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‘The expulsion of the Ottomans from Buda, and the fact that the catalogue of the book he found there was published twice in 1688,** and then again shortly afterwards in full,**° as I mentioned, turned the attention of the scholarly world back to the Bibliotheca Corvina. A thesis (disputatio) on lost libraries was written at the University of Vienna by Ignaz Greiner in 1729, *”” and republished in the same year thanks to Ignaz Kampmiller (1693-1777).** I do not think this is directly related to the cultural political ambitions of the Habsburg court. Nor can we count among the manifestations of the Transylvanian Saxons’ awareness of their own identity the fact that numerous publications related to Hungarian history, including the destroyed library of Matthias, were published in Jena, Wittenberg, and Leipzig. Not even when we know that Martin Schmeizel, the Brasov-born professor from Jena and Halle,” gave lectures on the subject himself. At Wittenberg University, Georgius Matthias Bosius (1710-1761) included a course on the court of Matthias Hunyadi in his curriculum, and also gave special lectures on the library.“ Anna Zbiowska-Migon considers the study of library history or the history of library fires in universities to be the beginnings of library study contemplation.*! The Leipzig publications on the same subject, also concerning the destiny of Matthias’s collection, belong to the same category. Of these, Johann Wilhelm Berger’s (1672-1751) printed course description (Lehrprogramm) from 1748,” and his short Corvina library history (1750)*° are particularly important. A few years later, Paul Fabri, under the leadership of Friedrich Börner (1723-1761), disputed and dedicated a separate publication to the Buda library, also in Leipzig.** Furthermore, before the publication of the first Corvina history, Johann Friedrich Jugler (1714-1791) published an expanded edition of Burckhard Gotthelfs Struve’s (1671-1738) literary history (Bibliotheca historiae litterariae selecta),*” already mentioned in connection with the Guarino edition, including the most complete historical bibliography of the Bibliotheca Corvina up to 1754 that I know of. This summary is, I think, the most important, after the publication of texts by Johannes Brassicanus, Johannes Lomeier, Julius Pflugk, and then Naldo Naldi, before the first real library history written by Xystus Schier. This book, however, raises a number of general questions that are still relevant today. 445° Priucius 1688a; PrLucius 1688b. 46 Prrucıus 1703. 47 GREINER 1729. 48 GREINER-KAMPMILLER 1729. 49 VERÖR 2015. #0 Bostus 1748. Unfortunately, we do not know of a copy, in bibliographies see FRANCKE, ed., Buviana Bibliotheca, 1755, 839., Namur 1838, tome 1., 146. 351 ZBiowskA-Mico 1994, 344. 42 BERGER 1748. #3 BERGER 1750. #4 FABRI-BÖRNER 1756. 455 JUGLER-STRUVE 1754, 174-180. 98
