Quemadmodum variae sunt et multiplices mortalium voluntates atque appetitus, ita videmus varia ac multum inter se diversa esse studia, et diversas ad varias artes ab ipsis paene incunabulis animorum applicationes, prout cuique vel natura, vel conditio, vel animi libido suadet. Quo sit, ut alii protinus, ut in lucem sunt editi, agricolationi animum intendant, alios mercium ex diverso orbe terra marique convehendarum studium teneat, aliis in opificio quopiam et vel pingendi vel fingendi aut sculpendi arte excellere pulchrum ac decorum videbatur, alii postremo alias vitae humanae necessarias artes et studia sequantur. Qui vero nobiliorem a natura vim sortiti sunt, et reliquum [ERROR: no reftable :]3 Brodarich: Brodarych MOL R 64 1  The original of the document severely damaged already was in the possession of the Tallián family. The copy that is presently in the MOL was made after this in 1897. The Tallián archive was incorporated into the National Museum in 1899, but by this time the original of Brodarics’ coat of arms had disappeared. Compare: Laczlavik György, Brodarics István címereslevele, Turul, 2011/1, 28. 2  Jerosin or Jarosin, Kőrös county (today: Herešin, Croatia). Relevant literature disputes that Brodarics really used the name of Jerosin, because, apart from the charter, it is never seen in his letters that survived. In a letter dated 1 October 1532., he names Polyana in Kőrös County as his ancestral estate. On the issue of title of nobility see: Kujáni Gábor, A Brodaricsok, Századok, 1913, 755–756; on Jerosin–Herešin the authority is Ranko Pavleš, who uses recent Croatian literature too. Compare: Ranko Pavleš, Koprivničko i đurđevečko vlastelinstvo. Povijest, topografija, organizacija, Koprivnica, 2001, 110–111. 3  This, in fact, is a title of chapel rector. The St. Andrew’s chapel might have been built next to the south-western part of cathedral. Sources mention one of its altars already in the early 14th century. Tamás Bakócz was one of the chapel rectors before 1487; all his known successors were clerics with a university degree. Compare Timár György, A szenttisztelet Pécsett a középkorban (patrocinium, titulus, ecclesiae) = Font Márta (ed.), Pécs szerepe a Mohács előtti Magyarországon. Tanulmányok Pécs történetéből 9., Pécs, 2001, 69–103.

humani generis vulgum gloria et nominis amplitudine antecellere conantur, eorum duo genera esse videmus, aut enim rem militarem sequuntur, aut ab ipso aetatis principio bonarum artium studiis animum dedunt. Quae quidem duae res solae propemodum sunt, quae mirabile dictu est, quantum et ornamenti et emolumenti humano generi asserant, alterum enim, si bello quatimur, ex bello nobis victoriam, ac demum pacem parat, alterum in pace quietos nos ac legibus et iure aequabili viventes continet. Itaque haud temere ullum tam ferum, tam barbarum, tamque ab omni humano cultu alienum atque aborientem populum reperias, ubi non his geminis artibus summus sit semper honor habitus. Verum quod ad litteras attinet, quantum [...] splendoris et claritudinis, tantum etiam commodi et emolumenti facile inesse apparet. Nam si quis [...] perpendiculum revocare voluerit et aequa lance metiri, procul dubio reperiet nobis parum profuisse ratione et intellectu a ceteris animantibus distinctos fuisset [...] divinationem vocamus, exculta atque elimata fuisset. Quid enim inter nos et cetera animalia [...] adminiculo et nobis et tam multiplices rerum cognitiones et Dei ipsius Optimi Maximi ac naturae omnium parentis abstrusissima arcana [...] monumentiore eo iam [...] penetratum, quo vim naturare, humanare, penetrare posse nemo unquam credidisset. Litterae igitur sunt et [...] omnium nationum absolutissimam [...] cognitionem tribuunt, litterae denique, quae [...] sempiternam, immensam, ineffabilem, incomprehensibilem [...] Quid igitur [...] elegantius? Quid laudabilius, quam in ea re vel mediocriter excellere, quae tantum rebus humanae omnibus antistiti et tantum divina humanaque omnia [...] Nosque, qui de benignitate ad hoc tam amplum atque excelsum regni fastigium sumus evecti, semper ab initio maximae curae habuimus, ut tam armorum quam litterarum studiosi praecipuis [...] et pari quodammodo atque aequali existimatione ac dignitate haberentur.