AZ ORSZÁGOS SZÉCHÉNYI KÖNYVTÁR ÉVKÖNYVE 1960. Budapest (1962)

IV. Könyvtár- és művelődéstörténeti tanulmányok - Summaries

printed report which relates the incidents of the war during the last two months of 1501. Its text appeared as a broadside under two different titles, "Ain brief an den . . . herren Raymunden . . ." and „Das ist abschrifft von dem brieff den der Hertzog von vénedig . . ." respectively, without imprints, and it is proven that the variants were made in the Augsburg press of Johann Froschauer, and the Nuremberg press of Ambrosius Huber, respectively. The results of the war lagged far behind the expectations, but its dragging on afforded a good chance for the repeated renewal of the indulgence. So in January 1502, by order of the papal legate in Hungary, a renewed effort was made for the diffusion of the indulgence, i. e. for an increase of the income from it. Those who fulfilled the conditions for it received a certificate of their having gained full indulgence, a so-called letter of indulgence. The problem of a great number of copies with a uniform text called early for the solution of printing them, and this led also in the present case to the use of printed forms for letters of indulgence. After studying ten such prints, preserved in various letters and archives it can be stated that they represent five different compositions, two in black letters and three in Roman type, on the whole with the same text. Two editions in Roman type show the year 1501 as their date, the others the year 1502. According to the evidence of the types all five editions were products of the press of Johann Winterburger, Vienna. As there were no printing offices in Hungary at that time, and this was the nearest one, it was an obvious choice to employ Winterburger, who printed several other documents too, showing traces of relations to Hungary. Besides a detailed description of the printed letters, the paper gives data about the persons whose names appear on them. Soon the Venetians did not see their interests served by the continuation of the war, and from the summer of 1502 on there were diplomatical soundings about the possibilities of an armistice. The Venetians secured Wladislas's consent by promising him further financial support, if only on a somwhat reduced scale. The pope had to acquiesce in it, and in August 1503 the Hungarians and the Turks concluded an armistice for the period of seven years. The Cardinal-legate Isvalies paid a visit also to neighbouring Moravia to help the king in suppressing the movement of the Waldenses. Nor did he neglect the propaganda for the indulgence either on this occasion, as we can see from the letter of indulgence which he ordered at the Baumgarten printing house in Olomouc and which was printed on the back of a handbill advertising a book written against the Waldenses. With the war over, Isvalies's mission became superfluous and therefore in September 1503 he left the country. From the various sources it can be established that on account of support for the crusade, Wladislas II. received almost 360.000 ducats in these years, of which 60.000 ducats proceeded from the income in the letters of indulgence sold in Hungary. (For the sake of comparison: the king's income averaged 100—150.000 ducats a year.) A supplement contains the description of the five printed letters in the manner of the GW. Public reaction to the first Hungarian bibliographical attempt „Magyar Könyvesház" by István Sándor Z. ISZLAI The work entitled „Magyar Könyvesház''' compiled by István Sándor was published in 1803; it was the first Hungarian attempt at a retrospective Hungarian national bibliography. The article examines the importance of the bibliography in the light of contemporary cultural and scientific activity. It reveals the social background of the reviews that appeared (in German) following immediately upon the publication of the work, and describes the opinions of F. Kazinczy and his followers in this connection. The study also tells about the views of István Sándor himself on the critiques of his work, and about the evaluation given to it later, at the end of the 19th century. In terminating his study, the author shows, on the basis of the example cited by him, that one among the inconsistencies of the Hungarian cultural policy then was the fact that not official social organs but only individuals were capable of understanding the social needs of the times. 23 Évkönyv 353