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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 23 23 3 45 45 46 49 6] 6/ 6/ 68 70 73 8] 90 96