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2017/03/01
On March 8, 2017, Géza Komoróczy will deliver a lecture in the Library, as part of our event series entitled Orientalists in NSZL.
2017/02/27
The Hungarian Digital Archive of Pictures database contains some 75,000 items. Due to cooperation between National Széchényi Library and the National Cultural Fund of Hungary, more and more electronic journals arrive in the Electronic Periodicals Archive & Database of the Library.
2017/02/24
The first printing workshop of Nagyvárad was opened 450 years ago. To commemorate this occasion, an illustrated album on printing history, presenting rare treasures, was published recently. The volume featuring the eventful history, life and culture of Nagyvárad will be presented in NSZL on March 7, 2017.
2017/02/22
On the 50th anniversary of the death of Zoltán Kodály, a memorial concert presenting his vocal works will be held in the church of Óbuda-Hegyvidék Holy Trinity Parish. Choirs, including the Choir of National Széchényi Library, cordially invite you to the concert starting a 5 p.m. on Sunday March 5, 2017.
2017/02/21
This week, the Bookshop of NSZL will have different opening hours than usually. On Wednesday and Thursday, it will be open from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m., on Friday it will be closed, and on Saturday the shop will be open to visitors from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. We apologize for any inconvenience caused.
2017/02/20
Edina Zsupán, research fellow of HAS-NSZL Res Libraria Hungariae Research Group will deliver a lecture entitled Philology Bridging Centuries: Curtius Rufus Codex Owned by Miklós Jankovich at the Open Days of the Institute of Library & Information Science of Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Humanities. The lecture begins at 5 p.m. on February 22, 2017.
As of February 2017, NSZL will host a unique traveling exhibition. Gems of the literature of Hermetic Philosophy, 400-year-old, classic Rosicrucian documents will be presented, which once urged the educated European world to embrace “general, worldwide reformation”.
2017/02/09
Under the subtitle “A Hermetic Reformation”, a scholarly conference will be held in National Széchényi Library on February 18, 2017.  The conference will mark the opening of The Ritman Library’s traveling exhibition ‘Divine Wisdom – Divine Nature’, and its topics include alchemy, magic, Christian Kabbalah and the symbolic language of the Rosicrucians.
On February 14, 2017, a new chamber exhibition entitled “Massenet and Hungary” will be opened in the corridor adjacent to, and in the Reading Room of NSZL Music Collection. The exhibition will present the Hungarian reception and performance history of the French composer, known mainly as an opera composer. On top of that, the less known Hungarian aspects and connections of Massenet’s life and rich oeuvre will also be highlighted.
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