The data sheet is partly based on: CSAPODI, Csaba, The Corvinian Library. History and Stock [transl. GOMBOS, Imre] (Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1973) 337., CSAPODI Csaba, CSAPODINÉ GÁRDONYI Klára, Bibliotheca Corviniana. 4. bőv., átd. kiad. (Budapest: Helikon, 1990) 47.
DATA SHEET
Shelfmark: G. I. 44. – Deissmann 44 Country: Turkey City: Istanbul Keeper location: Topkapi Serai Author: Claudius Ptolemy (c. 90–c. 168) Content: Geographia Writing medium: parchment Number of sheets: II + 98 + II*, the first sheet is missing Sheet size: 557 × 415 mm Place of illumination: Florence Date of illumination: circa 1450 Possessor, provenience: Johannes de Zredna (1408?–1472); Matthias Corvinus (King of Hungary 1458–1490, King of Bohemia 1469–1490) Binding: 19th century Turkish leather binding (before the rebinding, the 'Agnus Dei' symbol was still visible on the mountings of the cover) Language of corvina: Latin
