AZ ORSZÁGOS SZÉCHÉNYI KÖNYVTÁR ÉVKÖNYVE 1991-1993. Budapest (1997)

II. Az OSZK történetéből és munkájából - Beöthyné Kozocsa ildikó: A Corvina-program - The Corvina project

JEGYZETEK 1. Ipolyi Arnold: Mátyás király könyvtára maradványainak felfedezése 1862. = Magyar Könyvszemle, 1878. III. 115.1. 2. Riport Németh G. Béla főigazgatóval = Magyar Hírlap, 1981. január 30. 3. Beöthy-Kozocsa I., Sipos-Richter T., Szlabey Gy.: Parchment Codex Restoration Using Parchment and Cellulose Fibre Pulp. = Restaurator, Munksgaard, Copenhagen, 1990. 11. 85-109. p. 4. Farkas Csilla: Egy bársony kötésű corvina restaurálásának problémái. = Könyv- és papírrestaurálási konferencia előadásai. Budapest, 1990. szeptember 4-7. Budapest, 1992. 165-174.1. 5. Szlabey Györgyi: A CodLat. 3. corvina restaurálása. Uo. 574-597.1. ó.Beöthyné Kozocsa Ildikó: A budapesti Dante-kódex restaurálása. = Magyar Könyvszemle, 1994. 4. 434-440.1. THE CORVINA PROJECT I. BEÖTHY-KOZOCSA The author outlines the fate of the Corvina library following the death of King Matthias: the discovery of codices in 1862 (they had got to Turkey as a war trophy), and the state of the art of codices returned to Hungary in 1877, among them that of 12 Corvina codices. The volumes kept in the University Library have got into a deteriorating physical condition owing to their former soaking. In 1980 the director general of the library called attention to the importance of urgently saving these codices. As the international assistance promised had not been realized, the Ministry of Culture commissioned the National Széchényi Library with the restoration of the manuscripts. The author describes the two-year preparatory works; the analysing and research work done by a group of experts organized to thoroughly analyse the reasons for the damage. She dwells on the activities in the restoration workshop - that had been set up parallel with this project in the new building of the National Széchényi Library -; and on the decisions of expert meetings on special issues. She summarizes the conservation and restoration processes selected during the experiments and newly developed respectively, stressing a newly invented method, the so-called parchment-moulding that was elaborated for complementing the incomplete parchments. She mentions the most damaged Corvina codices restored with success for the University Library and the National Széchényi Library, the accompanying ethical dilemmas and their solution. She sums up the achievements and finally enumerates the parchment manuscripts restored within the Corvina project and lists the names of restoration specialists. 277