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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 indicated 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 internationally 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 scholars 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. rk Hungaria As can be seen from the previous section, the attention of not only the European, 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 schol43 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. 3 43. 0 96
