Seneca, Thomas: Historia Bononiensis de gestis Galeatti Marescotti …
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., 88–90.
DATA SHEET
Shelfmark: Clm 341Country: Germany
City: Munich
Keeper location: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Digitized corvina: at the keeper location
Author: anonymous author; Tommaso Seneca da Camerino (c. 1390–1472); Gaspare Tribraco de' Trimbocchi (1439–c. 1493)
Content: poem inscribed by a contemporary hand on the front pastedown; Tommaso Seneca da Camerino: Historiae Bononiensis; Gaspare Tribraco de' Trimbocchi: Carmina ad Galeatium Marescottum
Writing medium: parchment
Number of sheets: 64
Sheet size: 246 × 174 mm
Place of writing: Ferrara
Date of writing: circa 1460
Illuminator: first heraldic painter (coat-of-arms of Matthias Corvinus)
Place of illumination: Ferrara; Buda (coat-of-arms of Matthias Corvinus)
Date of illumination: circa 1460; 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; coat-of-arms of Matthias Corvinus as King of Hungary and Bohemia, without inescutcheon, on both front and back covers
Possessor, provenience: the decoration suggests that the manuscript was made in Ferrara; it may have been transferred to the library of Matthias Corvinus from the library of Johannes de Zredna (1408?–1472) after the latter's death; whether it was part of the Fugger library is doubtful; it can be found in the 1582 catalogue of the Munich court library, although not as a corvina
Binding: original corvina leather binding, gauffered-gilded edge
Language of corvina: Latin
Condition: restored (early twentieth century)