Researcher's name
Sarbak Gábor – HUN-REN-OSZK Fragmenta et Codices Kutatócsoport vezetője
Amount of support
32 952 640 Ft
Brief description of the research
The research group focuses on the comprehensive examination of the literacy and cultural history of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary. The group was founded in 1974 by László Mezey. The initial aim was to gather together and analyze the fragments of codices preserved in Hungarian collections, but the work was later extended to include the analysis of complete codices. Since the year 2000, the host institution for the group has been the National Széchényi Library.
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The research group is the only one in Hungary that carries out systematic research on manuscripts and codex fragments of all categories utilizing the methodologies of palaeography, codicology and art history. Its results are published in the catalogue series Fragmenta et Codices in Bibliothecis Hungariae. The research group has set up a trilingual codex fragment database (Databularium fragmentorum), whose user interface is under development. The codices in the Hungarian language are of particular importance among the medieval manuscripts, and these are made available at the Magyar Nyelvemlékek website (Early Hungarian-Language Texts); the scholarly background for these is also provided by the research group.
Since 2000, our research group has also been engaged in research on the Corvinian Library (such work has intensified at the National Széchényi Library since 2000),. In addition to pertinent descriptions and studies, the library gathers books deriving from the Corvinian Library that are preserved across the globe and makes these available to the general public via the Bibiliotheca Corvina Virtualis website .
The results of the manuscript research are published by the group members in national and international conference papers and studies, as well as in the form of catalogues of the codices, and are presented at academic conferences and similar events. Further information is available on the research group’s website: https://www.fragmenta.oszk.hu/index_en.htm; on the Corvina website: https://corvina.hu/en/front/, and on the early Hungarian-Tanguage Texts website (only in Hungarian): http://nyelvemlekek.oszk.hu/
