Description:
BSB-Provenienz: München, alte kurfürstliche Hofbibliothek vor
1803
Aristeas
Kurzaufnahme einer Handschrift Extent:
II, 81, I Bl. Abstract:
Englische Version: Under the influence of Italian humanism and of
his book-collector tutor János Vitéz, the Archbishop of
Esztergom, Matthias Corvinus of Hungary (1443–1490), developed a
passion for books and learning. Elected king of Hungary in 1458 at
the age of 14, Matthias won great acclaim for his battles against
the Ottoman Turks and his patronage of learning and science. He
created the Bibliotheca Corviniana, in its day one of Europe's
finest libraries. After his death, and especially after the
conquest of Buda by the Turks in 1541, the library was dispersed
and much of the collection was destroyed, with the surviving
volumes scattered all over Europe. This codex, one of eight
manuscripts originally in the Corvinus Library and now preserved in
the Bavarian State Library, contains a text that recounts, in the
form of a letter, the legendary history of the origins of the Greek
translation of the Pentateuch. Written by Aristeas, the pseudonym
for an anonymous Jew from Alexandria, the text was translated by
Mattia Palmieri (1423–1583), humanist, politician, and secretary
to the Holy See, who also composed a preface addressed to Pope Paul
II. The manuscript bears the crest of Matthias Corvinus and the
portrait of Ptolemy II, who was said to have commissioned the
translation of the Pentateuch into Greek. The Bibliotheca
Corviniana Collection was inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the
World Register in 2005. Subjects:
222.1
Italien
400 BC - 300 BC
Italy Publication Statement:
Buda um 1480
