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pertinuisse certum est [these last two words are crossed out, instead:] juvat scripto
tradiderunt ii quos penis fuit. Ipsorum verba exhibenda sunt. In interiori figurae[?]
Colligationis parte sinistra legitur.
Sum Marci Singkhnoser in Iufal Cons[iliarii] et Secr[etarfij latini Sacrae Rom[anae]
et Regiae M]aiesta]tis°”' ex dono quondam Maglist]ri Joannis Mariae Matlvetii°” mihi
anno salutis 1550 Constantinopoli facto
et inferius
Ex libris Bibliothecae[!] Buden|si] sereni[ssimi] quondam Regis Mathiae a Tur¬
cis direptae.
tum in 1* pagina additur diversa manu
Alphonsi de Gamch[?Gamitz?]” fortune ad coetera 1573 Emptus Vienne
mense Martii
Viticulis ornatur in fronte et in ima pagina, insignibus numleri] 5° appositis.
Lignea compactio est, pelle vestita et variis confusioque modis elaborata.
Quorum omnium codicum antiquitas ultra 14. et 15. saeculum, id est ante
Mathaei Corvini aetatem non repetenda mihi videtur. De istis meis conjectationi¬
bus tu ipse videris, cuncta enim tibi et viro eruditissimo lubens permitto.
Ampla nobis est codicum latinorum, tum graecorum praes[...?] pretiosa su¬
pellex. Hos omnes a D[omiJni Boisot liberalitate acceptos tenemus ea conditione
ut publicis juris fierent; utrum ad Bibliothelcam] Budensem pertinuerint igno¬
tum prorsus. Sunt et alia Granvellanae administrationis monumenta quae nunc
eludicare aggred|...?] quae et his forsan ad rem tulam] quae fortassis ad rem
tuam faciunt.
Si sors aequa consiliis majorem copiam Corvinorum codicum objecisset[?] non
fallerem opinionem spemque tuam. De ceteris[?], siquid curae meae opus est ac
diligentia ita providebo ut neque devotus, neque amantior quisquam; denuo sic
existimes, velim qui tibi sum
[The letter is a preliminary draft, the sent version is not known.]
Current provenance: Besancon, Bibliothéque municipale, MS 613, fol. 242r-243v.
61 Marcus Singhmoser (1518/23-1569) was the latin secretary of Emperor Ferdinand I and later the
personal secretary of Emperor Maximilian I, he also maintained good official and scientific relations
with Miklés Olah. Janos ZsAmboky felt obliged to send him a copy of Bonfini’s edition. The uncertainty
in the literature about the origin of the humanist is resolved on the basis of this entry; he was indeed a
Singkhmoser (i.e. not a Swabian) moved from Hall im Tirol to South Tyrol, Juval. Cf. Gross L. 1933,
403-407, Paul MoELLER, Marcus Singhmoser, The Contributions to History by a Secretary of Ferdinand
I. https://paulkarlmoeller.wordpress.com/article/marcus-singkhmoser/; ArmAsı G. 2009, 131-137,
Courtiers of Learning. One of his books made it to Miklos Oläh, then to the Esterhäzy library: Mo¬
NOK-ZvaRA 2020, 102 (Nr. 342.)
62 Joannes Maria Malvetius (Gian Maria Malvezzi, 1554/55), representative of Emperor Ferdinand I in
Constantinople between 1547-1554, died in prison in Komárom. See TÖRÖK P. 1929; NEHRING, hrsg.,
Austro-Turcica 1541-1552, 1995; Papp S. 1999; TATAR 2009; Severt 2015.
3 Csapopt 1973, 208 (Nr. 231) mentiones him as Alphonsus de Gamitz, his identity is unclear.
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