2. Juli Pflugk equitis Saxomci epiflola ad periSufirem at^; 
Generofiffimum Virum Ludovkum a Seckendorff Vtrum 
de utraq-, repullka merttijjimum , prater fata hilliothecs 
Budenfis^ Uhrorum quoq^^ in ultima expugnatione reper- 
torum catalogum exhibens, Jen. i6%%. inivo, 
THis Letter (which has about iii pages) mas in- 
tended to be publilled at the Requeit of Daniel 
Georgius Morhofius fooner, had not the Author thought 
Tollius would have undertook thisTask.This Library was 
fir ft gathered by Matthias Corvinus (who died 1490.) 
from all parts of theWorid,confifting both of PrintedBooks 
and Maoufcripts,- Printing being thenYoung,he kept Wri- 
ters in tnany Places to enrich his Library in what it want- 
ed from Greek, he got many Hebrew, Greek and Latin 
Books from Conftantinopk and Greece ^ when thofe Places 
were taken; 40 or j 0000 Books were faid to be in the Li- 
brary, of Printed and ManuCcript. Eofmannus Cardina- 
lis offer'd the Turks for them 200000 Nummi Imperiales, 
When Bud a was taken by the Turks, this Library was 
pillag'd by the So\ditxs^Busheckius bought many of them, 
and brought them to Vienna ; Johannes Samhucus pur- 
chafed many- of them, which are now alfo the Empe- 
ror's. Birckheimerus.got fome which now be- 
long to the Royal Society. The Remainder which was 
at Buda when it was taken, are here given an Account 
of in a Catalogue taken by a Miflionary Jefuit. At the 
Clofe of the Book is a Catalogue of fome Manufcripts 
formerly belonging to this Library, which are now in 
that of the Duke oi Wolf enhut ell . 
Z z Dijfertation^' 
