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7"ADPARATVS " AD; ez ‚HISTORIAM ‚HVNGARIAE. SIVE COLLECTIO MISCELLA, Monumentorum ineditorum partim , . partim editorum , fed fugientium. ‘ Conguifinit , in Decades partitus ef}, & Prefationibus ‚.atque Notis illuftrauit , MATTHIAS BEL. Cum Cenfira Ampliff: Senarus Pofinienge Sumtu Philohiftorum Patriæ. Poson1r, Typis Joannis Paulli Royer, e A. MDCCXXXV. 09. Olah, De Hungaria Occidentali (ed. Bel), 1735 ‘The history of the Corvina library in the 16th and 17th centuries are divided into four periods by both Zolnai and Csapodi: (1) the period of destruction after the occupation of Buda, (2) an era of annotations mentioning the presence of a large number of printed books in Buda in the last third of the 16th century, to which we now add the paratextus of later 16th and 17th century editions of classical and medieval texts that refer to manuscripts that were once in Buda; (3) the “reclaiming” efforts of the 17th century, and (4) the age of confrontation with the revised book collection after the expulsion of the Ottomans. Zolnai and Csapodi did not associate the historical presentation aspects with the cultic or national consciousness elements linked to the history of the library in each period, thus, this aspect was not addressed in their work. Also, because Klara Zolnai and the Csapodi couple wanted to reconstruct the former library’s holdings, the texts that merely praised Matthias for his work in building the Corvina were of little interest to them. However, we are interested in how the collection shaped 48
