Bendefy László: Mikoviny Sámuel megyei térképei, különös tekintettel az Akadémiai Könyvtár Kézirattárának Mikoviny-térképeire. 1. köt (A MTAK kiadványai 71. Budapest, 1976)
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347 country as well as to the Vienna and Czechoslovakian map collections. They are the members of several map series. Concerning their origin, their iniciators, their one-time owners and their present depositories the tables and summarizing maps of this book are providing useful information. A detailed investigation of the county maps of MIKOVINY which are in the possession of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences provided answers to a number of related questions. It became evident that from the points of view of content and wealth of information the series possessed by the Academy Í3 the most valuable; however, regarding their exterior presentation, the other series are (with the exception of a few sheets) more prominent ones. The presently known maps or rather those which have been recognized to be the work of MIKOVINY are classified into the following series: 1. A series to be regarded as a first draft; it is in the possession of the Map Collection of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. 2. A series prepared almost entirely in pencil, and containing eventually a small number of additions in China waterproof ink or gall ink. Several copies were marked by MIKOVINY with the sign S.P. (=Suum Proprium) ; it is well represented here. These map sheets prepared carefully, but only in pencil, were used as models. 3. Immediately from the first series, on an order of Charles III and for his personal use, the collection in the possession of the Vienna National Library Albertina-Sammlung had been prepared. It has an excellent exterior, however, for practical purposes; this series appears to be a less useful one. 4. In a temporal order, the next ones are perhaps the maps which were prepared for the sake of copper engraving very carefully and beautifully about different counties, in great detail. 5. They were followed by the production of a series of copper engravings. The maps of this series were published in the various volumes of the great geographical work of Mathias BÉL. 6. The same maps, by using new copper engraved printing plates, were also published in the work called "Stosch Atlas". 7. A beautifully and carefully executed series based on widely unified principles was published on the order of the Hungarian Camera at Pozsony, in a yellow-coloured frame. 8. There is a more improved variety of the afore-mentioned series, consisting of fully coloured sheets and framed in green cloth and pasted on cloth. This is a very valuable variety which was included in the inventory of the Council of Governor-General. 9. The elements of the county maps are contained in the carefully prepared maps of MIKOVINY deposited in the Kriegsarchiv and in the Hofkammerarchiv at Vienna. 10. The general maps belonging to the tenth series are summing up the contents of the Hungarian county maps, by representing either some regions of the country, or the whole Hungarian territory. Finally, we are mentioning the county map3 of MIKOVINY which are in the possession of the Prince Lichtenstein Archives; however they do not form a separate and independent series.
