Haris Andrea szerk.: Koldulórendi építészet a középkori Magyarországon Tanulmányok (Művészettörténet - műemlékvédelem 7. Országos Műemlékvédelmi Hivatal,)

Kárpáti Gábor – Szekér György: A pécsi ferences és domonkos kolostorok kutatása

The Survey of the Franciscan and Dominican Monasteries at Pécs Gábor Kárpáti - György Szekér It shows the importance of Pécs during the Middle Ages that this was the only Hungarian town beside Buda where all four mendicant orders were represented, with a total of five monasteries. The precise location of the residence of the Hospitallers, which was the first order to settle here and whose presence was earliest mentioned in 1187, is not known. The Dominican Monastery was first mentioned in 1238 and was also among the first mendicant orders to arrive; on the basis of the research carried out since 1987 their monastery was situated in the south-western part of the town. The Franciscan Monastery, founded in 1301, was in the south-eastern corner of the town; the nave of its church was incorporated into a building raised in the Modern Age. The Augustinian Monastery probably stood outside the town walls, in the area of today's St. Augustine parish church, to the west of the city. The Carmelite Monastery, named after St. Ladislas, was right on the periphery of the town, directly to the south; the Carmelites were given permission to work here in 1372. The Holy Spirit Convent of the Dominican nuns was outside the town wall, near today's Zidina. Pécs was occupied by the Turks in 1543; the mediaeval monasteries disappeared without a trace during the period of Turkish suzerainty. The chancel of the Church of the Franciscan Monastery was excavated in 1978. Around 1500 the original chancel was rebuilt into a semi-octagonal shape, supported by buttresses. It was destroyed in the 16th century, and its stones were used for building Memi Pasha's Mosque; it was identified with the help of a keystone featuring St. Francis, which had been uncovered from the mosque in the 20th century. In the course of a reconstruction in the Modern Age, the new chancel was built at the western end, reversing the orientation of the church. The survey of the Dominican Monastery has been going on since 1987. In the courtyard of the house at No. 8. Munkácsy Mihály Steet, the remains of a building-complex following the typical plan of a monastery were found in a 15 metres by 25 metes rectangle, having its longer axis pointed almost precisely to the north and containing the middle third of a church nave, with the adjoining aisle on the north side and with the north-western corner of the cloister on the south, also featuring the starting point of the western wing. The ensemble was identified as the Dominican Monastery built in the Middle Ages. The buildings of the monastery were richly ornamented around the year 1500. The intricate pattern of the stellar rib vault could be reconstructed from the uncovered stone carvings produced in that period. Both in its pattern and in its details, the vaulting was identical to the Late Gothic vault of the chancel pulled down before 1882, in the Cathedral of Pécs. The stylistic similarities of the vaults point to South-German and Swabian influences, further enriching our knowledge