Beda Venerabilis: De natura rerum
The source of the data sheet is the detailed description of the manuscript: ZSUPÁN, Edina, “Die Bibliotheca Corviniana im Kleinen. Beschreibung der lateinischen Corvinen der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek”, in FABIAN, Claudia, ZSUPÁN, Edina, Hrsg., Ex Bibliotheca Corviniana. Die acht Münchener Handschriften aus dem Besitz von König Matthias Corvinus. Bavarica et Hungarica 1. Supplementum Corvinianum 1. (Budapest: [OSZK], 2008.), 69–106., 80–82.
DATA SHEET
Shelfmark: Clm 175Country: Germany
City: Munich
Keeper location: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Digitized corvina: at the keeper location
Author: Bede (672/673–735); Lucius Annaeus Seneca (between 4 BC and 1 AD–65 AD)
Content: Bede: De natura rerum (incomplete); Lucius Annaeus Seneca: Naturales quaestiones (incomplete)
Writing medium: parchment
Number of sheets: II + 72 + II*
Sheet size: 344 × 240 mm
Place of writing: Buda
Date of writing: circa 1490
Illuminator: Francesco da Castello
Place of illumination: Buda
Date of illumination: circa 1490
Crest: coat-of-arms of Wladislas II (King of Bohemia 1471–1516, King of Hungary 1490–1516), painted on coat-of-arms elements of his predecessor, Matthias Corvinus (King of Hungary 1458–1490, King of Bohemia 1469–1490); coat-of-arms of Georg Hörmann (1491–1552)
Possessor, provenience: the manuscript was written entirely in Buda; it is evident from the repainted monograms and coat-of-arms elements that the volume was originally intended for Matthias Corvinus, but was completed under his successor, Wladislas II; it was in the possession of the patrician Georg Hörmann, a Fugger factor, at the latest in 1544, when he donated the volume to Johann Jakob Fugger (1516–1575); it was transferred to the Munich court library in 1571 as part of the holdings of the Fugger library in Augsburg
Binding: leather binding made during the reign of Wladislas II, imitating the gilded corvina leather bindings; gauffered-gilded edge
Language of corvina: Latin
Condition: restored (1959)