Festetics Codex

Festetics Codex

Festetics Codex. The prayer book of Benigna Magyar, wife of Pál Kinizsi
Electronic document
Edited by Balázs Kertész, János Káldos
Budapest, NSZL MEK, 2007. CD-ROM
ISSN 1788-1188
ISBN 978-963-200-528-7

Language: 
Hungarian
3 500,- Ft
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Teljes bibliográfiai leírás/Library catalogue item

The Festetics Codex is a prayer book made in the Nagyvázsony monastery of the Paulite order about 1493 on the commission of Pál Kinizsi for his wife, Benigna Magyar. The small size book served for everyday devotional practice with a rich Renaissance decoration that bears the influence of the Buda workshop of codex illumination that produced the Corvinas. The name Festetics is of the aristocratic family whose library of Keszthely hosted the codex until 1947 when it became part of the collections of National Széchényi Library.

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