Notitia hungáriae novae historico geographica (Budapest, 2012)
Vas vármegye
254 VAS COUNTY the villages is a meticulous transcript of the supplement by the Chancellary (see C). From this manuscript György Gyurikovits made a transcript some time in the 1820’s (D). III. Presentation of the manuscripts a 1: 2: [Comitatus Castri Ferrei] 3: (The manuscript cannot be found) 4: Description of Vas county. 5: Mátyás Bél must have finished the first version of the description about 1728 - we signed this hypothetical draft by the letter a. This draft was still quite incomplete. The presentation of the villages of the county was missing, which induced Bél to ask Lajos Batthyány for help (see b). Besides the review of the contemporary conditions of towns and castles was insufficient (that didn’t change significantly later). 6: Around 1728 (see b) b 1:2: [Historia Comitatus Castri Ferrei] 3: (The manuscript cannot be found) 4: Description of Vas county. 5: The earliest trace of the description of Vas county can be found in the protocol and also in the documents of the general assembly of Vas county. From these sources it is clear that in the particular congregation held on 18lh July 1729 a term was assigned “for the revision of the work of Matthias Bél”, and also a committee was formed that would hold its meeting in Szombathely. The committee’s members were János Foky deputy lord lieutenant (vicecomes), János Dugovics notary, the four magistrates (János Zobothin, László Rosty, Pál Mlinarics, Zsigmond Vajda), additionaly Imre Nádasdi (Nádasdy), László Kisfaludi (Kisfaludy), Miklós Rosti (Rosty), Ádám Radosztics, László Sallér, István Zarka (Szarka) and Pál Kanitsár.1 The letter written by Bél to the Locotenential Council in on 9th July 1732 gives an answer to the question of how the manuscript got to the county authorites. According to what Bél wrote, the description was at the county authorities for revision at that time, and the lord lieutenant (comes supremus), Lajos Batthyány was devoted to promote this revision.2 However, in the same letter, at Zala county can be read that “four years before”, in 1728 Bél gave the descriptions of Zala and Vas to Lajos Batthyány (being the vicarious of the lord lieutenant of Zala county at that 1 We quote here the draft of the protocol found in the documents of the general assembly, because it is more complete: “Pro revisione operis Matthiae Bellii praefigitur terminus pro die i6. mensis Augusti. Deputantur P. Dni D. Joannes Foky Vice Comes, D. Notarius Joannes Dugovics, quatuor Dni Processuales Judlium, D. Emericus Nádasdi, Ladislaus Kisfaludi, Nicolaus Rosti, Adamus Radosztics, Ladislaus Sallér, Stephanus Zarka, Paulus Kanitsár; convenient Sabariae.” See VaML IV. 1. b. the documents of the general assembly of Vas county, documents of the assembly, particular assembly, i8'h July 1729. The name of the magistrates are not given in this note; but they are enumerated in the introduction of the protocol. See ibid. Also see IV. 1. a. Protocols of the general assembly of Vas county, protocols of the particular and general assemblies 1728-1732. p. 243. See the note relating to Bél in the protocol ibid. pp. 244-245. (the name of Imre Nádasdy is missing from the enumeration). 2 „Castriferrei, est in revisione Comitatensi, in qua procuranda, multum operae locavit ipse Dominus Supremus Comes.” See Mátyás Bél’s letter to the Locotenential Council. (Fragment.) Pozsony, 9th July 1732. In: Tóth 2006a App. IV. See the quoted part ibid. p. 75.
