Bulletin 2008 [antikvár]

A STAR IN THE RAVEN'S SHADOW * The National Széchényi Library's exhibition in the framework of the Renaissance Year had the beginnings of Hungarian humanism in its focus, concentrating on the personality, library and cultural activity of János Vitéz. Hungarian scholarship unanimously agrees that Vitéz is the "father of Hungarian humanism". Without his life work, the beginning of the process that might be called Hungarian High Renaissance cannot be interpreted. In other words, the classical humanist education, book culture and Renaissance courtly and scientific life of the second half of the 15th century would be impossible to understand without him. By introducing his scattered library, Hungarian book history and humanism research has filled an old gap. Thanks to foreign loans, this was the first time that such a large number of Vitéz's own codices have been on joint display. A narrow community of scholars had last seen some of them in 1876 at the Literary Exhibition of the National Museum's Széchényi Library, as the anonymous reporter (who may have been Vilmos Fraknói or János Csontosi) recounted on the pages of Magyar Könyvszemle [Hungarian Book Review]. The names of Fraknói and Csontosi feature at the head of any publication on Vitéz not merely as a tribute to them. The 1879 monograph by the scholarly high priest Fraknói is still Vitéz's most comprehensive biography, which may have been modified by micro-research, but its accomplishments have never been challenged. On the contrary, historical tradition now accepts some of the assumptions that Fraknói was unable to conclusively prove. The general public does not know that the 550 anniversary of King Matthias's enthronement coincides with the 600^ anniversary of János Vitéz's birth in 1408. Anyhow, that is what Fraknói's monograph asserts, although without providing any reference to confirm his conjecture. It has to be admitted though that neither has any data surfaced to refute the hypothesis. No one has done more for introducing Vitéz's codices that for centuries were thought to be lost than the little known János Csontosi. Until the last third of the 19^ century the world knew nothing about Vitéz's library. While private scholars had started collecting the remains of the most significant Hungarian Renaissance library, the Bibliotheca Corviniana, as early as the 16th century, and from the 17th century onwards politicians' interest and attention repeatedly turned towards it as well, it was only in the 1870s that research started to recognise Vitéz's codices. That is the time when remains of the scholar's collection were identified in foreign collections. Besides Fraknoi, we owe most to Jânos Csontosi, the codicologist of the Széchényi Library. János Vitéz's notes in the Victorinus Codex The exhibition's title A Star in the Raven's Shadow intended to reflect the image fixed in Hungarian cultural history and embraced especially by the general public associating the late 15^ century modern classical humanist culture almost exclusively with King Matthias. János Vitéz with the star in his crest, the personality that scholarly consensus attributes the beginnings of IS1'1 century cultural switch to, always and in every sense stayed in the king's shadow. Since the end of the 15^ century, historical memory has regarded Matthias's reign as the country's golden age, and in tense historical situations, especially since the decades following the Battle of mumr-ucma wuua as non una- cancwyxmn ci^d iccirn nu( nimticmf hoc cfb ej Jifpvfíia dteitffl fif-auf immMinf emf ?uitftmiltOuiimf- aur âdcékxtioniC'Mit Amfitfiaitumif á- ¦ ¦ icrciű çrmif namtmlt eft--ejeteL omtumfifchoceft-qctdit- mno Kcm-'H?i «i.ilil»nu$ turn acMiUl?cuiiî(/eft ant-^octAíí, nethidono^ho^cdittn brr Lc>i"Tí.i* î>iii>'' cuWlm ?L'tn banc nanationr preptayH« inaf narratto nr> moti d ciutltb* ciiilifi duo memo ht/tum Airt^pëneçoeupc tfji^^fff yonendj. iumir^i'cfhcomeaw^hoy. uel mgediafpbomm. ' ^"""ffjf^XX?Ct '!ucr^lUcL ucm in «Mua; uerfantur* na vingdP enefâô moref jerr«n ^f"^ A'-faâa 4efcai>itjf bfc iumm oratoréímáuo cjiuuJi tur. m ncypcuLetmpforififl-Vey. il la namtt'o cj tn nemex ^ '

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Cím: Bulletin 2008 [antikvár]

Kiadó: Bibliotheca Nationalis Hungariae

Kötés: Ragasztott papírkötés

Méret: 210 mm x 300 mm

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