Description:
Polybius Herodianus Historicus Heliodorus Emesenus
Foliierung springt von Bl 122 auf Bl 124
Kurzaufnahme einer Handschrift
Sammelhandschrift Extent:
VII+168+I 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 Bibliotheca Corvinian, 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 Book I - V of the histories of
the Greek historian Polybios (3rd/2nd century B.C.), a part of the
history of the empire after Mark Aurelius by the Greek historian
Herodianus (around 200 A.D.) and the late antique novel
"Aithiopiká" by Heliodor of Emesa. The writer was Isidoros,
Metropolitan of Kiev (died 1463), one of the most prominent figures
of the late Byzantine Empire. A handwritten note in the codex
proves that it was taken away from the city after the Turkish
conquest of Constantinople in 1453. On unknown ways it then
probably came into the possession of Matthias Corvinus. Later it
belonged to the Nuremberg physician Joachim Camerarius II (1534 -
1598), who donated the volume to Duke Albrecht V of Bavaria in
1577, which brought it into what was then the Munich Court Library,
now the Bavarian State Library. The Bibliotheca Corviniana
Collection was inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register
in 2005. Subjects:
937
Turkey
300 BC - 400 AD
Türkei
939.78 Publication Statement:
Konstantinopel 1. Drittel 15. Jh.
