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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), summarised 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 literature, 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 scholarship*” 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 expectations for a successful operation. Due to his being the librarian of the imperial library, many people corresponded with Peter Lambeck concerning the publica315 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. 70
