Apor codex, Vienna cod., cod. of the Gyulafehérvár lines
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A codex translated after 1416 and copied at the end of the 15th century - beginning of the 16th century. It belonged to the Premontrean nuns since the 20s of the 16th century. Escaping from the Turks, they took it Pozsony or Nagyszombat. The codex got into the possession of the Apor family around 1700, so it got its name from them. It is an incomplete manuscript, many of its pages were lost. Now it is kept in the Székely National Museum of Sepsiszentgyörgy. It was reedited: Apor codex, Codices Hungarici II. It was published (in a similar version to the original) by Dénes Szabó at Kolozsvár in 1942, and the introduction was also written by him.
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Vienna codex
The Vienna codex, which was translated after 1416 and copied around 1450, got into the library of the Vienna royal court not long before 1723. It got its name from the place where it was found. Since 1932 it has been kept in the manuscript collection of the National Széchényi Library (Budapest). It was examined scientifically first by Michael Révai, so it is also called Révai codex. Its newest letter-perfect edition (together with the original Latin version) was published by Gedeon Mészöly in 1916 as a volume of Új Nyelvemléktár [New Collection of Linguistic Records] I.
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The codex of the Gyulafehérvár lines
The codex that contains the third oldest unbroken Hungarian linguistic record, the Gyulafehérvár lines, may have been made around 1320 in the church district of Veszprém, presumaby at Székesfehérvár as shown by the Franciscan charter samples in it. The codex is a reference book for preaching, with essays on virtues, sins and repentance besides the 13th-century Parisian Franciscans'drafts of preachings. The original copy was brought to Hungary by Franciscans who studied in Paris. This was soon copied and restructured according to local requirements. The codex shows how fast the newest materials from the University of Paris reached the furthest away regions. The manuscript is kept in the Batthyány Library of Gyulafehérvár.
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