PUBLISHING

Janus Pannonius:

Sylva Panegyrica ad Guarinum... (1518)

After lots of planning and trials, on October 21, 2008 we published the facsimile of the 1518 "Janus Pannonius: Sylva Panegyrica ad Guarinum Veronensem... Janus Pannonius bishop of Pécs laudatory song to his Veronian master, Guarino" commissioned by the bishop of Pécs for the re-burial of Janus Pannonius. We had to use a bit of a work around since the original cover was missing. We used a contemporary renaissance book's cover from the Klimó Library in Pécs to take its place.

Pécsi Missale (1499)

For the millennial anniversary of Pécs Diocese, we published the facsimile of Missale Pécs first published in 1499.There are only four existing copies of this rarety, unfortunately, all of them incomplete. Luckily with the generous help of the Hungarian National Library, we were able to publish the Missale in its complete form. We take pride in the fact that two of our publications can be found in the personal libraries of Pope Benedict XVI and the president of the Hungarian Republic.At the most prestigious printing competition Pro Typographia this publication was awarded the gold medal being rated 9.9 out of 10.

Published in 2009.

Budapesti Concordantiae caritatis

The Concordantiae caritatis of Budapest is the most richly illustrated written document in Hungary from the Middle Ages. The piece contains the 14th century author's, Ulrich von Lilienfeld's, work who between 1345 and 1351 was the abbot of the South-Austrian Lilienfeld cloister of Ciszterc.

Our publication has significant meaning from a cultural history and an art history perspective; in narrow, professional circles, it used to be inaccessible, outside of professional circles, the priorly unknown work can now be a public resource.

Published in 2011.

Nyújtódi/Udvarhelyi kódex (1526-28)

On November 10, 2019 the facsimile was published for the 425th anniversary of the founding of Tamási Áron High School in Székelyudvarhely commissioned by the Hungarian Research Institute for National Strategy.

It is the most valuable book of Tamási Áron High School as well as Székelyudvarhely.

The multi-subject, Franciscan codex was written for nuns. Five separately used volumes were combined in the making of the final piece.

From the personal tone of the afterword, we can conclude the Franciscan monk András Nyújtódi who was from Szeklerland translated and copied the work in 1526 for his younger sister who was a nun named Judit, so that she would not be in her cell without her saint's book. With the remonstrances and interjected, short explanatory comments aimed at nuns, both works have many idiosyncratic, independent elements in their own right.

Based on the resin, the Codex's originally separate second part (p. 233-312) was made in Tövis in 1528. Its owner and probably its transcriber was Judit Nyújtódi as well.

The Codex was first owned by Judit Nyújtódi as evidenced by the resin of the first two volumes. The Codex's mid 16th century Central-Transylvanian, renaissance, leather binding proves that the individual volumes were bound together in the mid 16th century. The fate of the document is unknown after the 16th century. Imre Lukinich speculates that based on the pen drawing of Jesus and Mary pasted on to the flyleaf of the back of the first binding that the volume had once belonged to the Jesuit boarding school in Székelyudvarhely. Based on comments by Daniel Fancsali, the parish priest of Gyergyószentmiklós and later teacher and principal of the boarding school in Székelyudvarhely, it is certain that in 1810 the Codex was in his possession, and it was from him that the volume arrived at the Catholic high school's library in Székelyudvarhely. It was discovered here in 1876 by Sámuel Szabó, a protestant boarding school teacher from Kolozsvár.

Published in 2018.

Album Gymnasii Udvarhely (1689)

Tamási Áron High School in Székelyudvarhely celebrated its 425th anniversary in November of 2018. The Codex of Nyújtód and the Album Gymnasii were published together for this event.

The Album Gymnasii is a valuable record of the high school's old history. It contains the yearly record of the names of all the teachers and the students from 1689 to first semester of the 1831-32 school year.

They started writing the album in 1689 when the high school's principal was Mihály Szárhegyi and its teachers included László Majthényi and János Adorján. It's impressive to see how such care and consistency and even love went into annually keeping up the album by the students with the best handwriting (with the small exception of the years 1704-1706 during which the kuruc wars took place). The visually delightful and meticulously drawn pages display the students' creative imagination.

So why is this bulky, book-shaped album that is a school document, or should we say time capsule, valuable?

Firstly, it provides an accurate data of the student population in a given time. As witnessed through the album, the high school in 1689 had 73 students in its top 4 classes and 125 students all together. Over the years, the student attendance would drastically fluctuate reaching its peak attendances in the years 1743 (228 students), 1752 (213 students), 1759 (206 students), and 1767 (215 students). In other years the attendance was roughly around 100.

The album also informs us of the structure of the high school in a given period.

As a result of the educational work and upbringing, the school has produced several notable alumni that went on to give positive contributions to society. Some alumni have academic contributions while others have contributions to literature. Some include Dávid Szabó, who founded a school of literature, Balázs Orbán, a scholar in geography and ethnography, Áron Tamási and Sándor Tomcsa, who are both authors, and Ferenc Szemlér, who completed his first two years of high school here and went on to be a poet.

Published in 2018.