AZ ORSZÁGOS SZÉCHÉNYI KÖNYVTÁR ÉVKÖNYVE 1959. Budapest (1961)

IV. Könyvtár- és művelődéstörténeti tanulmányok - Summaires

Following up the National Library's prohibited material in the time of the Horthy-régime G. MARKOVITS The article briefly outlines the most important characteristics of publishing policies during the Horthy-régime, from the defeat of the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919 until the liberation in 1945. The basic material for the study was furnished by material of the National Library termed confidential in the period under discussion. The author describes the first decrees of the White Terror-régime against the freedom of press directed at the destruction of publications issued under the Hungarian Soviet Republic and indicates the most important measures put into force over the twenty-five years' period of the counter-revolutionary fascist dictatorship. A selection of the most characteristic books, periodicals, and other kinds of small-prints suppressed during this time (H. Barbusse, J. Fodor, A. József, A. Zweig, etc.) is also discussed. The Hor/^-régime began with the burning of books and terminated with the ill-famed paper-mills of M. Kolosváry-Borcsa: events characteristic of the whole cultural policy of the era. Every kind of measure was resorted to in order to suppress progressive literature. The censorship of the press made itself more or less constantly felt. One of the suppressing measures had been the revocation of mailing rights from the works of exiled left-wing writers and communist authors residing abroad, from anti-fascist literature, even from the outstanding works of the progressive-minded bourgeois authors. Many progressive books were officially confiscated, the left-wing press was practically prohibited. The multiplication of libel cases in the thirties is a well-known fact. It appears from the article that one of the chief aims of the cultural policy of the Horthy régime had been the suppression of communist press and literature, but all that served the aims of humanity, progress and true culture, was equally persecuted. The article is based exclusively on information found in documents; its statements are supported by the attached illustrations. Peraudfs two printed letters of indulgence in the Hungarian National Archives G. BORSA Numerous rare broadsides, dating back to times before 1526, are preserved in the special collection of documents of the Hungarian National Archives. From among these the author is now describing two letters of indulgence, published by Raimundus Peraudi, who was one of the most fervent supporters of the proclamation of indulgence in the interest of warfare against the Turks. One of these broadsides was already made known in the literature of early printed documents {Einblattdrucke des XV. Jahrhunderts. Halle a. S. 1914, Nr. 1143J. It was described on the basis of a Hannover copy, up to then held to be an unique one. The article, therefore, is concerned with Johann Siebenhirter in first line, in whose name the form was made out in 1490. Siebenhirter was Grand Master of the Order of St. George of Austria; the study reveals 406