The sermon collection of György Enyedi (1555–1597), the third bishop of the Unitarian Church, is ... more The sermon collection of György Enyedi (1555–1597), the third bishop of the Unitarian Church, is an especially large corpus representing a unique handwritten textual tradition. During the almost one hundred years of active copying, a large amount of its variants were issued. Today we mostly know copies of triacases (thirty or thirty-three sermons in one block) or selected sermons in mixed collections. They can be easily identified by the copyists’ or users’ notes. Also, even if there are damages and disorders in the structure, the beginning and the ending of the texts – without taking notice of the regular variability of synonyms or word order – are comparable and can help in identifying unnumbered and unmarked texts. In my paper I wish to introduce four new sermon variants. They can be found in Contiones vetustissimae (Romania, Cluj Napoca, Academia III., MS.U. 262.), a Unitarian codex with mixed content. Until now the first part of it, a collection of sermons in Hungarian language...
Seventeenth-eighteenth century marginalia from Ban Micz to the Szekler script
The funeral sermon... more Seventeenth-eighteenth century marginalia from Ban Micz to the Szekler script
The funeral sermons of Zsuzsanna Károlyi, the first wife of Gabriel Bethlen, Prince of Transylvania, delivered at the monumental, lengthy funeral procession on several locations and preached by the leading Calvinist pastors, were published in two volumes in 1624, the Exequiarum Coeremonialium, and the Exequiae Principales, az az Halotti pompa. There has been a growing scholarly interest towards these collections, especially the latter with its nineteen funeral sermons, written in Hungarian. To contribute to the research on the funeral sermons, this paper aims at presenting the book preserved copies of the book and the notes, glosses, and marginalia found in them. The volumes typically contain underlining, marginal notes, and highlighting, with some longer structured notes and textual arrangements. Besides the introduction of
all the known thirty-two copies and fragments, there are two chapters where the authors give a lengthy analysis of the most remarkable notes. The first one is the ‘Micz bán’ (Ban Micz) legend within the sermon of Péter Alvinczi in one of the most valuable volumes, formerly owned
by Gabriel Bethlen. The paper also offers a lengthy analysis of a copy of the Ráth-collection held today in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. It preserves a real rarity on the inner side of the front cover’s binding board. A short inscription written in Székely (Szekler) script contains the first line of the funeral song entitled A halálra való emlékeztetés [‘Reminder of death’], a poem attributed to the early protestant poet András Batizi. The analysis discusses the possible source of the characters and the inscription’s context of cultural history. The sermon collection itself is a unique source to study and understand the 17th-century textual tradition better. With the help of the notes found in each copy, we can have a wider view of its readers, users, owners, supplementing the literary history of early modern funeral sermons.
The sermon collection of György Enyedi (1555–1597), the third bishop of the Unitarian Church, is ... more The sermon collection of György Enyedi (1555–1597), the third bishop of the Unitarian Church, is an especially large corpus representing a unique handwritten textual tradition. During the almost one hundred years of active copying, a large amount of its variants were issued. Today we mostly know copies of triacases (thirty or thirty-three sermons in one block) or selected sermons in mixed collections. They can be easily identified by the copyists’ or users’ notes. Also, even if there are damages and disorders in the structure, the beginning and the ending of the texts – without taking notice of the regular variability of synonyms or word order – are comparable and can help in identifying unnumbered and unmarked texts. In my paper I wish to introduce four new sermon variants. They can be found in Contiones vetustissimae (Romania, Cluj Napoca, Academia III., MS.U. 262.), a Unitarian codex with mixed content. Until now the first part of it, a collection of sermons in Hungarian language...
Seventeenth-eighteenth century marginalia from Ban Micz to the Szekler script
The funeral sermon... more Seventeenth-eighteenth century marginalia from Ban Micz to the Szekler script
The funeral sermons of Zsuzsanna Károlyi, the first wife of Gabriel Bethlen, Prince of Transylvania, delivered at the monumental, lengthy funeral procession on several locations and preached by the leading Calvinist pastors, were published in two volumes in 1624, the Exequiarum Coeremonialium, and the Exequiae Principales, az az Halotti pompa. There has been a growing scholarly interest towards these collections, especially the latter with its nineteen funeral sermons, written in Hungarian. To contribute to the research on the funeral sermons, this paper aims at presenting the book preserved copies of the book and the notes, glosses, and marginalia found in them. The volumes typically contain underlining, marginal notes, and highlighting, with some longer structured notes and textual arrangements. Besides the introduction of
all the known thirty-two copies and fragments, there are two chapters where the authors give a lengthy analysis of the most remarkable notes. The first one is the ‘Micz bán’ (Ban Micz) legend within the sermon of Péter Alvinczi in one of the most valuable volumes, formerly owned
by Gabriel Bethlen. The paper also offers a lengthy analysis of a copy of the Ráth-collection held today in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. It preserves a real rarity on the inner side of the front cover’s binding board. A short inscription written in Székely (Szekler) script contains the first line of the funeral song entitled A halálra való emlékeztetés [‘Reminder of death’], a poem attributed to the early protestant poet András Batizi. The analysis discusses the possible source of the characters and the inscription’s context of cultural history. The sermon collection itself is a unique source to study and understand the 17th-century textual tradition better. With the help of the notes found in each copy, we can have a wider view of its readers, users, owners, supplementing the literary history of early modern funeral sermons.
