Pseudo-Aristeas: Epistula ad Philocratem

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., 91–93.

 

DATA SHEET

Shelfmark: Clm 627
Country: Germany
City: Munich
Keeper location: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Digitized corvina: at the keeper location
Author: Pseudo-Aristeas (3–2. c. BC)
Content: Epistula ad Philocratem
Translator: Mattia Palmieri (1423–1483)
Writing medium: parchment
Number of sheets: II + 81 + I*
Sheet size: 172 × 125 mm
Place of writing: Buda
Date of writing: c. 1480
Scriptor: probably Gundisalvus Hispanus
Illuminator: Francesco da Castello, first heraldic painter (coat-of-arms of Matthias Corvinus)
Place of illumination: Buda
Date of illumination: c. 1480
Crest: coat-of-arms of Matthias Corvinus (King of Hungary 1458–1490, King of Bohemia 1469–1490) as King of Hungary and Bohemia ,with the raven of the Hunyadi family in the inescutcheon (first heraldic painter)
Possessor, provenience: Matthias Corvinus (although the ms. was originally not intended for him, cf. the unidentified coat-of-arms under that of Matthias), arrived at the Augsburg library of Johann Jakob Fugger (1516–1575) on 20 November 1560 from Ingolstadt, perhaps from the estate of Bartholomäus Amantius (?–1556?), from 1571 in the Munich court library
Binding: original silk binding, gauffered-gilded edge
Language of corvina: Latin
Condition: restored