Jókai codex, Koncz codex, Munich codex
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The oldest Hungarian manuscript contains the translation of the legend and miracles of St Francis of Assisi. The translation was made after 1370, the codex is a copy of this made around 1440. Its sources are the Franciscan legends called Actus beati Francisci et sociorum eius (The deeds of St Francis and his friends) and Speculum perfectionis (The Mirror of Perfectness) and St Francis's biography from the Bonaventura. The translation is full of Latinisms, it is difficult to understand, it had been poorly copied, but in spite of these facts the codex is one of the most precious linguistic records of the Hungarians. It was found in the grammar school of Nyitra in 1851, Adolf Ehrenfeld obtained it as a student. First it was named after him, but his descendants sold it at an auction in London in 1925, where the Hungarian state bought it at a very high price. As it was the 100th anniversary of Jókai's birthday the codex got its name after the famous Hungarian writer. It is kept in the National Széchényi Library in Budapest. Its letter-perfect edition is: Jókai codex. Codices Hungarici I. It was published by Hungarian Department of the Royal Hungarian Péter Pázmány University and Hungarian Institute of Stockholm. Budapest, 1942.
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Koncz codex
A Latin codex from the 14th century written on parchment paper. It contains the complete text of the Bible, with the exception of the Psalms of King David. The codex was discovered by Joseph Koncz, a teacher from Marosvásárhely, in 1860. He gave it to the library of the Marosvásárhely College.
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Munich codex
One of the owners of the Munich codex, which was made after 1416 and copied in 1466, might have been Thomas Nádasdy. The codex was brought into the Bavarian Principal libray before 1575. It was discovered in 1834. Today it is kept in Munich, it is in the possession of the Bavarian State Library. It got its name from the place where it is kept. Pál Jászay dealt with it first scientifically, so it is also called Jászay codex. Its letter-perfect edition is: Der Münchener Kodex. Herausgegeben von Julius von Farkas. Wiesbaden, 1958. Todays-letter-perfect edition: A Müncheni -kódex 1466-búl [The Munich codex from 1466]. Edited by Antal Nyíri.Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1971.
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