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National Széchényi Library
Országos Széchényi Könyvtár
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LocationBuda Castle, Budapest, Hungary, Hungary
TypeNational library
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Websitewww.oszk.hu/en

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National Széchényi Library
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Plan of Buda Castle: buildings A, B, C, D – Hungarian National Gallery, building E – Budapest Historical Museum, building F – National Széchényi Library. Underneath building C is the Palatinal Crypt with 3 rooms.

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The National Széchényi Library (Template:Langx, Script error: No such module "IPA".) (OSZK) is a library in Budapest, Hungary, located in Buda Castle. It is one of the two Hungarian national libraries, the other being University of Debrecen Library.

History

The library was founded in 1802 by the highly patriotic Hungarian aristocrat Count Ferenc Széchényi. Széchényi traveled the world buying Hungarian books, which he assembled and donated to the nation. In 1803, the public library was opened in Pest. Széchényi's example resulted in a nationwide movement of book donations to the library.[1]

In 1808, the Hungarian National Assembly ("Diet") created the Hungarian National Museum to collect the historical, archaeological and natural relics of Hungary. The Museum was merged into the Library and for the last 200 years this is how it has existed, a national depository for written, printed and objective relics of the Hungarian past.[1]

In 1846, the Hungarian National Museum moved into its new building but it was not until 1949 that the Library became a separate entity again, with its current name. In 1985, the library moved to its new home at the Buda Castle Palace.[1] The NSZL works on its catalogue's semantic availability.[2]

Directors

Collections

The library aims to collect "hungarica" which is describes as works published within Hungary, published in Hungarian, written by Hungarian authors, and those with Hungarian aspects. The library receives two copies of all publications and prints produced in Hungary.[1]

Books

The library's Incunabulum Collection consists of 1,800 books printed before 1500; notable items include a fragment of the Gutenberg Bible and the Chronica Hungarorum-the first book printed in Hungary. Its Antiqua Collection holds 13,000 items from the 16th century, including a first edition of Nostradamus' The Prophecies. The Old Hungarian Library is a collection of 8,500 old Hungarian books including the Vizsoly Bible, the first complete Bible printed in Hungarian. The Apponyi Collection is a collection of over 3,000 Hungarian-related items donated by Count Albert Apponyi in 1924. One of its most notable items is the Tabula Hungariae, the earliest surviving printed map of Hungary. Other collections include the Leaflet Collection; Old Cyrillica Collection, mostly consisting of liturgical books written in Romanian Cyrillic, Early Printed Books Archive, and the History of Binding Collection.[3]

Periodicals

With the influx of periodicals in the 19th century, József Szinnyei Sr. [hu] established the National Newspaper Library in 1884. The library has about 250,000 volumes of periodicals. Of the Hungarian and international newspaper collection, almost 75 percent of its items are the only surviving copies. Notable items include the Nova Posoniensia [Wikidata], the first regular newspaper in Hungary, and the Journal des Sçavans, the earliest academic journal in Europe.[4]

Manuscripts

The library holds the largest manuscript collection in Hungary with about 1,400,000 total items.[5] Notable items include the original copies of Himnusz, Hungary's national anthem, and Szózat, a Hungarian song.[6]

Posters and Small Prints

The Collection of Posters and Small Prints, established in 1935, holds about four million documents, making it one of the biggest collections of the library.[7]

Maps

In 1939, the Map Collection became an independent department of the National Széchényi Library. As of 2015, the map collection encompasses over 300,000 items, with 3,400 map sheets belonging to the original Széchényi-collection from the early 1800s.[8] Approximately a quarter of the maps' coverage is of historical Hungary, and the remaining maps in the collection cover areas all over the world.

The library has been digitizing its map collection in recent years to make cultural heritage items more accessible. The library partnered with the Department of Cartography and Geoinformatics at Eötvös Loránd University to digitize some of the library's globes to create the Virtual Globes Museum. Tabula Hungariae, the first printed map of Hungary, is now digitized and accessible online.[8]

Theatre History

In 1949, the Theatre History Collection was established to take over the libraries of the theaters that remained after World War II. It holds 30,000 plays and 380,000 documents.[9]

Music

The library's music collection holds 170,000 items of printed sheet music. Notable items include Joseph Haydn's manuscripts and first edition works, items from Franz Liszt, and Ferenc Erkel's operas' manuscripts.[10]

Photos

The library's photo collection was established in 2007. Among other items, it holds 40,000 glass plates or photo and film negatives of the library's book collection.[11]

Discovery of New Mozart Autograph

In 2014, a Hungarian librarian discovered four pages of Mozart's original score (autograph) of the Piano Sonata no. 11 in A Major (KV 331) in Budapest's National Széchényi Library. Until then, only the last page of the autograph survived.[A] The paper and handwriting of the four pages matched that of the final page of the score, held in Salzburg. Zoltán Kocsis gave the first performance of the discovered score in September 2014.[14]

See also

References

Notes

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  1. ^ The original score is close to the first edition, published in 1784.[12] However, in the first movement, in bars 5 and 6 of Variation V, the rhythm of the final eight note of the bar was altered by various editions throughout time. In the menuetto, the last quarter beat of bar 3 is a C-sharp in most editions, but in the autograph an A is printed.[13]

Citations

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  1. ^ a b c d Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."History of the Library". National Széchényi Library. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Semantic web - NektarWiki".
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Early Printed Books". National Széchényi Library. Retrieved 2022-03-26.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Periodicals". National Széchényi Library. Retrieved 2022-03-26.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Manuscripts". National Széchényi Library. Retrieved 2022-03-26.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Special Collections". National Széchényi Library. Retrieved 2022-03-26.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Posters, small prints, reproduced graphics". National Széchényi Library. Retrieved 2022-03-26.
  8. ^ a b Kiss, E., Ungvári, Z., & Fulajtár, P. (2015). Digital Map Collection Project at the National Széchényi Library. e-Perimetron, 10(1), 1-10.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Documents on Theater History". National Széchényi Library. Retrieved 2022-03-26.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Music Collection". National Széchényi Library. Retrieved 2022-03-26.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Photo Collection". National Széchényi Library. Retrieved 2022-03-26.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kozinn, Allan (1 October 2014). "A Mozart Mystery: Sonata Manuscript Surfaces in Budapest". The New York Times. p. C4.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."K. 331 Sonata in A major". Retrieved 12 January 2018.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."A rediscovered sonata, as Mozart intended". AFP. 27 September 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-10-09. Retrieved 2015-02-14.

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