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with the problems that arise from the behaviours of people coming here from
other cultures, Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, etc. etc., where they are even more
coded by their history, especially their religious customs. Ihey regard their tradi¬
tions differently and do not want to give them up or forget them. The previously
mentioned interpretation of “Europeanness” is, therefore, a matter of survival,
beyond cultural bounds.
rk
Hungaria = Transylvanıa = Europa
However, Xystus Schier was not the only one in the mid-18th century who pub¬
lished and interpreted the sources of the cultural flourishing during the reign of
Matthias Hunyadi. Johann Georg Schwandtner (1716-1791), also Austrian, pub¬
lished a significant part of the narrative sources of Hungarian history in 1746,
and then twice in 1768, following Mätyäs Bel, including his foreword. There are
several mentions of Matthias Corvinus, his library, and its misfortune, but more
detailed mention is made in Galeotto Marzio’s (1427-1497) writing in praise of
Matthias ((De egregie, sapienter, jocose dictis ac factis S. Regis Mathiae, ad inclytum
Ducem Johannem ejus filium) in chapters XXIV and XXV (factum sapienter, sapi¬
enter dictum). In the same year as Schier’s dissertation,” the Slovakian Adam
Frantisek Kollar (1718-1783), of Trencsén county and director of the imperial
collection in Vienna, began publishing the library history of his predecessor Peter
Lambeck (1628-1680) with notes, and later the supplements as well.*”* He already
applied the philological findings from the century following Lambeck’s death to
the description of the individual codices. In 1767 the Jesuit Istvan Kaprinai (1714—
1785) began to publish his historical summary of the diplomatica of the Hungar¬
ian Kingdom, without forgetting to explain how important the foundation of the
Buda printing house and the library were in the history of the Matthias Era. *”
#6 SCHWANDTNER 1746, 528-568.; SCHWANDTNER 1768, 163-208.; SCHWANDTNER 1768a, 163-208.
497 ScHIER 1766.
#8 KoLLar 1790.
399 Kaprınaı 1767, 64-80.: Dissertatio I. De natalibus, institutione ac dotibus Regis Mathiae, Caput II. §
III. De artibus, quibus Rex Mathias primum institutus, ac postea perpolitus est. (itt: 70-71.).
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