Enyedi György prédikációi az utóbbi évtizedekben újra nagyobb figyelmet kaptak, ám a teljes szöve... more Enyedi György prédikációi az utóbbi évtizedekben újra nagyobb figyelmet kaptak, ám a teljes szövegegyüttest vizsgáló tanulmányok száma csekély. Nem csupán azért érdekes e prédikációgyűjtemény, mert a 16. század végén született, s a 17. század szinte végéig kéziratos formában másolódott, hanem azért is, mert nem tudjuk pontosan meghatározni, hogy mi és milyen mértékben a szerző munkája. A kompiláció kérdéskörébe tartozó, a korpuszra vonatkozó vizsgálatok szintén igen hiányosak. Bár az utóbbi években számos tanulmány és könyv született a 16. és 17. századi prédikációirodalom kompilált beszédeinek kérdéskörében, ám, ahogy általában a prédikációkutatás területén, ezen a téren is a nyomtatott beszédgyűjtemények kerültek előtérbe. Ez azonban nem véletlen. A továbbiakban azokra a kérdésekre keresem a választ, hogy hogyan húzható meg a másolás és a kompiláció közötti választóvonal egy olyan szerző munkája esetében, akinek nyomtatott formában sosem jelentek meg prédikációi, ezen felül sem szerzői kézirat, sem az igazolhatóan abból változatás nélkül készült másolat nem áll rendelkezésünkre, hogyan értelmezetjük a másolók által való kompilálásokat a struktúrán belül és kívül és mit mutatnak meg e részletek a 17. századi aktív prédikátori gyakorlatból és a szövegörökítés stratégiáiból.
Constructing Memory in Pre-modern East Central and Southeast Europe: Creation, Transformation, an... more Constructing Memory in Pre-modern East Central and Southeast Europe: Creation, Transformation, and Oblivion, Workshop, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.
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The funeral sermons of Zsuzsanna Károlyi, the first wife of Gabriel Bethlen, Prince of Transylvania, delivered at the monumental, lengthy funeral procession on several locations and preached by the leading Calvinist pastors, were published in two volumes in 1624, the Exequiarum Coeremonialium, and the Exequiae Principales, az az Halotti pompa. There has been a growing scholarly interest towards these collections, especially the latter with its nineteen funeral sermons, written in Hungarian. To contribute to the research on the funeral sermons, this paper aims at presenting the book preserved copies of the book and the notes, glosses, and marginalia found in them. The volumes typically contain underlining, marginal notes, and highlighting, with some longer structured notes and textual arrangements. Besides the introduction of
all the known thirty-two copies and fragments, there are two chapters where the authors give a lengthy analysis of the most remarkable notes. The first one is the ‘Micz bán’ (Ban Micz) legend within the sermon of Péter Alvinczi in one of the most valuable volumes, formerly owned
by Gabriel Bethlen. The paper also offers a lengthy analysis of a copy of the Ráth-collection held today in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. It preserves a real rarity on the inner side of the front cover’s binding board. A short inscription written in Székely (Szekler) script contains the first line of the funeral song entitled A halálra való emlékeztetés [‘Reminder of death’], a poem attributed to the early protestant poet András Batizi. The analysis discusses the possible source of the characters and the inscription’s context of cultural history. The sermon collection itself is a unique source to study and understand the 17th-century textual tradition better. With the help of the notes found in each copy, we can have a wider view of its readers, users, owners, supplementing the literary history of early modern funeral sermons.
The funeral sermons of Zsuzsanna Károlyi, the first wife of Gabriel Bethlen, Prince of Transylvania, delivered at the monumental, lengthy funeral procession on several locations and preached by the leading Calvinist pastors, were published in two volumes in 1624, the Exequiarum Coeremonialium, and the Exequiae Principales, az az Halotti pompa. There has been a growing scholarly interest towards these collections, especially the latter with its nineteen funeral sermons, written in Hungarian. To contribute to the research on the funeral sermons, this paper aims at presenting the book preserved copies of the book and the notes, glosses, and marginalia found in them. The volumes typically contain underlining, marginal notes, and highlighting, with some longer structured notes and textual arrangements. Besides the introduction of
all the known thirty-two copies and fragments, there are two chapters where the authors give a lengthy analysis of the most remarkable notes. The first one is the ‘Micz bán’ (Ban Micz) legend within the sermon of Péter Alvinczi in one of the most valuable volumes, formerly owned
by Gabriel Bethlen. The paper also offers a lengthy analysis of a copy of the Ráth-collection held today in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. It preserves a real rarity on the inner side of the front cover’s binding board. A short inscription written in Székely (Szekler) script contains the first line of the funeral song entitled A halálra való emlékeztetés [‘Reminder of death’], a poem attributed to the early protestant poet András Batizi. The analysis discusses the possible source of the characters and the inscription’s context of cultural history. The sermon collection itself is a unique source to study and understand the 17th-century textual tradition better. With the help of the notes found in each copy, we can have a wider view of its readers, users, owners, supplementing the literary history of early modern funeral sermons.