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According to his own words in the work's dedication, Thurocz had no ambitions as an historian. In fact, his chronicle contains many errors and omits a number of significant events. Besides more reliable sources, the work relies extensively on oral tradition, folk songs and anecdotes, and contains
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Destiny and fortune play a significant role in history as seen by Thurocz. Like many of his contemporaries he was convinced of the close relationship between human fortune, historical events and the motion of celestial bodies.
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edition, published 20 March 1488, printed by Couradus Stahel and Matthias Preinlein. One copy is preserved at the Biblioteca Mănăstirii Brâncoveanu in Romania; a second at
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in August 1487; this can be considered Thurocz's own original work, and was mostly written in early 1487. It was inspired by the famous historico-geographical lexicon
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Illuminations the hand coloured woodcut illustrations (55), the initial letters Inc C 75, accession number F 1450/76 Slovak National Library at Matica slovenská in
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region, Slovakia) where they were members of a yeoman family recorded since the first half of the 13th century (the village of
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an interpretation of the history of the Hungarian Kingdom from 895 (arrival of the Magyars) until the rule of King
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The third part describes events from the death of King Charles II the Small (died 1386) until the conquest of
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and was based largely on existing diplomatic documents and letters. However, information from the
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at the royal court, and from 1486 to 1488 as a head notary and judge of the royal personnel clerk
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edition, dated 3 June 1488. Publisher Erhard Ratdolt for Theobald Feger, a citizen of Buda.
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German 1490 manuscript: one copy at Heidelberg (Cod. Pal. germ. 156); another at
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in front of his name was merely a polite title for an official or civil servant.
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Thurocz wrote the second part was written in 1486 and describes the deeds of
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Great historians from antiquity to 1800: an international dictionary
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The first editions of Chronica Hungarorum were published in 1488 in
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the so-called Hunnish chronicle based on old Hungarian chronicles (
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The German illuminated manuscript and the German-language text
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Heraldry of Corvinus as depicted in the 1490 German manuscript
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Thurocz sought an explanation of a number of events in the
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The first part is Thurocz's interpretation of a poem by
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Thurocz's chronicle was written in three main parts:
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many references to "miraculous" events and wonders.
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