Description:
Kurzaufnahme einer Handschrift
Agathias
Ausstattung: Picturae in f 1, 2 ab eodem sunt factae ut in cod 69,
809, 821 et aliis
BSB-Provenienz: Ex bibliotheca Corviniana Fugger, Johann Jakob (?)
München, alte kurfürstliche Hofbibliothek vor 1803 Extent:
II+168 Blätter - Pergament Alternative Title:
Agathius (sic) de bello Gotthorum et aliis peregrinis historiis per
Christophorum Persona Romanum e graeco in latinum traductus et
Matthiae regi Hungariae dicatus 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 a Latin translation of De
bello Gothicorum (Concerning the Gothic war). The text is an
account of the years from 552 to 559 by the Greek author Agathias
(sixth century AD); the translation is by Cristoforo Persona
(1416–1485), the prefect of the Vatican Library from 1484 onward.
The Latin text appears in humanistic book script, richly
illuminated by Joachinus de Gigantibus, and is dedicated by Persona
to Corvinus. The Bibliotheca Corviniana Collection was inscribed on
the UNESCO Memory of the World Register in 2005. Subjects:
Italien
552 AD - 559 AD
Handschrift
Italy
Kommentar
Lehrbuch
945.01 Publication Statement:
Rom 1483/84
