Sárkányok és humanisták
Dragons and Humanists

Summary/Abstract: A source from the 15th and another one from the 16th century speak about “dragon” remains in Transylvania. These fossils can be related to the southern part of Transylvania having been mentioned by Petrus Romanus and Jacques Bongars. The latter saw them in Enyed/Aiud in 1585. Ransanus may have seen the “dragon bones” in the same place , that is Enyed , in the so called castle, the property of the Transylvanian chapter. It consists of a church, the bastions and the castle walls around it and some other buildings. Supposedly the building over the entrance could have been the “museum” mentioned by the humanist Adorján Wolphard, later a archdeacon and vicar general, who published several Janus Pannonius manuscripts found there in Bologna 1521 and 1522. They might have kept there these remains of reptiles probably similar to those (a dinosaur and a pterosaur) discovered close to the centre of the Transylvanian bishoprie and to the town of Enyed, along the banks of the river Sebes by Mátyás Vremir a little while ago.

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