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746 Hungary and the Slavonic Kingdoms. I. LAWS, CHARTERS, DOCUMENTS, DESPATCHES OF AMBASSADORS. A. LAWS. All the statutes of the period from 1490 to 1526 will be found, together with Verboczy's Tripartitum, in the great edition, published in 1896, under the title Corpus Juris Hungarici 1000-1895. The short, but very useful, juristic and historic notes to the statutes of the period 1490-1526 are by Professors C. 6vari and A. Kolosvari. B. CHARTERS, DOCUMENTS. The Central Archives at Budapest contain over 35,000 documents and charters from the time previous to 1526, and the majority of those documents date from the fifteenth century. There are also numerous and important charters to be found both in the archives of towns like Pecs, Kassa, Arad and the Transylvanian towns, and in the private archives of the great families, such as the Csakys, the Forgachs, the Eszterhazys, the Bornemiszas, etc. For all these documents there are now various periodical publications, including genealogy and heraldry, edited or subsidised by the Hungarian Academy. For our period nearly all the important charters and documents will be found in: Acta Tomiciana, temp. Sigismundi regis Poloniae (a vast collection of documents made by Archbishop Peter Tomicki in the sixteenth century). Edited by Gorski, from 1852. (Very important for Poland, Bohemia and Hungary.) Analecta saeculi XVI. (A manuscript in the library of the Budapest University.) Engel, J. C. Monumenta Ungrica. Vienna. 1809. Fejer, G. Codex diplomaticus Hungariae ecclesiasticus et civilis. Buda. 1829-44. Rendered more available by the chronological Tabula of F. Knauz, 1862, and the Index alphabeticus of M. Czinar, 1866. (It does not extend beyond 1440.) Firnhaber, F. Beitrage z. Gesch. Ungarns unt. d. Regierung Konig Wladislav's u. Ludwig's II. In Archiv f. Kunde osterr. GeschichtsqueUen. Published by the Vienna Academy of Science, 1849. See pp. 375552, covering period 1490-3, containing 109 charters. Katona, S. S. J. Historia critica regum Hungariae. Buda. 1778-1817. 8vo. 42 vols. (Contains a very great number of documents printed from the originals.) To our period refer vols. xvn. xvm. xix. Kovachich, M. G. Vestigia comitiorum apud Hungaros, Buda, 1790; and especially the Supplementa, ib., 1798-1801. 3 vols. (Many of the numerous charters and documents collected by Kovachich and his son are printed in the Vestigia and other works by them.) Pray, G. S. J. Epistolae procerum regni Hungariae (1490-1531). Vol. i. Vienna. 1806. (A valuable compilation.) Theiner, A. Vetera monumenta historica Hungarian! sacram illustrantia ex tabulariis Vaticanis deprompta. 2 vols. Rome. 1859-60. Vatikani Magyarorszagi Okirattar. (Hungarian archives from the Vatican Library, a periodical publication of the Hungarian Academy.) See especially the part published in 1884. , In addition to the preceding works, there is much material to be found in the Archives of Vienna and Modena, and also in those of Mantua. In the Monumenta Hungariae historica published by the Hungarian Academy in four divisions (Diplomataria, Scriptores, Monumenta comitialia, Acta externa) are many charters and documents bearing on the reigns of Wladislav II and Louis II.