Ślady funkcjonowania kodeksu z dziełem Nalda Naldiego Epistola de laudibus augustae bibliothecae w Toruniu w XVI–XVIII wieku
Traces of the Codex with Naldo Naldi’s Work Epistola de laudibus augustae bibliothecae in Toruń in the Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to prove the falsity of the thesis formulated in the Depu- ties’ draft resolution which was submitted to the Sejm of the Republic of Poland on 2 February 2022 (No. 2008). The authors of the draft requested that the codex with the work Epistola de laudibus augustae bibliothecae atque libri quatuor versibus scripti eo- dem argumento ad serenissimum Mathiam Corvinum Panoniae regem by Naldo Naldi, written around 1486 and stored in Książnica Kopernikańska in Toruń (ref. 107), to be handed over to Hungary as an expression of ‘gratitude to the Hungarian people’, because the manuscript allegedly ‘has no close connection with Polish history.’Such a claim is false, but to date there has been no study that would link the his- tory of Toruń’s codex to Naldi’s work. Earlier Polish scholars mentioned this document in the context of later works, such as those written by Peter Jaenichen in 1717, or men- tioned only the fact that the work was stored in Książnica Kopernikańska. Hungarian scholars also provide incorrect information claiming that the codex has been in To- ruń since 1684. However, source research has shown close connections of Naldi’s work with Toruń at least from 1594, when the codex found its way to the library of the To- ruń Academic Gymnasium, and at the same time appeared in print edited by Ulrich Schober. Archival research has also shown the presence of Naldi’s work in many texts of Toruń from the late sixteenth and the first half of the eighteenth century, which testifies to its great significance for the city’s inhabitants and the students (including Hungarians) who came to the city.

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