The Raven King: Matthias Corvinus and the Fate of His Lost Library
by Tanner, Marcus
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- as new
- Hardcover
- Condition
- As New
- ISBN 10
- 0300120346
- ISBN 13
- 9780300120349
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Kraków, Poland
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About This Item
Yale University Press, 2008 8vo (24 cm), XXII, 265 pp, plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (ownership entry on the front free endpaper). "Seizing the Hungarian throne at the age of fifteen, Matthias Corvinus, the "Raven King,” was an effervescent presence on the fifteenth-century stage. A successful warrior and munificent art patron, he sought to leave as symbols of his strategic and humanist ambitions a strong, unified country, splendid palaces, and the most magnificent library in Christendom. But Hungary, invaded by Turkey after Matthias's death in 1490, yielded its treasures, and the Raven King’s exquisite library of two thousand volumes, witness to a golden cultural age, was dispersed first across Europe and then the world. The quest to recover this collection of sumptuously illuminated scripts provoked and tantalized generations of princes, cardinals, collectors, and scholars and imbued Hungarians with the mythical conviction that the restoration of the lost library would seal their country's rebirth. In this thrilling and absorbing account, drawing on a wealth of original sources in several languages, Marcus Tanner tracks the destiny of the Raven King and his magnificent bequest, uncovering the remarkable story of a life and library almost lost to history." (publisher's synopsosis)
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- Bookseller
- Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko (PL)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007528
- Title
- The Raven King: Matthias Corvinus and the Fate of His Lost Library
- Author
- Tanner, Marcus
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0300120346
- ISBN 13
- 9780300120349
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven
- Date Published
- 2008
- Bookseller catalogs
- Bibliography; Book collecting;
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Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
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Kraków
About Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
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