Porphyrio: Commentaria et interpretationes in opera Horatii
The data sheet is partly based on: CSAPODI, Csaba, The Corvinian Library. History and Stock [transl. GOMBOS, Imre] (Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1973) 331., CSAPODI Csaba, CSAPODINÉ GÁRDONYI Klára, Bibliotheca Corviniana. 4. bőv., átd. kiad. (Budapest: Helikon, 1990) 49., and the detailed description of the manuscript: PONTONE, Marzia, “Collezionismo di Corvine in casa Trivulzio. Appunti sui codici Trivulziano 817 e Trivulziano 818”, in ZSUPÁN, Edina, ed., A Home of Arts and Muses. The Library of King Matthias Corvinus. De Bibliotheca Corviniana. Supplementum Corvinianum 4. (Budapest: Bibliotheca Nationalis Hungariae, 2017.), 21–31.
DATA SHEET
Shelfmark: Cod. No 818Country: Italy
City: Milan
Keeper location: Biblioteca Trivulziana
Digitized corvina: at the keeper location
Author: Pomponius Porphyrion (early third century); Pseudo-Helenius Acron
Content: Pomponius Porphyrion: Commentaria et interpretationes in opera Horatii; Pseudo-Acron: Interpretationes in opera Horatii
Writing medium: parchment
Number of sheets: I + 303 + I*
Sheet size: 347 × 235 mm
Place of writing: Florence
Date of writing: 1488–1489
Scriptor: Bartolomeo Fonzio (1446–1513)
Illuminator: Attavante degli Attavanti (1452–1517/1525)
Place of illumination: Florence
Date of illumination: 1488–1489
Crest: the coat-of-arms of Matthias Corvinus (King of Hungary 1458–1490, King of Bohemia 1469–1490) has been repainted, and now the Hungarian coat of arms with the Árpád stripes is in its place, as seen on an original illustration on the opposite page (fol. 1. v.). In both cases it begins with a silver band, unconventionally. On the title-page, circular shields bear the Árpád stripes (seven bands), the Hungarian double cross, the arms of Vienna and Austria. Amongst the emblems of Matthias, a dragon resembling the emblem of the Order of the Dragon can also be seen on the title page. The arms on the binding are no longer recognisable.
Possessor, provenience: the book was commissioned by Matthias Corvinus, probably in the last two or three years of his life. We do not know when and how the book left the court of Buda after Matthias' death. The manuscript came into the possession of the Trivulzio family of Milan sometime in the late eighteenth century, together with the corvina Cod. No. 817, also kept in Milan, and the corvina Cod. Lat. 345 of the Hungarian National Library. The coat-of-arms of Matthias is repainted in the same style in all three manuscripts, using burgundy instead of red and dark blue instead of silver. The present manuscript was sold by Luigi Alberico Trivulzio (1868–1938) to the city of Milan in 1935.
Binding: original gilt corvina leather binding, gauffered-gilded edge
Language of corvina: Latin