Dubnic Chronicle, Thuróczy chronicle
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A Latin chronicle written at Várad, in the environment of the Drágffy family in 1476. It belongs to the chronicle family of the Buda Chronicle. Its title is Cronica de gestis Hungarorum. Besides the text of the Buda Minorie chronicle afrom the age of Charles it contains the John Küküllei's biogrphy of King Louis with smaller omissions. The author adopted parts from the chronicle of the Unknown Minorite, the fragments of which survived exclusively in this chronicle.
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Thuróczy chronicle
John Thuróczy was born around 1435 in a landowner's family. He was a secular literate man: from 1467 he was a clerk in the office of the country judge, then from 1470 he worked at the credible place of Ság, from 1475 he was a clerk next to the country judge again, and finally in 1486-88 he became the prothonotary to Thomas Drági. With the encouragement of his bosses (Ladislaus Hásságyi and Thomas Drági) he started to write a chronicle. First he wrote the story of Charles (Little) II, using Lawrence Monaci's work as his source, then he rewrote (mainly linguistically) a 14th century chronicle adding John Küküllei's work to it about King Louis I. He treated the events of 1386-1485 separately, and added Master Rogerius's Miserable Song to this text as an appendix. His work, entitled Chronoca Hungarorum, was printed - illustrated with woodcuts - in 1488 in Brünn and Augsburg. (after the Buda Chronicle this was the second historical work about the history of the Hungarians to be printed.) He dedicated the first edition to Thomas Drági and the second edition to King Matthias. Besides Hungarian chronicles he used charters, works of medieval and humanist authors as sources. He also adopted oral traditions: the stories of folk storitellers and folk epic. His manuscript was lost, it is known only from printing. As a source it was significant in preserving smaller historical works (Rogerius, Küküllei).
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