Hungary can receive the Florentine Humanist Codex, which presents the Matthias Library
According to a draft pending before the parliament, it would be handed over to Hungary in the second half of the 15th century by Naldus Naldius, entitled “Epistola de laudibus augustae bibliothecae atque libri quatuor versibus scripti eodem argumento ad serenissimum Mathiam Corvinum Panoniae regem”.
The code is currently owned by the Vojvodina Library in Torun, Central Poland.
The draft is written by Piotr Babinetz, a representative of PiS, who is also the chairman of the cultural committee of the lower house and the chairman of the council of the Polish-Hungarian Cooperation Institute Waclaw Felczak.
The reason for the draft was that by handing over the code, Poland could express its gratitude that Hungary handed over the II. The gilded children’s armor of the Polish king Ágost Zsigmond, which is kept in the collection of the National Museum in Budapest.
The donation of a work of art “of extraordinary value” to Hungarian history and national identity would mean “a return to the gesture of friendship of the Hungarian nation” – the draft reads. The authors note that the codex is a valuable element of Polish collections, but “not closely related to Polish history” is “extremely valuable evidence for Hungary of the cultural and national heritage associated with the person of King Matthias Corvin”.
The handover process would be coordinated on behalf of the Polish state by the Chief of Staff of the Warsaw Prime Minister’s Office.
According to the volume Edited by István Monok, published in 2004, Naldo Naldi’s (Latin: Naldus Naldius) Codex in Florence is King Matthias’s Buda Library, one of the most important sources in the history of the Bibliotheca Corviniana. . included in the catalog. Naldus wrote the work based on a report and list by Corvina librarian Taddeo Ugoleto.
Opening image: Carbo-corvina codex from 1473-1475. MTI / Bruzák Noémi