| 1498 Illumination on parchment Biblioth?que Nationale, Paris The library of Matthias, King of Hungary was seized by the Turks in 1526 and brought to Constantinople. The later scattered library became a legend of the humanists. Presently the number of the known volumes (corvinas) is above 200. Originally the library had about 1000 volumes. , MINIATURIST, Hungarian , Cassianus Corvina (one of the pages) , 1451-1500 , Hungarian , illumination , historical |
