Bibliotheca Corviniana

The Bibliotheca Corviniana was one of the most important libraries of the Renaissance, founded by Matthias Corvin, king of Hungary of 1458 with 1490.

Presentation

Matthias Corvin, one of the most powerful princes of the time, approximately collects books since 1460. With died of the king, the library includes/understands approximately 3 000 codices - called corvinæ - are 4 000 with 5 000 works, mainly of traditional Greeks and Latin.

The bibliotheca Corviniana was thus the second library of Europe after the Vaticane : it impressed strongly the contemporaries and was used as model with several other princes, of which Laurent Splendid the.

The works are destroyed or dispersed during the invasion of the major part of the Hungary by the Turks. One preserves currently approximately 650 corvinæ , in Hungarian libraries (of which the National library Széchényi) and foreign.

The National library Széchényi works to study and reconstitute numerically the Biblioteca Corviniana .

External bond

and Bibliotheca Corviniana digitalis

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