Philostratus Corvina

Philostratus Corvina

Philostratus Corvina, 1487–1490 
Electronic document
Budapest, NSZL MEK, 2006. CD-ROM
ISSN 1788-1188
ISBN 963-200-510-4

Language: 
Hungarian
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Teljes bibliográfiai leírás/Library catalogue item

The Philostratus Codex (Cod. Lat. 417.) is one of the most decorous codices of the Corvina Library, made entirely for King Matthias. The works of Athenian sophist Philostratus (3rd  century AD) and his nephew were translated from Greek into Latin by Antonio Bonfini, King Matthias’s court historian, in 1487. The illumination was added in Florence, in the workshop of Boccardino il Vecchio. After Johannes Gremper, a Humanist of Vienna acquired the Corvina from Vladislaus II in 1513, it went to Johannes Cuspinianus and then to Johannes Fabri. It was handed over by the National Library of Austria to National Széchényi Library under the provisions of the Venice Agreement in 1932.

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