Celsus: De medicina libri octo
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., 77–79.
DATA SHEET
Shelfmark: Clm 69Country: Germany
City: Munich
Keeper location: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Digitized corvina: at the keeper location
Author: A. Cornelius Celsus (c. 25 BC–c. 50 AD)
Content: De medicina libri octo
Writing medium: parchment
Number of sheets: 217
Sheet size: 282 × 195 mm
Place of writing: Florence
Date of writing: c. 1465
Illuminator: Francesco di Antonio del Chierico (1433–1484); second heraldic painter (coat-of-arms of Matthias Corvinus)
Place of illumination: Florence; Buda (coat-of-arms of Matthias Corvinus)
Date of illumination: c. 1465; late 1480s (coat-of-arms of Matthias Corvinus)
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 (second heraldic painter)
Possessor, provenience: the manuscript was decorated in Florence in the workshop of Francesco di Antonio del Chierico, by the master himself; Matthias Corvinus; from the middle of the sixteenth century in the library of Johann Jakob Fugger (1516–1575) in Augsburg; from 1571 in the Munich court library
Binding: original velvet corvina binding, painted-gilded edge
Language of corvina: Latin
Condition: restored (1959)