Az Eszterházy Károly Tanárképző Főiskola Tudományos Közleményei. 1998. Vol. 2. Eger Journal of English Studies.(Acta Academiae Paedagogicae Agriensis : Nova series ; Tom. 26)

Studies - Lajos Szőke: Anglica vetera in the Archdiocesian Library of Eger

catalogue made at the end of the XVIHtii or the beginning of the XlXth century by József Büky with that of the Albert-Michalek (XlXth c.) would reveal much data about the acquisition of books at the time. This work is now going on. the results of which will be published later . According to the Nyizsnyai-catalogue the Library of the Roman Catholic Theological College of Eger also has grammar books and Latin or Hungarian works by English authors but no works in English (Nyizsnyai 1901). This short outline does not pretend to go into details in any of the fields but rather it wants to call attention to how English culture was valued in the past and what impact it made on contemporary Hungarian intellectuals in the XVIIIth century. The Holy Bible, the Old and New Testament 146