Reisz T. Csaba: Magyarország általános térképének elkészítése a 19. század első évtizedében - Lipszky János és segítői térképészeti vállalkozásának ismertetése (Budapest, 2002)
IDEGEN NYELVŰ ÖSSZEFOGLALÓK - The Making of Hungary’s First General Map in the first Decade of the 19th Century. The Cartographic Enterprise of János Lipszky
as miscellaneous places of interest. Lipszky requested county officials to perform meticulous corrections by giving them detailed guidance but allowing them to freely correct what they wished. The Council of the Governor-general in a circular dated 5 August ordered twelve counties, then on 9 September the remaining counties to correct the enclosed materials and to return it as soon as possible. From this point on, the tasks of the Council of the Governor-general only related to urging counties in delay to make necessary corrections and to send that to the authority. It is quite clear from the sources that the process of collecting corrections did not go easily, with many reminders sent to counties. Eventually, after three years, this process of gathering corrected materials from all the counties was completed. County officials marked their corrections on the registered that had been compiled by Lipszky (excluding cases where, because of numerous errors, they had to prepare new registers) and sent them back without a copy. According to official records, supplements were forwarded to the editor of the map, Lipszky, by detaching them from the documents and without any further written administration, by brevi manu (shortly) as called in contemporary vocabulary. Hence, county maps disappeared for a long time until a part of them were successfully acquired for the National Széchényi Library in 1997. In the course of carrying out the work, apart from counties reluctantly delaying the corrections, counties that outright did not wish to perform this task impeded this work, by referring to various theoretical considerations or technical difficulties that manifested in their refusal to perform corrections (at least in a timely manner). In spite of the fact the Lajos Schedius had earlier informed Zach that the vicebailiffs of the counties were truly educated persons who had offered to support the process, in addition to reminding letters the Council of the Governor-general had to utilize all its authority and connections to persuade them to return the corrected register and sketch maps. Komárom was the most outstanding county in delay, which also relied on technical problems but for chiefly reasons of principle was unwilling to correct the map. The county argued that a detailed map of this sort may prove to be harmful for the state and therefore did not endorse its preparation. The Council of the Governor-general could not influence the county and had to resort to assistance from the Chancellery. At the vigorous persistence of the Chancellery, the county though reluctantly, performed the corrections at the emperor’s order, but noted that it hoped the map would never be published. Turóc county, similarly to Hont and Heves-Külső-Szolnok (the Council of the Governor-general mixed up their materials), Somogy (which requested additional experts) and Fiume (where the materials were simply lost) were all in delay in submitting the required corrections. 441
