Zsigmondkori oklevéltár, vol. III (1411-12) by Elemér Mályusz; I. BorsaReview by: Martyn RadyThe Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 72, No. 3 (Jul., 1994), p. 533Published by: the Modern Humanities Research Association and University College London, School ofSlavonic and East European StudiesStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4211586 .

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Mailyusz, Elemer. Zsigmondkori okleve'lta'r, vol. III (I 41 I-I 2). Edited by I. Borsa. A Magyar Orszagos Leveltair Kiadvainyai. Series II. Akademiai kiado, Budapest, 1993. 869 pp. Bibliography. Index. FT 2,500.00.

THE first two volumes of Elemer Malyusz's Zsigmondkori okleveltar were pub- lished in three parts in I95I, I 956 and 1958 and cover the period 1387 to 14I0. Following a plan originally put forward by Laszlo Fejerpataky in I 889, the late Elemer Malyusz intended to provide a register of all charters issued in Hungary during the reign of King Sigismund (I 387-I437). Since about so,ooo such pieces have survived from Sigismund's reign, it is hardly surprising that their editing should have exceeded the lifetime of a single scholar. The present work, which is a refined version of a manuscript completed by Malyusz, contains more than 3,ooo entries and takes Sigismund's reign from January I 4 I I to December I 412. A fourth volume, extending to I 4 I 4, is promised shortly. Although some work on the period I 420-30 has been completed, Ivain Borsa, the editor of the present volume, admits that it is 'not possible to predict how many volumes the Zsigmondkori okleviltar will run to when the last, up to 9 December I437, is reached' (p. 9).

Ivain Borsa has retained in the third volume the critical apparatus which has made its predecessors such an indispensable aid to scholarship. The index exceeds I 30 pages and each register entry is followed by a description of the document, its present location and bibliographical references. The entries, however, are fuller than those in the preceding volumes. Whereas Malyusz tended to trim his entries omitting that which he considered to be less relevant to the study of medieval Hungarian society, Borsa includes noble genealogies, the names of dignitaries as they appear on royal privileges, and a more complete description of the location of properties. School of Slavonic and East European Studies MARTYN RADY University ofLondon

Nddasdy Mausoleum. Mausoleum potentissimorum ac gloriosissimorum Regni Apostolici regum et primorum militantis Ungariae ducum. Norimbergae. I664. Facsimile edition edited by P. Koszegy. Bibliotheca Hungarica Antiqua, vol. xxiv. Akademiai kiado, Budapest, I99I. 413 pp. Hungarian-language and German-language explanatory notes bound separately. I6 pp. each. ?57.00.

THE Nddasdy Mausoleum consists of dedications in the manner of epitaphs to fifty-nine Hungarian kings and princes, from the mythical Keve of the Huns to Ferdinand IV. The dedications were first composed in Latin by Nicolas Avancini and then put into a parallel German text by Sigismund von Birken. Accompanying the text are engraved portraits which were originally intended to illustrate a three-volume history of Hungary. The commissioning of the Mausoleum was undertaken by Ferenc Nadasdy (i623-7I), who also wrote a short preface to the work.

Although the dedications in the Mausoleum served as a source for historians in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the engravings are still frequently used as illustrations, the Mausoleum was not intended as a work of

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