On 6 December 2024, the exhibition Fruits of Discord. Portraying the Ottoman Presence opened at the Slovak National Gallery. The exhibition presents the interesting and dramatic history of Hungarian-Ottoman relations in the 16th and 17th centuries through the example of the cultural relations, including the Tamás Pálffy volume on loan from the ELTE University Library and Archives. The exhibition explores the period of Ottoman expansion in Hungary and the intercultural exchanges, with a special focus on Ottoman material culture in Central European art.
The volume on display (RMK III. 316:1) contains a speech by Tamás Pálffy (1620-1679), Major Canon and Abbot of Bath of Esztergom, later Bishop of Vác, Eger and Nitra, delivered in the Church of St John the Baptist in Nagyszombat on 26 November 1652 on the occasion of the funeral of four members of the Esterházy family, victims of the battle of Vesekény with the Turks. The speech in Latin is accompanied by a full-page depiction of the castrum doloris and a fold-out engraving of the funeral procession, printed on two leaves, made by Mauritz Lang in Bratislava from drawings of the scene by Hans Rudolf Miller. The illustrations on display are of particular importance for the history of art. The exhibition is open until 18 May 2025.