Chronica de gestis Hungarorum e codice picto saec. XIV. / Chronicle of the Deeds of the Hungarians from the Fourteenth-Century Illuminated Codex

484 Pages·2018·16.539 MB·English, Latin

by  János M. Bak, László Veszprémy (eds., transl.)

CHRONICA DE GESTIS HUNGARORUM
E CODICE PICTO SAEC. XIV.
CHRONICLE OF THE DEEDS OF THE
HUNGARIANS FROM THE FOURTEENTH-
CENTURY ILLUMINATED CODEX
CENTRAL EUROPEAN MEDIEVAL TEXTS
VOLUME 9
General Editors
PATRICK GEARY
GERHARD JARITZ
GÁBOR KLANICZAY
PAVLÍNA RYCHTEROVÁ
Series Editor
FRANK SCHAER
CHRONICA DE GESTIS HUNGARORUM
E CODICE PICTO SAEC. XIV.
CHRONICLE OF THE DEEDS OF
THE HUNGARIANS FROM THE
FOURTEENTH-CENTURY ILLUMINATED
CODEX
Edited and translated by
János M. Bak and László Veszprémy
with a Preface by Norbert Kersken
Central European University Press
Budapest–New York
National Széchényi Library
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English translation © 2018 by János M. Bak, László Veszprémy
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ISBN 978-963-386-264-3 Cloth
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CONTENTS
General Editors’ Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VII
The Chronicle of the Deeds of the Hungarians in European
Context (Norbert Kersken) .................................... IX
Abbreviations ................................................... XXV
Abbreviations and signs in text and annotations .......... XXVI
Titles cited in abbreviation ................................. XXVII
List of illustrations and tables ............................... XXIX
Annotated list of miniatures and medallions ............ XXIX
Editors’ Preface ........................................ XXXIX
CHRONICA DE GESTIS HUNGARORUM .............. 2
CHRONICLE OF THE DEEDS OF THE HUNGARIANS 3
APPENDIX ..................................................... 380
Select Bibliography ............................................. 385
Index of Names of Persons, Kindreds and Peoples ........... 409
Index of Geographical Names .................................. 421
Gazetteer for Geographical Names ............................ 427

GENERAL EDITORS’ PREFACE
We publish the present volume, containing the most extensive com-
pilation of historical traditions of the medieval kingdom of Hun-
gary in cooperation with the National Széchényi Library, keeper of
the Illuminated Chronicle on the text of which it is based.
Considering the size of the text and translation, together
with the reproduction of the miniatures—and the extensive litera-
ture about text and images—it was not possible to include the usu-
al introduction on manuscripts, authors, style, and so on into the
same volume. Therefore, the General Editors are also publishing
an accompanying volume, Studies to the Illuminated Chronicle as
CEMT Subsidia 1, with eight essays on relevant issues. The present
volume has only a minimal Introduction and a Preface by Norbert
Kersken, well-known student of “national chronicles” of medieval
Central Europe.
With the two earlier Gesta, those of Anonymus (CEMT 5)
and of Simon of Kéza (CEMT 1) as well as the hagiographic liter-
ature in the two volumes edited by Gábor Klaniczay (CEMT 6-7),
we made thus available in bi-lingual editions all the major works of
medieval historiography in Hungary, written before the Humanist
histories of the fifteenth—sixteenth centuries
The General Editors are grateful for the cooperation of the
National Széchényi Library and all the participants in the prepa-
ration of this volume, quite particularly to the team of the CEU
Press for having managed the rather difficult process of the pro-
duction.
P. G.—G. J.—G. K.—P. R.
[VII]
Title page of IC. (OSzK Cod. lat. 404, p. 1)