by Béla Zsolt Szakács
Central European University Press, 2016
Cloth: 978-963-7326-25-7 | eISBN: 978-615-5225-00-0 (PDF)
Library of Congress Classification ND3385.M3S82 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification 745.6709439

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Dispersed in two continents, four countries and six collections; many of its pages were cropped, cut into four, or lost forever; its history, origin, commissioner and audience are obscure; still, in its fragmented state it presents fifty-eight legends in abundant series of images, on folios fully covered by miniatures, richly gilded, using only one side of the fine parchment; a luxurious codex worthy of a ruler; a unique iconographic treasury of medieval legends; one of the most significant manuscripts of the medieval Hungarian Kingdom – these are all what we call the Hungarian Angevin Legendary.

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