Agathias: De bello Gothorum
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., 83–84.
DATA SHEET
Shelfmark: Clm 294Country: Germany
City: Munich
Keeper location: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Digitized corvina: at the keeper location
Author: Agathias (c. 530–582/594)
Content: Historiarum libri I–V
Translator: Cristoforo Persona (1416–1485)
Writing medium: parchment
Number of sheets: II + 168
Sheet size: 283 × 210 mm
Place of writing: Rome
Date of writing: 1483/84
Scriptor: Clemens Salernitanus
Illuminator: Gioacchino de' Gigantibus (fl. 1450–1485)
Place of illumination: Rome
Date of illumination: 1483/84
Crest: coat-of-arms of Matthias Corvinus (King of Hungary 1458–1490, King of Bohemia 1469–1490)
Possessor, provenience: the translator, humanist and Greek scholar Cristoforo Persona, prefect of the Vatican library dedicated this volume to Matthias Corvinus, and another copy to Queen Beatrix (see below); later probably in the library of Johann Jakob Fugger (1516–1575) (Augusburg); from 1582 in the court library of Munich
Binding: original silk binding, gauffered-gilded edge
Language of corvina: Latin
Condition: restored (early twentieth century)
Comment: Parallel corvina: Budapest, NSZL, Cod. Lat. 413.