John Magyi, Nicolaus de Mirabilibus, Gabriel Pécsváradi
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He was a clerk in Buda and in 1476 was authorised by the emperor, and in 1490 by the Pope. He compiled a collection of charter samples, incuding some 500 samples, between 1468 and 1493. It was called 'Stylus curiae regiae'. He translated a lot of Latin technical terms into Hungarian, and added glosses in the margins. He even included a 4-line verse, recording a law, in his chronicle, which was one of the oldest verse memories of Hungarian literature.
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Nicolaus de Mirabilibus
He was born in Kolozsvár, joined the Dominican order in Kassa and then, in 1476 became the member of the convent of Kolozsvár. In 1478 he studied at the Dominican College of Buda, and between 1482 and 1484 at the university of Padua, where he gained a masters's degree. Between 1484 and 1489 he taught at colleges in Siena and Florence, and from 1494 he became the superior of the order in Hungary. He died after 1508. He wrote an essay about the conscious in Italian, a Latin theological work about predestination ('De praedestinatione'), and a dispute - which was held in 1489 in Florence before Lorenzo Medici ('Disputatio nuper facta in domo magnifici Laurentii Medices') has also survived.
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Gabriel (Gábor) Pécsváradi
Two sources mention him: the Franciscan collection of letter samples and the chronicle of the observant order. Concluding from his name he must have been born in Pécsvárad, in the county of Baranya. He became the governor of the Observant order several times (1509-1513, 1523-1529). In 1523 at the general assembly in Burgos, Spain, he encouraged the canonization of St John of Capistrano. Between 1514 and 1517 he took part in a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. His 'Compendiosa descriptio' was published in Vienna in 1519, and its second edition came out in 1520 with the help of Michael Farnádi.
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