„Vilia munera” karynckiego asesora dla arcybiskupa Salzburga Leonharda von Keutschacha (BK 2674)

The holdings of the Kórnik Library include a small parchment manuscript produced in 1495/6 as a gift from an assessor in the Carinthian bishopric of Gurk, Georg Unterburger, a doctor of both laws, for the newly elected archbishop of Salzburg, Leonhard von Keutschach. The codex is relatively richly ornamented – with gilding – and comprises three short works by the donator: Laudatory oration for the Inauguration of the Pontifi cate [Oratio demonstrativa], A Treaty on Sacraments [Traktat o sakramentach] with a short prologue, and a Poem [Carmen] in praise of the new archbishop. With his gift , Unterburger – as he openly announces – wanted to establish a client-patron relationship with the new archbishop. The paper briefly presents both these figures against the background of the history of the Salzburg archdiocese analyses the Oration as an example of late-Medieval humanist rhetoric and, on the basis of the subsequent history of the manuscript, reflects on whether Unterburger managed to achieve his goal. The paper is accompanied by the annotated edition of Oration, prologue of the Treaty and the Poem.