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the Hungarian court chancellery whether they finished revising the ¢extus.*! They
did not understand the issue, they could not find the manuscript to be examined
(typical administration). Jänos Reviczky (1702-1778) did however examine the
manuscript carefully, and made suggestions for corrections,** but he also indi¬
cated that the text was difficult to understand. Bél even asked him to read the
dedication and the introduction before sending it to be printed.**
‘Thus far we do not know the correspondence between Martin Schmeizel and
Mátyás Bél, Even though Bél must have certainly followed his contemporary’s in¬
ternationally respected work. Attila Verék assumes that Matyas Bél’s son, Karoly
Andras Bél (1717-1782), probably studied with Schmeizel in Halle.*® In 1734,
Martinus Foit dedicated a medical work jointly to Bél and Schmeizel.“° When
the republication of the fundamental works of Hungarian historiography and the
planning of a new kind of historiographical chapter surfaced, Bél took Martin
Schmeizel’s work on the Hungarian Holy Crown (1712, 1713) into account, and
at his suggestion it was included in the volume Scriptores*’ published by Johann
Georg Schwandtner (1716-1791).**
‘The critical edition of Naldo Naldi’s text is yet to be published, although Jenő
Abel once edited it (1890) probably,**’ and ever since there have been many schol¬
ars studying it.**° They are all descendants of Janos Reviczky, who are trying to
interpret the meaning of each phrase, to show us what King Matthias’s library
might have looked like.
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Hungaria
As can be seen from the previous section, the attention of not only the Euro¬
pean, but also the Hungarian scholarly community had turned towards Corvina
research. At the same time, an organised process of uncovering Hungarian-related
documents has also begun. This was happening partially along the lines of schol¬
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SZELESTEI NAGY-GRÜLL, kiad., Be/ Mätyas levelezese, 1993, 387.
#2 12 October 1736 SzELESTEI NaGy-GrÜLL, kiad., Be/ Maätyas levelezese, 1993, 390.
#3 6 March 1737 SZELESTEI NAGY-GRÜLL, kiad., Bél Mátyás levelezése, 1993, 402.
884 17 March 1737 SZELESTEI NAGY-GRÜLL, kiad., Bél Mátyás levelezése, 1993, 403—404.
135 "VERÓK 2015, 95.
336 VeROK 2015, 273.
#7 SCHWANDTNER 1746.
For more about this story see Tor G. 2013, 593-617. (itt: 599, 606-608). According to Gergely Toth,
the fact that Schmeizel’s book was published in two editions, and that in the second edition (1713) the
author changed the text, may be a sign that the advice of Mátyás Bél was taken into account..
49 ÁBEL, kiad., Olaszorszagi XV. szdzadbeli..., I, 1890, 259-296.
409 Here I only refer to the study of Klara Pajorin and Gabor Bolonyai: Pajorin 2004.; BoLonyai 2010.;
Botonyat 2012.; BorLonvaı 2013.
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