A Fővárosi Szabó Ervin Könyvtár évkönyve 2002-2003-2004
TANULMÁNYOK - Szabó Ágnes: Friedrich Bernhard Werner vedutáskönyve a Fővárosi Szabó Ervin Könyvtár Budapest Gyűjteményében
„Ist die Haupstadt des tridentinischen Gebiets ganz an der italiaenischen Graentze gelegen. / Den Nahmen soll Sie von den 3. Kleinen Flüssen haben, welche von denen benachbarten Ge=/bürge her ab Schüssen, und bey selbiger in die Elsh ergiessen, oder von den 3. Spitzen der Berge / zwischen denen Sie gelegen. Sie ist sehr alt. Der König Dietrich von Bern hat Sie mit einer / Mauer umgeben. Sie stund erstlich unter denen Gothen, kam aber an die Römer. Sie ist nicht / sehr gross. Ihr Bischoff ist ein Reichs - Fürst, und die Dom - Kirche heist zu S. Virgilio, / die Etsch fliesset vorbey, worüber eine zimlich lange Brücke gehet, ferner ist daselbst die / Kirche zu S. Mariae Maggiore, worinner im 16. Saeculo das Concilium gehalten worden. / In der S. Peters Kirch aber, wird ein Leichnam eines Kindes gezeiget, so die Juden den 23. / Martÿ A°. 1478. ermordert, welches Papst Sixtus IV. unter den Nahmen Simonis canoni: /sirt. Der Bischöfflich Pallast, ligt aussen vor der Stadt, der von Bernhard Olesio erbauet. / worden, und fast wie eine kleine Citadell anzusehen ist.” Jelezve a szövegtől balra és jobbra: „Cum / Privil. / Sacrae / Caesar. / Maiest.”, „I. C. Leopold / exc. a.. V. / F. B. Werner / ad Vivum / delineavit.”.A jobb alsó sarokban „T. 5.” jelölés olvasható. A két kartus között, közepén a város címere látható. Ágnes Szabó FRIEDRICH BERNHARD WERNER’S VEDUTA BOOK IN BUDAPEST COLLECTION OF THE METROPOLITAN ERVIN SZABÓ LIBRARY Curiosity is as old as mankind. Travelling was only the privilege of the rich for a long time so only few people could see life. But people were actuated to know more about the country and the towns they lived in, the people they met by congenital curiosity. It was only possible for them with the help of book illustrations and separate engravings for a long time. In the Metropolitan Ervin Szabó Library several pieces of work showing townscapes and battles can be found as illustrations. One of them is vedutabook which has been restored recently thanks to the financial support of a restoration tender by the Hungarian National Cultural Fund. It was made by Friedrich Bernhard Werner (1690-1778), one of the few artists who visited Hungary. He started his visit in Hungary on 20th May 1732 on behalf of Jeremias Wolffs Erben, the print publisher in Ausburg. In this copy there are empty stripes for texts at the top and the bottom of the townscapes, and empty tables and columns are left for commentary. The main sights are numbered and named in these empty spaces. In engravings someone else drew the pictures of the country-side with figures, coats of arms, ships, clouds, frames etc. The townscapes show more of the town in width and depth - which is characteristical for baroque-styled vedutas - than we could see in reality. For the same reason hills and towers of buildings seem to be higher than their real size. All these are used as the means of compression and emphasis. Under the landscapes Latin or /and German commentary texts can be found which tell us the history of the given town on the basis of legends and historic events. There is also some information on the history of certain buildings, the number of population, their religion. In the collection the German towns prevaile followed by the Italian ones and in the end three Hungarian towns - namely Komarom, Sopron and Buda - are mentioned among some specialities like Corfu, Krakkow, London, Malta and Paris. The engravings may have originated from the 1830s and according to the notes it was Johann Christoph Leopold who made them. 288
