Description:
Cum multis picturis et initialibus ornatis Libri nitidissime et
elegantissime scripti arte singulari conspicui sunt Pictor erat
Attavantes ab Attavantibus aut saltem omnia sub oculis magistri
composita sunt, ingenium clarissimae illius scholae Florentinae
spirantia
Pictor erat Attavantes ab Attavantibus
Kurzaufnahme einer Handschrift
BSB-Provenienz: Salzburg, Hofbibliothek
Altsignatur: Codcpict 21(1 Extent:
216 Bl. - Pergament Alternative Title:
Cod.c.pict. 21(1 Abstract:
Englische Version: Titus Livius (circa 59 BC-17 AD), commonly known
in English as Livy, was the most important Roman historian before
Tacitus. He made no lasting impact on the European Middle Ages, but
he became one of the favorite authors of the Renaissance humanists,
who paid tribute to him in the form of a multitude of splendid
manuscripts. The parchment manuscript presented here, consisting of
216 leaves, is the first of three volumes and is a typical product
of the Florentine Renaissance. Each of its volumes contains one of
the surviving “decades” of Livy's major work, the monumental
history of Ancient Rome commonly referred to as Ab Urbe Condita
(From the foundation of Rome), about a quarter of which survives.
The work is structured in ten books (called decades). The first
decade, presented here, covers the period from the legendary
founding of Rome, involving Aeneas, Romulus, and Remus, to the
third Samnite war, circa 290 BC. Piero Strozzi wrote the text in
his elegant hand; the decoration originates from an unknown
workshop. This manuscript of Livy is also living proof of the
Italian-inspired flowering of Hungarian humanism in the time of the
Hunyadi king Matthias Corvinus (reigned 1458-90), whose former
tutor, János Vitéz, archbishop of Esztergom (1408-72),
commissioned the manuscript. His successor, who became archbishop
of Salzburg in 1476, took it with him to Salzburg. In 1801 it was
removed to Paris by the French as war booty. In 1815, at the
conclusion of the Napoleonic wars, the manuscript had to be handed
over to Bavaria, to which Salzburg at that time belonged. // Autor:
Erwin Arnold Subjects:
Rome History, 753-293 B. C. - Sources
Rome (Italy)
Rome Historiography
937
753 BC Publication Statement:
[S.l.] 15. Jh.
