor S b o e f f with Hebrew ones. One of the Fabritius' entered Latin and Greek texts in the volume. Several of the famous professors of Bern, Geneva, and Basel, such as M a 1 a c r i d a, Turretinus, Wetstenius, and Paravicinus also wrote in the album. In 1724 he was in Bremen, calling on professors Maastricht, Haaseus, etc. In 1725 be was again at Frankfurt, Leyden, and Regensburg, finally in 1726 at Cambridge, where John C o v e 1, the seventy-nine-year-old Dean of the University bade him farewell with Greek and Latin commemorative lines, as the Hungarian doctor started for home (page 476). The album, including a number of valuable data for the history of culture, furnishes first-rate source-material especially for the elaboration of the biographies of the Hungarians, priests, professors, and doctors, who at that time travelled in Western Europe and studied and lectured at the universities there. 9