Tacitus: Annalium libri XI-XVII – Historiarum libri I-IV

The manuscript was copied and illuminated in Florence.
On the margins there are notes of Johannes Vitez of Zredna (1408?–1472), archbishop of Esztergom. At the end of the volume, he recorded the place and the year of his reading:
“Jo[hannes] Ar[chiepiscopus Strigoniensis] legi transcurrendo 1467 sed mansit inemendatus”.
(“I read it through in 1467 but remained unfinished. Joannes archbishop.”)
(Edina Zsupán)

Source: The Corvina Library and the Buda Worskhop: [National Széchényi Library, November 6, 2018 –February 9, 2019] A Guide to the Exhibition; introduction and summary tables: Edina Zsupán; object descriptions: Edina Zsupán, Ferenc Földesi; English translation: Ágnes Latorre, Budapest: NSZL, 2018, p. 158

For a detailed codex description see:

Dániel Pócs, P. Cornelius Tacitus: Évkönyvek XI-XVI. – Korunk története I-IV. (Annales XI-XVI; Historiae I-IV), in: Edina Zsupán (ed.), “Az ország díszére”. A Corvina könyvtár budai műhelye, kiállítási katalógus, Budapest, OSZK 2020, Kat.-No F12, 323-328.

DATA SHEET

Shelfmark: Cod. Lat. 9.
Country: Hungary
City: Budapest
Keeper location: University Library, Eötvös Loránd University
Author: Tacitus
Content: Annales XI–XVI; Historiae I–IV
Writing medium: parchment
Number of sheets: II + 134 fol.
Sheet size: 355 × 255 mm
Place of writing: Florence
Date of writing: c. 1451-1453
Scriptor: Dominicus Cassii di Narnia, unsigned Cf. Albinia de La Mare, New Research on Humanistic Scribes in Florence, in: Annarosa Garzelli (a cura di), Miniatura Fiorentina del Rinascimento 1440-1525. Un primo censimento, 2 vols, Florence 1985, vol. 1, 395-600, 492, No 15/4.
Illuminator: Gioacchhino de Gigantibus Cf. José Ruysschaert, Miniaturistes 'romains' sous Pie II, in: D. Maffei (a cura di), Enea Silvio Piccolomini Papa Pio II. Siena, Accademia Senese degli Intronati, Atti del Convegno per il quinto centenario della morte e altri scritti raccolti, Varese 1968, 245-282 (281, n. 221).
Place of illumination: Rome
Date of illumination: c. 1451-1453
Crest: King Matthias' Hungarian and Bohemian royal coat-of-arms by the "second heraldic painter", Buda, late 1480s (painted over the coat-of-arms of Cardinal Francesco Condulmer (c. 1390-1453) cf. Pócs 2020, see above)
Possessor, provenience: Cardinal Francesco Condulmer (c. 1390-1453) cf. Pócs 2020 (see above); Johannes Vitéz de Zredna (c. 1408-1472 archbishop of Esztergom, chancellor); King Matthias Hunyadi; Ottoman sultans; it was returned to Hungary as a present of Abdul Hamid, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire in 1877.
Entries: On the margins there are notes of Johannes Vitéz of Zredna (c. 1408–1472), archbishop of Esztergom. At the end of the volume, he recorded the place and the year of his reading: "Jo[hannes] Ar[chiepiscopus Strigoniensis] legi transcurrendo 1467 sed mansit inemendatus." (f. 133v)
Binding: 19th-century, paper board, red Turkish leather binding. Originally bound in violet velvet; the name of the author on the Buda-style fore edge reads: CORNELIUS TACITUS
Language of corvina: Latin
Condition: Restored (NSZL, Ágnes Ádám and Mária Czigler, 1989)