Description:
Kurzaufnahme einer Handschrift
Cornelius Celsus
BSB-Provenienz: ex Biblioteca Corviniana München, alte
kurfürstliche Hofbibliothek vor 1803 Extent:
217 Bl. - Pergament 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 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
the text De medicina by the Roman author A. Cornelius Celsus. The
original text, composed during the reign of the Emperor Tiberius
(AD 14–37) as part of an encyclopedia (Artes), was frequently
copied in the Middle Ages. Following the death of Corvinus, it was
acquired by Johann Jacob Fugger, with whose library it came to the
Munich court library of the dukes of Bavaria in 1571. The
Bibliotheca Corviniana Collection was inscribed on the UNESCO
Memory of the World Register in 2005. Subjects:
616
1 AD - 99 AD
Italy
Italien Publication Statement:
Florenz um 1465
