Medieval Hungary: Medieval Manuscripts in Esztergom

From the 11th to the 31st of March, an exhibition offers the medieval manuscripts of the Cathedral Libray of Esztergom. Titled “For They View for Your Souls…” – Codices in the Cathedral Library of Esztergom, the exhibition is on check out in the recently restored exhibition rooms of the Bibliotheca.

The Cathedral Library of Esztergom preserves forty-five medieval manuscript textbooks, which are shown together for the 1st time now, in March 2022. The exhibition honors the archbishops and canons of Esztergom as effectively as the donators and previous house owners of the manuscripts, by whose generosity the library became the greatest collection of codices amongst ecclesiastical libraries of Hungary. The written society of medieval Hungary is represented by fourteen codices copied in various Hungarian scriptoria. Two outdated Hungarian manuscripts – early linguistic data – stand out from among the Latin books on account of their particular worth. The Nagyszombat Codex was well prepared in the monastery of the Very poor Clares in Óbuda. It consists of meditations and guides for penance and confession. The Jordánszky Codex is the most finish medieval Bible translation into Hungarian, and is named following is former proprietor, Elek Jordánszky, a canon of Esztergom. Out of the codices preserved in the Cathedral Library of Esztergom, devoid of a question a few ended up utilized in Esztergom in advance of 1543. These are the 12th-century Expositiones super Cantica Canticorum, László Szalkai’s (1475-1526) schoolbook written by the potential archbishop in between 1489 and 1490, and the codex of vicar-general Albert Pesthy. The manuscript collection owned by the Archbishop and the Chapter of Esztergom was more enriched through the sojourn of the Archbishopric in Nagyszombat (Trnava, Slovakia). Liturgical guides and astronomical is effective ended up acquired, as effectively as a manuscript made up of letters by Saint Gregory the Wonderful, copied in the Benedictine Abbey of Moissac in the 11th century. In 1555, Nicholaus Olah )1493-1568), archbishop of Esztergom, donated the two-volume Bakócs Gradual to the church of Esztergom The deluxe Wladislav Gradual originates from Prague from the very first 10 years of the 16th century. It holds Bohemian musical materials, richly illuminated with historiated initials as effectively as border decorations with floral motifs, animal figures, and scenes from each day everyday living.