Digitized images of Hungarian manuscripts

On this page I am attempting to collect links to digitized medieval manuscripts and incunabula of Hungarian provenance or with content relevant to the Kingdom of Hungary. As a pilot-project, links to images of Corvinian manuscripts have been collected first. Below, you can also find links to luxury manuscripts from the Angevin period.

Bibliotheca Corviniana

The Bibliotheca Corviniana, the library put together by King Matthias Corvinus (1458-1490) was one of the largest libraries of medieval Europe. A humanist library, comprised largely of the works of classical authors, as well as modern historical and scientific works, the collection included a vast number of beautifully illuminated manuscripts. The library was dispersed soon after the death of the king, and today just over 200 volumes of it have been identified. An ambitious project aimed at the virtual reconstruction of the library has been started by the Széchényi National Library (Budapest). The Digital Corvina Library aims to gather all information and digital facsimiles of all of the surviving volumes from the library of King Matthias. Unfortunately, the site apparently has not been updated in several years. It now includes the digital facsimiles of all 36 Corvina volumes held at the National Library. Below you can find direct links to these, as well as to an additional 70 fully digitized Corvinian manuscripts, as well as to many additional images. Further information and bibliography is available on the Bibliotheca Corviniana Digitalis site.

Links to digitized manuscripts

Hungary

Budapest, Széchényi National Library

(34 Corvinian manuscripts, 2 incunabula)

Digital facsimile of one manuscript, with transcription and translations of text, and with commentary:

K 397; Carbo, Ludovicus: De Divi Matthiae regis laudibus rebusque gestis dialogus