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Notes on the Annotation Material of the Varadian Bible

Summary/Abstract: An additional peculiarity of the Varadian Bible in comparison with the previous early editions of the Hungarian Bible translation of Gáspár Károli, is the annotation material worked out by Sámuel Köleséri, senior (1634–1683). The type area of the Varadian Bible shows that the body text printed in two columns is surrounded by several note-isles set with smaller characters: detailing headings included in textboxes at the head of the books and chapters, and marginal notes printed on the both vertical margins. According to their content and their characteristic, these notes may be ranked in three groups, such as: summaries (headings extended to résumé), glossaries (explanatory glossaries, concise exegetical remarks) and textuary indices (references to concordant, or parallel texts). Not all of these notes were compound by Köleséri, but the majority of the glosses have on them the mark of his theological, exegetical thinking. The present study is dealing not only with the glosses pronouncedly formulated by Köleséri, but also with a selection of all the enumerated sorts of notes.

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