Mercurius 2014

Mercurius is the official yearbook of National Széchényi Library that, following the tradition of the previous OSZK Híradó (NSZL News), and OSZK-NSZL Yearbooks, provides information on the yearly activity of the Hungarian National Library, its performance, tasks assumed, main events and most important academic achievements.

Contents:

• Editorial Preface
• Together Again: The One-Time Volumes of the Kölcsey Library
• Sir Secretary – Szigligeti 200
• Facing and Forming the Tradition
• The Gift of the Sultan: Four Corvinas from the Library of the Serai
• The Gate of Orient – A New International Road
• Turkey, our Guest
• „Bolder than Painting”. The Modern Hungarian Commercial Poster 1924–1942
• Book and Man Suppressed. The Period of Disaster and the National Széchényi Library
• This is What it was Like: Night of the Museums in 2014
• Guardians
• The Value-Rescuer
• NSZL at Book Festivals
• Vain Memories – The Atmosphere of the Sixties. “Do you Remember That, Tell Me My Dear Friend”
• ELDORADO – Electronic Documents to Everybody!
• „Ugly Book is a Sacrilege”
• Curiosity in the History of Binding From the Library of Hungarian Women
• Radnóti Memorial Year
• Our Pauliner Monks, the White Friars
• NSZL – Research Session(s), 2014
• MEK 20. – EPA 10.
• The Discovery of the Year. Unknown Mozart-Autograph in the Music Collection
• The Prague Calendar Restored
• Széchényi Memorial Day, 2014