Reformátorok saját kezű levelei Szenci Molnár Albert gyűjteményében
Autograph Letters of Important Personalities of the Reformation in the Collection of Albert Szenci Molnár

Summary/Abstract: The great Hungarian erudite, Albert Szenci Molnár (1574–1634) kept his own correspondence and official documents in a volume. The tome was inherited by his son, from whom it became the possession of the English erudite Isaac Basire (1606–1676), and afterwards it was found in the archive of Cathedral chapter of Alba Iulia. During the middle of the 19th century it was in the property of Zsigmond Szathmári Pap (professor at the Reformed College in Cluj), later his widow sold it to count József Kemény. Kemény had disassembled the volume into sheets, organized the letters chronologically, rebound it and bestowed it to the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Although there were 65 autograph letters written by important personalities of the Reformation from the 16th century, like Jean Calvin (1509–1564), Théodore de Beze (1519–1605), Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499–1562), Girolamo Zanchi (1516–1590), Theodor Bibliander (1505–1564), Johann Jakob Grynäus (1540–1617), Johannes Oporinus (1507–1568), Pierre Viret (1511–1571), Jean Crespin (1520–1572) etc., these are missing from the new volume. The conclusion of our research is that these autograph letters originated from the collection of Heinrich Bullinger (1504–1575), and Szenci received them from Bullinger’s grandson.

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