The Corvina Library

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Illuminated missal from the Corvina Library of Matthias Corvinus, now in the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York
Missal of Domonkos Kálmáncsehi (1481). Made in Buda. Now in the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City.

“Matthias is dead—now books will be cheap in Europe!” So Lorenzo the Magnificent is said to have exclaimed on hearing of the passing of the King of Hungary, Matthias Corvinus, in 1490. Matthias was the man behind the famous Corvina Library in Budapest, “one of the most renowned libraries of the Renaissance world”.

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