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‘The chronology of world history by Pieter van Opmeer (1526-1595) and Lau¬
rens Beyerlinck (1578-1627) also plays a similar role in the flow of information.
It was also published in 1611, 1625, and then in 1684.°%* In this book Matthias
Hunyadi is mentioned at the year 1490, with his death. It is important to note,
however, that the only mention of the achievements of the Hungarian ruler, who
had won himself a significant place in the European power game, is that he cre¬
ated an excellent library which made it possible to study Hebrew and Greek texts
philologically.
490. Matthias Corvinus Rex inclytus Hungariae apud Erumnam e vivis excessit. Qui
emendo varios Haebraicos et Graecos libros e media Graecia Budae memorabilem
Bibliothecam instituerat. 5
Perhaps it is worth acknowledging that I find it interesting that several people
mentioned the possibility of studying Hebrew texts (again, we are talking about a
chronology of world history). One indication of the Hebrew language becoming
part of the studies during the reign of Matthias Hunyadi could be that a person
named Jacobus de Hungaria (15th century) proposed the foundation of a Hebrew¬
Arabic-Greek-Latin school" for a Benedictine community in Alsace, and could
also be that the a Hebrew expert at the Buda Dominican University in known to
have worked.” I want to point out that in Western Europe, the institution of the
collegium trilingve only became accepted during the 16th century (Leuven, 1518;
Paris, 1530).
Mentions of codices remaining in Buda
In the second period, at the end of the 16th century, there was a growing num¬
ber of sources that suggest the possible existence of the library, or at least the
presence of a large number of codices in Buda (David Ungnad von Sonnegg
(1535-1600), Stefan Gerlach (1546-1612), Salomon Schweiger (1551-1622), Rei¬
nold Lubenau (1556-1631) etc.).*** An unsourced notion related to this question
which has appeared in Croatian local historical literature, is that a (unnamed)
pasha of Buda took part of the Bibliotheca Corvina with him to the castle of Val¬
povo (Valpé).*” Another question would also be how did the Hilarius Corvinus
end up in the Croatian National Library??? While researching the history of the
library of Miklös Istvänffy (1538-1615),?” Jené Berlasz, in a supplement to his
264 OpMEER—BEYERLINCK 1611; OPMEER 1625, 1684.
265 OPMEER-BEYERLINcK 1611, 431.; OPMEER 1625, 717.; OPMEER 1684, 717.
266 Monok 2020.
267 DAN R. 1973, 26-28.
268 Cr. Csapopı 1984, 47-48.
29 HocH-Kunat 1876, 24-25.
20 De sancto Trinitate, Zagreb, R 4071
271 BERLÁSZ 1961.
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