Livius: Historiarum ab urbe condita decas IV – Lucius Florus: Epitome historiarum
The codex is the third volume of a Livius series, commissioned by György Handó (c. 1430–1480) Grand Provost of Pécs and later Archbishop of Kalocs-Bács (1478). The other two volumes in the series are the following. First decade: Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Barb. Lat. 168; third decade: Verona, Biblioteca Capitolare, Cod. Lat. CXXXVI (124). All three volumes entered the Corvina Library later. [1] The third corvina of the Biblioteca Capitolare of Verona, containing the first decade of Livius (Biblioteca Capitolare, Cod. Lat. CXXXV (1253), does not belong to the series of György Handó, but was once in the possession of Johannes Vitéz de Zredna (c. 1408–1472), archbishop of Esztergom, as his autograph marginal notes attest. [2] The other codices of György Handó in the surviving stock of the Corvina Library are: Budapest, OSZK, Cod. Lat. 418., Cod. Lat. 438., Città del Vaticano, BAV, Barb. Lat. 168; London, British Library, Landsdowne Ms. 836, Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 224, Cod. 2384.[3] (Edina Zsupán)
[1] Pócs, Handó György 2016, Kat. 15.
[2] Csapodi-Gárdonyi, Die Bibliothek des Johannes Vitéz 1984, 114, Kat. 59).
[3] Pócs, Handó György 2016, Kat. 3, 4, 7, 9, 18, 19.
DATA SHEET
Shelfmark: Cod. Lat. CXXXVII. (125)Country: Italy
City: Verona
Keeper location: Biblioteca Capitolare
Author: Titus Livius; Lucius Florus
Content: Historiarum ab urbe condita decas IV, De bello Macedonico - Epitome historiarum, libri IV
Writing medium: parchment
Number of sheets: 208
Sheet size: 360 × 247 mm
Place of writing: Florence
Date of writing: 1450-1470
Scriptor: Hubertus W
Illuminator: probably a master from the circle of Cosimo Rosselli (cf. Pócs, Handó György 2016, Kat. 16)
Place of illumination: Florence
Date of illumination: 1450-1470
Crest: Handó György (c. 1430-1480) (cf. Pócs, Handó György 2016, Kat. 16)
Possessor, provenience: Handó György (cf. coat of arms); Nicolò Zénó purchased it from Istanbul in 1560; the great Veronese collector, count Mario Bevilacqua (1536-1593) bought it in 1569; Scipione Maffei (1675-1755); Veronese canon Francesco Muselli; Biblioteca Capitolare di Verona; it came into the possession of the French on 16 May 1797, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France (cf. stamps ff. 1v, 214v); Biblioteca Capitolare di Verona 1816. (Cf. Claudia Adami, Kat. 24, in: Nel segno del corvo 2002, 201-202)
Entries: only marginal glosses by the sribe; in contrast to the claim of Klára Csapodi-Gárdonyi (Die Bibliothek des Johannes Vitéz 1984, 115, ,Nr. 16), the codex doesn't have any notes by Johannes Vitéz de Zredna
Binding: original gilded leather corvina binding, gilded edges
Language of corvina: Latin
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