Colloquia Maruliana ..., Vol. 8 , 1999.
Original scientific paper
New Data Concerning the 16th and 17th Century Reception of Marulić’s Oeuvre in Hungary
István Lőkös
Abstract
The author extends the range of information he released in a previous paper published in Volume VI of Colloquia Maruliana. The life and work of the 16th and 17th century moral theologian from Split was well known in the West, as it was in Hungary. After the tragic battle of Mohács in 1526 and the fall of Buda in 1541, intellectual life was confined to the northern and western parts of the country, and to Transylvania. Some Hungarian aristocrats living in these territories possessed valuable libraries that were destroyed in the following centuries. The reconstruction of them is a task for librarians living today. This work is already under way; as a result, we know more about the collections of Miklös Istváffy, János Kecskés, György Thurzó and Zakariás Mossóczy. Mossóczy was one of the most intelligent and erudite Hungarian aristocrats of his time. He was Bishop of Nyitra and sponsored several Renaissance projects. There were one thousand volumes in his library, one of the most valuable in the country. He owned works by Erasmus, Luther, Melanchthon and one by Marulić. From the reconstruction of this library and its catalogue, we can infer that the work in question was the 1516 or perhaps 1532 edition of Marulićs Evangelistarium or the 1530 (or 1532) edition of his Institutio bene vivendi published in Cologne.
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Publication date:
22.4.1999.
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