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7 István Brodarics to citizens of Kassa Pécs, 20 August 1515 Manuscript used: MOL, DF 269209 Published: Tóth-Szabó Pál, Oklevelek a kegyúri jog történetéhez, Történelmi Tár, 1903, 105–106. 1. Having heard that the position of the Provost of Jászó is vacant, he asks those in Kassa to give it to scribe Péter. Kristóf Darholczi also wrote about this to them. – 2. He and Darhoczi could have achieved with the Bishop that the Provostship goes to scribe Péter, but as advowson belongs to Kassa, they prefer to recommend their protégé to the town. – 4. People in Kassa should write a letter on behalf of scribe Péter, whose knowledge, morals and outstanding qualities make him worthy of recommendation. Brodarics’ formulation is ambiguous here. Already secretary of György Szatmári at the time. In 1505–1506, probably the patronage of Tamás Bakócz was behind the plans for publication, but the manuscript in question got into the hands of the young Humanist from his original patron Osvát Tuz. (On this compare: Kasza Péter, Egy karrier hajnala. Adalékok Brodarics István tanulmányainak és családi viszo nyainak történetéhez, Századok, 2008, 1193.) Szatmári, on the other hand, undoubtedly supported the publication of Janus’ works, as shown by the offering to the Bishop of Pécs in the Guarino-panegyricus of Sebestyén Magyi published in 1513. (Compare: Klaniczay Tibor (ed.), Janus Pannonius – Magyarországi humanisták. Budapest, 1982, 662–664. In Latin: Hegedüs István, Analecta nova, Budapest, 1903, 214.) On Brodarics’ connections to Sebestyén Magyi and the Bologna circle see: Révész Mária, Néhány adat Philippus Beroaldus maior magyar összeköttetéseihez. Egyetemes Philológiai Közlöny, 1941, 165–166. 7  Fülöp Csulai Móré (1476/77–1526), Humanist, Royal Secretary, later Bishop of Pécs. Csulai studied with Beroaldo in Bologna and had a friendly relationship with Aldus Manutius too. Like Brodarics, Csulai was also a protégé of Szatmári. In the first two decades of the 1500s, he visited Venice many times as Hungarian royal envoy. More on his life: Fedeles Tamás, Egy Jagelló-kori humanista pályaképe. Csulai Móré Fülöp (1476/1477–1526), Levéltári Közlemények, 2007, 35–84. Prudentes et Circumspecti Domini mihi Honorandi.

[1.] Praeposituram ecclesiae de Iazo vacare1 intelligo, iusque patronatus eius praepositurae Vestras Dominationes habere.2 Si igitur istic in medio sui Dominationes Vestrae nondum aliquam personam ad eam praeposituram elegerunt, supplico Dominationibus Vestris, easque vehementissime rogo, velint mei etiam ob respectum et meorum servitiorum praeposituram ipsam Petro litterato,3 nunc domini mei4 servitori, qui et vicinus Vestris Dominationibus est et moribus, scientia, aliisque virtutibus satis decoratus, conferre. Sicut egregius etiam dominus Christophorus Darhoczy,5 cubicularius domini reverendissimi Dominationibus Vestris super hac re latius scripsit.6

[2.] Nos cum ipso domino Christoforo Darhoocz, si pro ea praepositura ipsi domino Petro litterato obtinenda laborare et intercedere apud dominum nostrum reverendissimum voluissemus, credimus nos habere tantum favoris apud suam dominationem reverendissimam, ut praeposituram ipsam obtinere ipsi domino Petro potuissemus, sed cum, ut dixi, eius praepositurae ius patronatus Vestrae Dominationes habeant, potius voluimus ad Vestras Dominationes in favorem illius boni viri scribere. Quas unacum ipso domino Christoforo rogo, velint utriusque nostrum servitiorum intuitu praeposituram ipsam ipsi domino Petro litterato conferre.

[3.] Velintque ipsae etiam Dominationes Vestrae in favorem et commendationem illius boni viri scribere, quem de peritia litterarum, de bonis moribus et de omni probitatis genere merito Dominationes Vestrae commendare possunt. Valere cupio Vestras Dominationes, quibus me et servitia mea commendo.

Ex Quinqueecclesiis in festo beati Stephani regis anno 1515. Stephanus Brodaryth decretorum doctor et secretarius reverendissimi domini Quinqueecclesiensis

On the outer side: Prudentibus et circumspectis dominis, iudici iuratisque civibus civitatis Cassoviensis, dominis honorandis.

Provost Pál Jászai, who was appointed to the position in 1508 by Szatmári himself, died in 1515. Bishop of Pécs György Szatmári and his home town Kassa won advowson of Provostship of Jászó and the right to elect the Provost on 9 June 1508. The convent, however, also clinged to the right of free election of the Provost based on their privileges upheld by Vladislaus. After the death of Pál Jászai, the convent elected Gergely Karácsondi Provost. Karácsondi was later confirmed by Szatmári himself as Provost. The document about this is dated 23 September 1515. (Compare: MOL DF 269210) Regarding the Jászó convent see: Tóth-Szabó Pál, Szathmári György prímás (1457–1524), Budapest, 1906; and Tóth-Szabó Pál, Jász a főkegyúri jog történetében II., Századok, 1905, 223–247. 3  An unknown employee of György Szatmári who did not attain Provostship. 4  Brodarics was already the secretary of Szatmári. 5  It is about nobleman Kristóf Darholczi from Sáros County, about whom we have several pieces of data together with his father (Pál Darholczi) and brothers (Pál and Vilmos). (Compare: MOL, DL 97820, DL 64524, DL 75106). Kristóf, Vice-Comes of Sáros County from 1514, Chamberlain of György Szatmári in 1515. 6  For Darholczi’s letter to the town of Kassa dated 18 August 1515, see: MOL, DF 270974