The Austrian National Library holds manuscripts from the library of Matthias I Corvinus, whose collection was dispersed after the Turks captured his capital, Buda, in 1526.
Sources
- Library of Congress (britannica.com)
- https://clariah.at/en/projects/cataloguing-manuscripts-library-matthias-corvinus-austria/ (clariah.at)
- https://www.tertullian.org/articles/csapodi_corviniana.htm (tertullian.org)
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