Medieval Hungary: Medieval Manuscripts in Esztergom
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From the 11th to the 31st of March, an exhibition offers the medieval manuscripts of the Cathedral Libray of Esztergom. Titled “For They Watch for Your Souls…” – Codices in the Cathedral Library of Esztergom, the exhibition is on perspective in the recently restored exhibition rooms of the Bibliotheca.
Following the library moved back to Esztergom in 1853, János Scitovszky (1785-1866), archbishop of Esztergom, József Dankó and Nándor Knauz, canons of Esztergom every single bequeathed four codices to the selection. Amid these, there was a 12th-century cathedral schoolbook containing a commentary of the Track of Songs among other texts, and many manuscripts of Bohemian origin.
Most codices in the library originated and were utilized in Central Europe, in Bohemia, Vienna, and Southern Germany. Even so, some of the manuscripts came from the English, Italian, and French territories. The decoration of Peter Lombard’s commentary on the Psalms is a superior-excellent solution of English miniature portray. The exhibited manuscripts current a vast array of medieval ecclesiastical literature encompassing guides on liturgy, theology, church regulation, astronomy, lexicography, as properly as sermon collections, prayer guides, and schoolbooks.
The exhibition coincides with the publication of a catalog describing with terrific erudition the medieval manuscripts preserved in the Esztergom ebook collections (The Codices of the Cathedral Library of Esztergom, the Archiepiscopal Simor Library, and the Esztergom City Library). The guide was edited by Edit Madas and penned by Kinga Körmendy, Judit Lauf, Edit Madas, and Gábor Sarbak. Kinga Körmendy’s extensive introduction offers the background of the collections and the specific descriptions are accompanied by several indices, appendices, a bibliography, and colour plates. The reserve is the most the latest volume of the Fragmenta et codices in bibliothecis Hungariae series. The ebook can be purchased in this article: [email protected]. A German-language model of the catalog is forthcoming.
(Text and pics by the Cathedral Library of Esztergom)
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