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Contents

Preface: one library - multiple cults
The Bibliotheca Corvina amongst the contemporary collections
Printed books in the Corvina ~ publishing based on corvinas
Incunabula in the 15th-century royal and princely libraries
The corvina as the source used in humanist textual criticism research and publishing

Prologue
The histories of the Corvina library
The destruction after the occupation of Buda
~ Paratexts of Teth-17th century editions - Praise for Matthias and his library
Mentions of codices remaining in Buda
17th-century attempts to retrieve the codices left in Buda and taken to Constantinople
The atternpts of the Jesuits
The attempts of the Transylvanian princes
The attempt of the Habsburg court
The age of confronting the revised book material after the Ottoman expulsion

Historia bibliothecarum = Historia Iitteraria
Torun - Leipzig - Jena
Hungaria
Xystus Paulus Schier’s (1727-1772) dissertation on the Corvina
~ its timeless lessons {that reach beyond itself)
Hungaria ~ Transylvania = Europa

Hungarus consciousness ~ Hungarian consciousness:

The permanent and changing purposes of
Bibliotheca Corvina exhibitions and albums

Appendix
Notes from the bequest of Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli in Bologna (BUB MS)
Fondo Marsigli 85 F
Fondo Marsigli 85 E

Correspondence between Ignác Batthyány and

Anselme Berthod OSB on the Corvinas of Besangon
Ingurring letter from Ignác Batthyány:
Draft reply by Anselme Berthod OSB:
Abbreviations and literature cited in abbreviated form:
List of illustrations
Index of Person and Geographical Names

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