Notitia hungáriae novae historico geographica (Budapest, 2012)
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16 PREFACE We would be profoundly happy and find it beneficial if new translations (in Hungarian and other languages) were made based on the critical edition of the county descriptions. Henceforth the original text will be accessible, therefore translation of only excerpts is also justifiable, although its modus operandi should be thouroughly planned. Generally speaking the translation of Notitia - either whole or excerpted - shall be carried out respecting unified principles and methods. Acknowledgements At the end of our introduction I would like to thank on behalf of my colleagues and myself those who have helped in our work. I would like to name and thank the collaborators at the Primatical Library of Esztergom, the director Mr. Béla Czékli and also Katalin Mechler, Mrs. Zsolt Török (b. Judit Dobó), Péter Balogh, Eszter Kotz and Mónika Kulcsár, who were always kind and quickly satisfied our demands of searching for manuscripts or scanning documents. We are grateful to the staff of the Manuscript Collection and also the Collection of Early Prints of the National Széchényi Library, who have searched for and prepared a vast amount of materials to our request in the past few years. I am very thankful for the help of the collaborators of the county archives’: Péter Dominkovits in the Archives of Sopron; György Tilcsik, Gyula Benczik, László Mayer and Ferenc Semei in the Vas County Archives; Imre Kapiller in the Zala County Archives, Réka Jakab in the Veszprém County Archives were all kind enough to provide information or look for relating manuscripts. We would like to express our gratitude to Géza Pálffy and István Soós, our colleagues at the Institute, for their help regarding the literature and so forth, and we owe special thanks to Boglárka Weisz for her help in the identification of medieval records. We are also obliged to Katalin Mária Kineses, fellow of the Museum of Military History, for her help. Finally we thank to Pál Fodor, director-general of the Research Centre for the Humanities of Hungarian Academy of Sciences and director of the Centre’s Institute of History, equally to Zsuzsanna Mikó, director-general of the National Archives of Hungary, for their support to this initiative and for making it possible to publish this volume in this format, as a common publication of the two institutes. Székesfehérvár, 19th April 2012. Gergely Tóth
