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FORRÁS - Simon Zoltán: A füzéri vár 1623. évi inventáriuma

Geschichte der Burg und ergänzt diese mit wertvollen Beiträgen zu den früher gewonnenen Folgerungen. Anderseits dient es zur genaueren Kenntnis eines bisher kaum erforschten Gebiets, namentlich des Alltagslebens und der materiallen Kultur der während der ganzen Türkenzeit in christlicher Hand verbliebenen, keine Grenzfestungsrolle spielender Burgen. Nachdem gegenwartig in der Burg Füzér archäologische Erschließung im Gang ist, bietet sich eine einmalige Möglichtkeit zum Vergleich des schriftlichen und des archäologischen Quellenmaterials, ging doch die Burg im Laufe des 17. Jahrhundert zugrunde. Bei den Grabungen kommen oft Gegenstände zum Vorschein, die in den schriftlichen Quellen erwähnt werden. Das schriftliche und archäologische Quellenmaterial kann einander nicht nui* bestätigen, sondern auch einander ergänzen indem beide ein realistischeres Bild eines Augenblicks des Lebens der Burg bieten. Das Inventar wurde zweifellos für den damaligen Burgherren, Paul Nádasdy (f 1633) verfaßt. Der Text ist in den Nádasdy-Schriften im einstigen Kammerarchiv, gegenwärtig im Ungarischen Landesarchiv erhalten geblieben. Zoltán SIMON THE 1623 INVENTORY OF THE FORTRESS OF FÜZÉR A historical period cannot be known or described only with the help studying important events, political actions, wars, economic rules, etc. One of the most important tasks of the science of history is to gather information concerning the everyday life and culture of an age, as this makes history and forms it to something that can be globally investigated. As a conclusion, collecting and explaining sources of everyday life can be considered as our basic task of research. This work is helped most effectively by the publications of sources. Written sources have several types. These are basically determined by the age in which they had been born, and by the need having created them. Different information is given by a 13

th century deed of gift, a 15

lh century deed of sentence, or a 16

th century private letter, a 17th mortgage contract, inventory or book of account and it could be continued. All types of written sources give us a glimpse on the everyday life of the given period. When these pieces of information are put together we can get a view of certain fields of interest. The source published here is the inventory of the castle of Füzér made on 3rd January, 1623. The publication of the text is important from several points. On the one hand fits in the series of earlier source publications concerning the castle, completing them with valuable facts, on the other hand it serves the more accurate knowledge of a field of a field less investigated till now - the everyday life and material culture of castles and fortresses remaining in Christian possession during Ottoman rule and not having the function of border castle. As there is an archaeological excavation today in Füzér, there is a unique possibility to compare written and archaeological sources, because the castle was destroyed in the 17

th century, and in the course of excavations often those objects were found, which had been mentioned by written sources. Written and archaeological might confirm and complete each other, giving a more realistic view of a certain period of the castle's life. The inventory must have been made for Pál Nádasdy (t 1633). Its text has remained in the National Archive, in the Nádasdy collection of the Chamber's Archive.