Oldal 72 [72]
nata eadem exsistit, guippe cum ea ex Bibliotheca Budensi egregio manuscriptorum
thesauro locupletata maximam partem libris majoris ordinis superbiret." Kein Zweifel,
dass ausser der Ofner im lbten Jahrhunderte keine reichere Bibliothek Ungarns und
Siebenbürgens bestanden habe, als jene im Burzenlande. Der furchtbare Brand vom
21. April 1689 zerstörte auch die „Liberie”, nur sehr weniges konnte gereitet werden,
wie mehrere eingenhändige Briefe Melanchthon's und Luther's u. à. m.”
The altempt of the Habsburg court
Joachim Hagemeier, (1617-1681) a lawyer and diplomat from Hamburg, at the
request of his lord, the Lutheran Friedrich Casimir von Hanau (1623-1685), sum¬
marised the basic historical events of the Hungarian Kingdom and the Czech
Kingdom and presented their state of affairs after the Peace of Westphalia.*** He
writes the following in this letter (epistola):
»8 8. Malthiae Corvini Regis Hungaeriae Bibliotheca Budensis, optimis manu exeratis
codicibus, et Graecis praecipue plena fuit. Hujus reliquias Turcae per ultimam Pacem
anni 1664 Leopoldo Caesar! concesserunt, quae Viennae asservantur, ubi Thesauro
librario praeest Clarissimus Petrus Lambecius.""
‘That is, in some parts of Europe it was believed that during the negotiation of the
Peace of Vasvar, the imperial side managed to persuade the Turks to hand over
the codices valued as relics originating from King Matthias’s library, and they
were stored in Vienna. Hagemeier did not specify whether these were the codices
preserved in Buda or in Constantinople. Noémi Viskolcz has written the most
detailed study of the issue, publishing, in addition to the previously unquoted lit¬
erature, the relevant parts of the letters of Walter Leslie (1607-1667), the imperial
envoy, and the diary of Peter Lambeck (1628—-1680).*" She dealt in particular with
the connections between the Peace of Vasvar and Lambeck’s journey to Buda in
1666." The source edition of the most recent related work of Austrian scholar¬
ship*” is incomplete, but Noémi Viskolcz filled this gap. I consider it important
to note that these documents also confirm the imperial intention to strengthen
the cultish foundations of the empire by unifying the remains of the Bibliotheca
Corvina and propagating this widely.
It is noteworthy that not only did the political elite know about Lambeck going
to Buda, but also the European members of the respudlica litteraria had high ex¬
pectations for a successful operation. Due to his being the librarian of the imperial
library, many people corresponded with Peter Lambeck concerning the publica¬
315 HAGEMEIER 1680, 1686.
316 HAGEMEIER 1680, 9., HAGEMEIER 1686, 9.
#7 ViskoLcz 2006; VıskoLcz 2008; VıskoLcz 2009.
318 ViskoLcz 2009, 154-156.
39 GASTGEBER 2005.
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