Porphyrios: Bios Plótinu
The source of the data sheet is the detailed description of the manuscript: HAJDÚ, Kerstin, “Mit glücklicher Hand errettet? Zur Provenienzgeschichte der griechischen Corvinen in München”, 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.), 29–67.
On Janus Pannonius and the manuscript:
CSAPODI Csaba, “Janus Pannonius könyvei és pécsi könyvtára”, in KARDOS Tibor, V. KOVÁCS Sándor, szerk., Janus Pannonius. Tanulmányok. Memoria saeculorum Hungariae 2. (Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1975.), 189–208., 200.
PAJORIN Klára, “Ex Bibliotheca Corviniana. Die acht Münchener Handschriften aus dem Besitz von König Matthias Corvinus. Hrsg. von Claudia Fabian und Edina Zsupán. Bp. 2008” (review). Magyar Könyvszemle 124. (2008) 3. sz., 358–359.
DATA SHEET
Shelfmark: Cod. Graec. 449Country: Germany
City: Munich
Keeper location: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Digitized corvina: at the keeper location
Author: Porphyry (233/234–301/305); Plotinus (204/205-270)
Content: Porphyry: Peri tu Plotinu biu kai tes taxeós ton biblión autu; Plotinus: Enneades
Writing medium: paper
Number of sheets: III + 264
Sheet size: 280 × 190 mm
Place of writing: Gortyna, Crete (fol. 14. r.–fol. 262. v.)
Date of writing: 1464/1465 (fol. 14. r.–fol. 262. v.)
Scriptor: Michael Lygizos (fol. 1. r.–fol. 13. v.), Demetrios Triboles (fol. 14. r.–fol. 262. v.)
Place of illumination: Gortyna, Crete (fol. 14. r.–fol. 262. v.)
Date of illumination: 1464/1465 (fol. 14. r.–fol. 262. v.)
Possessor, provenience: the complete manuscript was probably written in Crete; research suggests that the manuscript once belonged to Janus Pannonius (see the articles of Csaba CSAPODI and Klára PAJORIN mentioned above) and that it was transferred to the library of Matthias Corvinus (King of Hungary 1458–1490, King of Bohemia 1469–1490) after his death; Ferdinand I (King of Hungary 1526–1564, Holy Roman Emperor from 1556) gave the volume to Jakob Schegk (1511–1587), from whom it was inherited by his grandson, the jurist Johann Jakob Schegk (?–1599?), who donated it to the city of Augsburg in 1595, and it was already included in the first catalogue of the city library, published in 1600; as part of the Augsburg City Library's holdings, it was transferred to the Munich court library in 1806
Binding: original leather binding (Crete, 15th century)
Language of corvina: Greek