Lapszéli jegyzetek Taddeo Ugoleto szótárában
Tablet notes in Taddeo Ugoleto dictionary

Summary/Abstract: Serving as royal librarian and tutor to János Corvinus, Matthias’ illegitimate son and heir, Taddeo Ugoleto played a key role in defining the general character and the actual holdings of Matthias’ library. Although Ugoleto was widely acknowledged as a humanist of deep education by his contemporaries, he appears to us as a ghost figure, since apart from his text editions and prefaces, none of his writings have survived. These circumstances make the notes and dictionary entries he put down propria manu on the pages of his copy of the Lexicon Graeco-Latinum edited by Johannes Crastonus in 1483 and now preserved in Vienna (ÖNB Ink. X. E. 9.) all the more precious and significant. The aim of this paper is twofold. First, through a detailed examination of his glosses and additions, an attempt will be made to gauge Ugoleto’s knowledge of Greek and philological erudition. Secondly, these notes also allow us to make certain assumptions about his readings, map his fields of interest, and even identify a couple of books, presumably all belonging to the royal library, that must have been available to him while writing.

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