Description:
Thomas Seneca Tribbrachus Mutinensis
Kurzaufnahme einer Handschrift
Sammelhandschrift
BSB-Provenienz: Bibliotheca Corviniana München, alte
kurfürstliche Hofbibliothek vor 1803 Extent:
64 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 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 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 produced in Ferrara, Italy,
in 1460. Its binding, made in Buda, where the king had set up his
own workshop, is decorated with the royal arms. The binding
reflects a blend of local Gothic style and Eastern-inspired
elements from the Italian Renaissance, based on oriental models
that are thought to have originated in North Africa, particularly
in Egypt. The volume is believed to have been presented by Georg
Hörmann, who was in the service of the Fugger family, to 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:
Italien
Italy
937
871
1 AD - 99 AD Publication Statement:
Ferrara um 1460
