The Glosses of Nagyváty, Guary codex, Döbrentei codex, Nádor codex
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The glosses made around 1490 were found by a linguist, Peter Király, in the library of the chapter of Szepeshely (Spisská Kapitula, Slovakia). The owner of the codex which contained the glosses may have been Imre Nagyvátyi.
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Guary codex (around 1490)
The codex, copied around 1490, was taken from the convent of the Poor Clares of Óbuda to Pozsony (Bratislava) in the 16th century, then it was taken back to Buda again in the 18th century. Later it came into the possession of Micheal Guary, a landowner from the county of Vas. Since 1835 it has been kept in the library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. It derived its name from its later owner.
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Döbrentei codex
Its content is also mixed; it was copied by a priest called Bartholomew Halábori in 1494. It contains 150 psalms with hymns and canticums, a mass lectionarium for the whole year, the Song of Songs and some chapters from the Book of Job. It was named after Gabriel Döbrentei. It is in the possession of the Batthány Library of Gyulafehérvár. Edition: Döbrentei codex 1508. Edited by Csilla Abaffy and Csilla T. Szabó. Budapest, 1995. (Old Hungarian Codices 19.)
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Nádor codex (1508)
The codex copied in 1508 was in the possession of the Poor Clares of Pozsony (Bratislava) in the 17th century. After closing down the monastery, at the end of the 18th century, it came into the possession of Michael Winkler, the canon of Pécs, together with other manuscripts. He gave it to the Budapest University Library. The book was given the name Nádor in honour of palatine Joseph, who governed for more than 50 years.
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