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the image of Hungarians, or merely of the Hungarian Kingdom, in the world, and in connection with what a European intellectual thought of the Hungarian Kingdom. Furthermore, what actions of Hungarians, or those from the Hungarian Kingdom, were appreciated as enriching the common European knowledge. The destruction after the occupation of Buda = Paratexts of Teth-I7th century editions ~ Praise for Matthias and his library A number of narrative sources (Ursinus Velinus (1493-1539), Nicolaus Olahus (1493-1568), Martin Brenner ($1553), Johannes Alexander Brassicanus (+1539) etc.) from the first period have survived, describing the destruction of the library, with a few turns of humanist rhetoric.”” In the future there is sure to emerge new data in this genre, however, in my summary I will try to add just a few more to the list of names. I want to highlight one humanist in particular, Michael Neander (1529-1581), for an odd quote that I noticed. 27 CsABA Csapodi summarised these views in his English-language monograph. Cf. Csaronı 1973, 72-90. 49
