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‘The chronology of world history by Pieter van Opmeer (1526-1595) and Laurens 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 created 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 HebrewArabic-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 number 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), Reinold 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 Valpovo (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. 61
