Jan Filipec and his Pontificale Antonín Kalous Philosophical faculty, Palacký University, Olomouc 18 February 2010, Esztergom

Jan Filipec (1431–1509) b. Prostějov Olomouc Hungary – Esztergom, Felhévíz, Várad, Buda travels: Italy – Milan, Rome, Venice, Ferrara, Naples

Career in royal service Matthias Corvinus royal chancery + ecclesiastical benefices (royal patronage right: Esztergom, Felhévíz, Várad) diplomacy internal matters of Matthias’s Kingdom of Bohemia (in Moravia, Silesia) privy chancellor death of the king → life in seclusion (OFM)

Diplomacy diplomatic service Italy –1476 Venice – Ferrara – Naples – Manfredonia – Chioggia – Ferrara – Venice –1481 Venice (?) –1482–1483 Rome –1487 Venice – Ferrara – Venice – Milan – France – Milan France Austria, Germany, Bohemia political service in Hungary and other lands of Matthias Corvinus

Matthias & Milan friendly relations 1473 cooperation treaty (against Venice) –signed by Jan z Rabštejna, a Czech humanist in the service of Matthias 1487 wedding of John Corvinus & Bianca Maria Sforza –Filipec active – wedding act per procuram –big promises (also in Czech lands) –Giovanni Francesco Marliani’s Epithalamium –finally not successful

Ecclesiastical service specific situation in Hungary (patronage right) Esztergom – 1474 provost, metropolitan chapter Felhévíz – 1475 provost, collegiate chapter –close to the royal court Várad – 1476 bishop –resigned in Esztergom –wealthy bishopric –traditionally related to diplomacy and service in the privy chancery Olomouc – 1483 administrator –conflicts of concepts –conflict with the Papal curia (from originally ‘heretical’ family) –various candidates 1490 resignation of all → Franciscan friar

Filipec’s Pontificale one of the liturgical books bishop’s office in liturgical terms – description of and instructions for all his duties Filipec’s book –created in Buda, late 1470s or early 1480s –many illuminations –owned by Filipec, later by István Podmaniczky, bishop of Nitra; 19th c. – cardinal János Simor, archbishop of Esztergom

Pontificale benedictions ordinations coronations

Coronations this book mentioned in connection to the coronation of Vladislav II (II. Ulászló) (1490) and Ferdinand I (1527) as Kings of Hungary

Coronation of Vladislav/Ulászló sources Bonfini × Pontificale –Antonio Bonfini, Italian humanist historian –drawing heavily on the pontificale, when describing the coronation ideal coronation… description of rituals

Other coronations pope emperor queen

Cultural context Buda (later Vienna) court of Matthias Corvinus Italian connection HU Beatrix of Aragon (from Naples), wife of Matthias –many Italians in her court (scholars, humanists, artists, diplomats, churchmen) transmission of ideas, concepts and art –Italy – Hungary – Czech lands –Humanism? –Renaissance? diplomatic service – very much developed

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