HUN-REN‒NSZL Fragmenta et Codices Research Group

Address: National Széchényi Library, Budavári Palota, F épület, H-1276 Budapest, Pf. 1205, Hungary Tel.: +36-1-487-8634

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Anna Boreczky

Contact

National Széchényi Library, 1276 Budapest, Pf. 1205, Budavári Palota F épület, Room 612
Tel.: +36-1-487-8635
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E-mail: boreczky.anna@oszk.hu

Studies

2003: Doctoral Support, Medieval Studies Department, Central European University, Budapest
1998–2002: Doctoral School of Art History, Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Humanities, Budapest
1995–1998: Invisible College, Budapest
1993–1998: integrated MA programme in art history, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
1988–1990: piano major, Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Teachers’ Training Institute

Employment

2008–: senior research fellow, HAS–NSZL Res Libraria Hungariae Research Group, ELKH; at present: HUN-REN‒NSZL Fragmenta et Codices Research Group
2003–2006: research fellow, HAS Universal Art History Research Group, Eötvös Loránd University, Department of Art History, Budapest
1998–2002: assistant research fellow, HAS Institute of Art History, Budapest

Field of research

medieval book culture, illuminated manuscripts; illustration history, visual narratives; the medieval reception of classical antiquity; biblical typology

Selected publications

• Apollonius Pictus Reevaluated. Kurt Weitzmann’s Legacy and the Multi-Layered Historicity of Medieval Manuscripts. In: After the Carolingians. Manuscript Illumination in the Tenth, Eleventh Centuries. Eds. Beatrice Kitzinger, Joshua O’Driscoll. Berlin, De Gruyter, 2019, 433–457.
  
• Book Culture in Medieval Hungary. In: The Art and Architecture in Medieval Hungary, Eds. Pál Lővei, Vinni Lucherini, Imre Takács. Roma, Viella, 2018, 283–303.
  
• The Budapest Concordantiae Caritatis. The Medieval Universe of a Cistercian Abbot in the Picture Book of a Viennese Councilman. (Commentary on the facsimile edition of manuscript CX2 of the Central Library of the Piarist Order, Budapest.) Szekszárd, Schöck Art Print, 2017.
  
• Classical Heritage and Medieval Innovation. Illustrated Texts from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages. Convivium. Exchanges and Interactions in the Arts of Medieval Europe, Byzantium, and Mediterranean III/1. Brno, Masarykova univerzita, 2016.
  
• Co-edited with Béla Zsolt Szakács: Liber decorum. Wehli Tünde köszöntése. [Liber decorum. Studies in Honor of Tünde Wehli]. Ars Hungarica 29/1–2. Budapest, MTA Művészettörténeti Intézet, 2013.
  
• Co-edited with András Németh: Apollonius Pictus. An Illustrated Late Antique Romance around 1000 / Egy illusztrált késő antik regény 1000 körül. Budapest, OSZK, 2011.

Memberships, collaborations, projects, fellowships

• 1 September 2020‒28 February 2022: Alexander von Humboldt fellowship, Berlin, Kunsthistorisches Institut der Freien Universität
  
• 2019‒: HAS Committee on Book History
  
• 2013–2014: School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton