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Across the Leitha 369 drawing out broader issues that it presented.13 In a much earlier account, dating from the period when he was still associated with the Böhm circle, Eitelberger spelled out the logic of the collection : to ensure universality (“Allseitigkeit”) and comprehensiveness (“Vollständigkeit”).14 Yet the significance of the circle for the present article lay not in its role in defining the methodological tenets of Viennese historiography, but rather in its membership. For alongside Henszlmann, a number of other Hungarians attended the meetings, including Ferenc Pulszky (1814–1897) (fig.  4), Pulszky’s uncle, Gábor Fe- jérváry (1780–1851), and Count Samuel Festetics (1806–1862). Fejérváry and Festetics were notable art collectors  – Fejérváry owned the famous Fejérváry-Mayer Aztec co- dex15  – while Pulszky would later become director of the Hungarian National Museum and vice-president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. 13 R. Eitelberger von Edelberg, Josef Daniel Böhm (1878), in : idem, Kunst und Künstler Wiens der neueren Zeit (Gesammelte kunsthistorische Schriften von Rudolf Eitelberger von Edelberg, vol.  1), Vienna 1879, pp.  180–227. 14 R. Eitelberger von Edelberg, Die Kunstsammlung des Hrn Direktors J.  D. Böhm in Wien, in : Oesterreichische Blätter für Literatur, Kunst, Geschichte, Geografie, Statistik und Naturkunde, 4, 19.10.1847, pp.  993–995, esp. p.  993. 15 E. Seeler, Codex Fejérváry-Mayer : An Old Mexican Picture Manuscript in the Liverpool Free Public Museums, Berlin and London, 1901/1902. Pulszky inherited the codex from his uncle in Fig. 4 : Ferenc Pulszky, Lithograph Portrait, Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Bildarchiv und Grafiksammlung.