Novák Ádám (szerk.): Fontes Memoriae Hungariae III. Varsóban őrzött magyar vonatkozású oklevelek, 1439–1489. Közreadja: Novák Ádám, Tóth Orsolya és Tóth Péter (Debrecen, 2019)
Foreword
III Foreword The commitment of our research group has reached another milestone, according to which we publish the complete texts of the Hungarian related diplomas kept in Warsaw. This time it is the turn of 33 diplomas dated between 1439 and 1489. Amongst them we find diplomas that were issued by Hungarian kings Albert the Magnanimous, Władysław I and Matthias, the Polish king Casimir IV, and the Czech king Władysław II. These are significant documents of diplomatic connections between their countries. In addition, there are several valuable sources regarding the history of Polish-Hungarian relations, such as the documents of the 1474 an 1479 Polish-Hungarian peace treaties and their related safe-conducts and confirmations. Following one of our previous publications 1 the multisigillic diplomas related to the coronation of Władysław I have also been included in this present booklet as we followed a holistic approach when editing the series. The diplomas that are kept in Warsaw and can be found in the Diplomatic Photo Collection of the Hungarian National Archive are all included in the publication,2 furthermore, we were able to recover the original version of another diploma. This is the document of the so called Ófalu (Spišská Stará Ves) Peace Treaty, which was so far known to our historiography through other publications (Nr. 69.). This time we publish transcriptions of three diplomas that not even the excerpts of which have been published yet (Nr. 65., 67., and 77). It is also worth noting regarding the 1479 peace treaty (Nr. 76.) that Maciej Dogiel’s work was based on the Polish version of the contract,3 whereas we publish the Hungarian copy. Besides the 1440 multisigillic diploma, many charters published in this volume contain interesting and unique imprints. Foremost among these may be the seal of the Bosnian king Nicholas of Ilok/Újlaki, which is on the cover of the booklet, and had not yet been recognized by historiography. Furthermore, we also published the pictures of the diplomas and their seals in the online database of the “Hungary in Medieval Europe” (Memoria Hungariae) research group 1 Ádám Novák: Középkori magyar pecsétek Varsóból. [Medieval Hungarian seals from Warsaw] In: Történeti Tanulmányok XXV. Suplementum . Debrecen 2018. 2 According to the origin description of the charter MNL OL DF 283 607 . (18 May 1484), it also came from the archive of Warsaw, but its source is unknown and the Polish colleague at the archive was unable to recover the original. 3 Codex diplomaticus regni Poloniae et magni ducatus Litvaniae in quo pacta, foedera, tractatus pacis... aliaque omnis generis publico nomine actorum et gestorum monumenta nunc primum ex archivis publicis eruta ac in lucem protracta, rebus ordine chronologico dispositis, exhibentur. Tomus I–V. Edd. Matthias Dogiel. Vilnae, 1758–1764. I. 77–79.
