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247The Expeditio litteraria ad Polum Arcticum [c. 948–52]), written to his successor as a governance manual, and containing a great deal of material, including histories and legends, about neighboring peoples.128 He even took inspiration from these to prepare historical maps, and brooded over questions like the “original homes” of the Magyar tribes as well as the peoples they encountered and mingled with during their migration—the Khazars and Khazaria figuring especially prominently among them—the date of the birth of the founder of the state, King Saint Stephen I (c.970/75–1038, r.1000–38), or the later immigration of further nomadic groups like the Jazigs and Cumans into the medieval Kingdom of Hungary.129 Given this deep and systematic immersion, by the time of the Trnava edi- tion of the Demonstratio Hell’s swelling self-confidence in the field led him to strike an increasingly polemical, even resentful tone. Writing to Pray on February 5, 1772, he still regarded the historian as an ally, requesting his sup- port in countering some disparaging comments on the Demonstratio in von Schlözer’s Allgemeine nordische Geschichte. In his work, von Schlözer charged Sajnovics with ignorance of the migration of his own Hungarian people. Hell 128 Two chapters of the Expeditio litteraria were supposed to be devoted to Anonymus and to Constantine, respectively. For modern editions, see Anonymus and Master Roger, Anony­ mi Bele Regis Notarii Gesta Hungarorum/Anonymus, Notary of King Béla, the Deeds of the Hungarians, trans. and ed. Martyn Rady and László Veszprémy; Magistri Rogerii Epistola in Miserabile Carmen super Destructione Regni Hungarie per Tartaros Facta/Master Roger’s Epistle to the Sorrowful Lament upon the Destruction of the Kingdom of Hungary by the Ta­ tars, trans. and ed. János M. Bak and Martyn Rady (Budapest: Central European Univer- sity Press, 2010); Constantine vii Porphyrogenitus, De administrando imperio, Greek text ed. Gyula Moravcsik, English trans. R.J.H. [Romilly James Heald] Jenkins, commentary by F. [Francis] Dvornik (Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 1962–67). 129 Besides the letters to Pray already mentioned, Constantine Porphyrogenitus and Anony- mus are also discussed in Hell to Pray, January 10, 1771 and January 28, 1772, elte EK G 119. nos. 167, 161; Khazaria in Hell to Pray, January 18, 1772, elte EK G 119. no. 161. Anonymus is the central subject in Hell to Kaprinai, January 28 and February 18, 1772, and Kaprinai to Hell, February 16, 1772. elte EK, Coll. Kaprinayana, 66:nos. 2–4 (the original of the latter one, dated February 15, 1772, with a slightly different wording, is held at the wus MS Hell, 4:no. 47) As late as November 2, 1776, Katona sent Hell long reflections on Porphyrogeni- tus, wus MS Hell, 4:no. 53. The relevant drafts and fragments by Hell (all of them undat- ed) are also held at the wus, MS Hell, vol. 4, and include: “Notitia regni Ungariae anno 886. ante adventum Ungarorum” (no. 26); “Criteria ad indagadandam, et definiandam statem Scriptae Historia Anonymi Regis Belae Notarii de vii Ducibus Ungariae. ex ipso Auctore deducta” (no. 36); “Synopsis Chronologico-Geographico-Historica Adventus Un- garorum in Pannoniam Seculo ix. Ex Anonymo Regis Belae Notario, et Constantino Por- phyrogenetae De Administrando Imperio” (no. 40); “Disquisitio Critica de Cumanis” (no. 41); “De Primis Ungarorum sedibus seu Natali solo Ungarorum” (no. 58); “De Anno Nativi- tati S. Stephani” (no. 85); “Dissertatio de Ultimo Ungarii adventa in Pannoniam seu Hodi- ernam Ungariam” (no. 97).