Szotyori-Nagy Ágnes (szerk.): A Magyar Mezőgazdasági Múzeum Közleményei 2011-2012 (Budapest, 2012)
Tanulmányok - Nagy Ágota: A Pannonhalmi Maggyűjtemény
pányszerű volt, máskor a véletlenszerűség eredményezte, továbbá nem egy, hanem számos gazdája volt, ez nem is várható el. Mindazonáltal olyan botanikai, gazdaság- és kultúrtörténeti értékkel bír, ami a feltétlen védelmet, biztonságos őrzést és állagmegóvást indokolja. 2005-től ez a Magyar Mezőgazdasági Múzeum szép szakmai feladata, felelőssége. The Seed Collection of Pannonhalma ÁGOTA NAGY This collection, which contains 324 items, is a nearly 200-year-old teaching aid, and was acquired by the Museum of Hungarian Agriculture in 2005. As such, it is the oldest existing seed collection in Hungary. The collection was originally owned by the Arch-abbey of Pannonhalma, which purchased it in 1833. After nearly 150 years it was transferred to the Teachers’ Training College of Pécs in 1969, where it was used as a teaching aid for natural history lessons. In 2002, as a result of the reorganisation of the college, the collection was moved again, this time to the Agrobotany Institute at Tápiószele. There some samples were taken from the vials for experimental purposes and these continue to be stored at the institute. In the spirit of the contract of cooperation with the Museum of Hungarian Agriculture the institue finally donated the collection the museum. It was László Zsigmond Vöröss, the botanist of the Pécs training college, who first described the collection scientifically in 1971. His system of serialisation was the basis for the catalogue of Latin-Hungarian plant names that is presented in this paper. A new discovery is the contribution of the Franciscan monk Fábián Szeder, who expanded and classified the collection in the 1830s. As regards its content, the flora of 1800s Pannonhalma is represented in the collection in true proportions. The majority is trees and bushes, followed by flowers, and finally vegetables and field plants are represented in equal proportions. The collection has remarkable values in terms of botany and economic-cultural history. Therefore, a museum is the best environment for its keeping, a duty that the Museum of Hungaian Agriculture performs readily. 103
