Book of Parables, Cornides codex, Dominican codex, Horváth codex
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This collection of parables was copied by Lea Ráskay and two of her colleagues in the Dominican nunnery on the Island of Hares in 1510. The parables are grouped according to their contents. Their Latin source was Johannes Herolt's collection called Promptuarium exemplorum, and these are supplemented with an adventurous parable about the monks who were lazy during the office. The related text of this parable can be read in the Érsekújvár codex and the Nagyszombat codex. Besides the Ten Commandments in verse and a spritual mirror it contains the translations of the Dialogue of Life and Death and Petrus de Rosemheim's death dance hymn, Vado mori. During the 17-18th centuries it was in the possession of the Poor Clares of Pozsony (Bratislava), who had it bound together with the Cornides codex and several other linguistic pieces. At the beginning of the 19th century it came into the possession of the Budapest University Library, where Francis Toldi had the different parts separated. Edition: Book of Parables 1510. Imitation, transcription of the original letters and its Latin equivalent. Edited by Andrew Bognár and Francis Levárdy. Budapest, 1960. (Codices Hungarici 4.)
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Cornides codex
This is a collection of sermons and legends in Hungarian, which was copied by Lea Ráskay in the Dominican nunnery of the Island of Hares (Margaret Island) between 1514-1519. The codex provides readings for 26 occasions, the most important feasts of the ecclesiastic year and celebrations of women saints. The source of the sermons were the collections of sermons of Pelbárt Temesvári, Johannes Herolt (Discipulus) and Paratus, and the source of the legends was the Legenda aurea. The Poor Clares of Pozsony (Bratislava) was joined with the Cornides codex and many other codices in the 17th century. This combined book came into the possession of the University Library of Budapest in the 19th century. Francis Toldi had its parts separated by giving each of them a name. Edition: Cornides codex. Imitation, transcription of the original letters and its Latin equivalent. Edited by András Bognár and Ferenc Levárdy. Budapest, 1967. (Codices Hungarici 6.)
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Dominican codex
The codex about St Dominic's life and miracles was copied by Lea Ráskay in the nunnery on the Island of Hares in 1517. The main source of the legend were the Chronicle of Antonine, Archbishop of Florence and Gerardus de Francheto's Vitae Fratum Ordinis Praedicatorum. Five of the miracles have links with Hungary. In the 17-18th centuries the codex was in the possession of the Poor Clares of Pozsony (Bratislava), and it reached the hands of the Bishop of Besztercebánya, Gabriel Szerdahelyi with the help of one of the nuns, and from Szerdahelyi it went to the library of the National Museum as the present of the chapter. Edition: Dominican codex 1517. Edited by Gyöngyi Komlóssy. Budapest 1990. (Old Hungarian Codices 11.)
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Horváth codex
It was copied by Lea Ráskay in the Dominican nunnery on the Island of Hares (Margaret Island) in 1522. It contains two sermons and instructions to the novices. The source of sermons, which are about Christ's incarnation and Mary's death, was the Stellarium of Pelbárt Temesvári, the source of the instructions was the first part of David Augsburg's Formula novitiorum. The manuscript was bought by the National Museum from Michael Jankovich's collection in 1836. Today it is kept in the National Széchényi Library, Budapest. Edition: Horváth codex 1522. Edited by Lea Haader and Zsuzsanna Papp. Budapest, 1994. (Old Hungarian Codices 17).
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