Notitia hungáriae novae historico geographica (Budapest, 2012)

Sopron vármegye

INTRODUCTION

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5: It was written by an unknown hand with some corrections by undoubtedly the same hand (f. lv, 6r, 8r).

6: End of the 1710’s.

[De]b

1: EFK Hist. I. bbb. ff l'-2v, llr—I5r 2: Descriptio Comitatus Semproniensis.

3: 7 ff. 210x165 mm.

4: Description of Sopron county from an unknown author.

5: Fair copy of the previous manuscript ([De]“).2 Bél (or Matolai) used it for the first version of the county description.3 6: End of the 1710’s.

A

1: EFK Hist. I. yy.

2: Comitatus Semproniensis.

3: 48 ff. 330x210 mm.

4: Description of Sopron county.

5: János Matolai’s handwriting with corrections during the process.4 Undoubtedly he is the author of the manuscript that is also fortified by the fact that he prepared an essay on Sopron wines to Bél.5 6: After 1725.6

B

1: EFK Hist. I. aaa.

2: Comitatus Semproniensis.

3: 79 ff 325x205 mm.

4: Description of Sopron county.

5: Transcript by an unknown hand. A fair copy of the previous manuscript (A), its corrections can be found already in the base text.7 Bél corrected and completed the manuscript considerably (he used it for his usual largescale correction on the text by Matolai).

6: After 1725.

2 Corrections of the previous manuscript are already in the base text here. For example the supplement that’s in the previous manuscript (amongst the villages: “6. Egyed” [on the margin with supplement sign] see [De]“ f. 8') can be already read in the basic text here (sec [De]b f. 14').

3 For example the unknown author mentions the so called Aniensis inscription (f. r) concluding as follows: “Ex qua inscriptione elucet urbem Semproniensem adhuc Augusti temporibus a Romanis fuisse inhabitatam", (f. 2') Mátyás Bél, or more precisely János Matolai takes it in his text as follows: “Alii ex vetustis Romanorum monimentis, quae effossa hinc et illinc occurrerunt, certius colligunt, Augusti iam temporibus urbem a Romanis esse inhabitatam". See A f. i5r'v.

4 See also Tóth 2001. 236-237.

5 Tóth 2007a 1.52.

6 He writes about the years of bad weather in Sopron: “Talis erat annus 1716. noxius uvis, uti et annus 1724. et 1725. quibus grando multum damni passim adtulit”. See A f. 22'.

See also Tóth 20or. 236-237.

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