Description:
Kurzaufnahme einer Handschrift
BSB-Provenienz: Italien Bibliotheca Corviniana München, alte
kurfürstliche Hofbibliothek vor 1803
Enthält auf fol 104v-106v die Epistola 12 (ad Athenienses) des
Aeschines
Demosthenes Extent:
I+110+I Bl. - Pergament Abstract:
Englische Version: Under the influence of Italian humanism and of
his book-collector tutor János Vitéz, 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 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 several speeches and letters by Aeschines and
Demosthenes, among which is Demosthenes' most brilliant speech, "On
the Crown", in the translation by the humanist Leonardo Bruni from
Arezzo (1370?-1444), who also contributed a preface addressed to
Niccolò Medici. The book, which bears the Corvinus coat of arms,
may originally have been owned by Vitéz. Following the death of
Corvinus, it was acquired by Johann Jakob 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
354 BC - 322 BC
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Italy Publication Statement:
Florenz um 1465
