Anjou Legendarium

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St. Ladislaus in the Anjou Legendarium

The Anjou Legendarium is a Gothic illuminated manuscript from the early 14th century. It is a collection of stories of saints that were of great importance to the House of Anjou .

Details

The Legendarium is a picture book intended for children in which short texts describe the scenes depicted in the picture. The painters of this work of art came from Bologna and drew it in the style of the Trecento . It was made for Andreas of Hungary , who was only three years old at the time , and it contains an expanded version of the Legenda aurea - with the lives of the Hungarian and Polish saints.

Current condition

The main part of the manuscript is in the Vatican Library (Vat. Lat. 8541), twenty sheets in the Morgan Library and five sheets in the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg .

literature

• Gyöngyi Török: New Folii from the "Hungarian Anjou Legendarium" . In: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 55th Vol., H. 4 (1992), pp. 565-577 ( preview at JSTOR )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Monumenta ecclesiae Strigoniensis. Vol. 2. Esztergom 1882, pp. 27-28
2. ^ Libraries in Hungary
3. ↑ The St. Ladislaus legend in the Hungarian Anjou Legendarium, Vatican Library

Web links

Commons : Anjou-Legendarium  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Publications on the Anjou Legendarium in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii