A short film, made for our exhibition entitled The Corvina Library and the Buda Workshop, about making a precious copy of a corvina page has recently been made available to the general public.
A short film, made for our exhibition entitled The Corvina Library and the Buda Workshop [1], about making a precious copy of a corvina page has recently been made available to the general public. The page is a precious copy of the frontispiece [2] of codex under shelfmark Cod. Lat. 428, the so-called Trapezuntius corvina, kept in National Széchényi Library.
Only masters of the highest skills are capable of making a real precious copy - by hands and with the original materials. Our short film presents the work of István Molnár, book binder-gilding master of the Hungarian national library.
The film was made by two staff members of the Collection of Historical Interviews: cameraman Gergely Ballagó and editor-cutter Luca Hanák.
Data sheet of Trapezuntius corvina [3]
Website presenting the corvinas [4]
Links:
[1] http://www.oszk.hu/en/corvina-library-and-buda-workshop
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BB0Ij_qEoo&feature=youtu.be
[3] https://corvina.hu/en/corvina/virtual-corvinas/codlat428-en/
[4] https://corvina.hu/en/front/
[5] http://193.6.201.226/en/category/foszotar-es-pozicionalo/hirek