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[[Image:Corvina Codex Mathias rex portrait.jpg|right|thumbnail|260px|[[Matthias Corvinus]], King of [[Hungary]]]]

'''Bibliotheca Corviniana''' was one of the most renowned libraries of the [[Renaissance]] world, established by [[Matthias Corvinus]], King of [[Hungary]] and [[Croatia]] between 1458 and 1490. It was destroyed during the [[Ottoman empire|Ottoman]] invasions in 152

Matthias, one of the most powerful rulers of the age, started to collect the books from about 1460. At the king's death, the library consisted of about 3,000 [[codices]] or "Corvinae" which included 4,000-5,000 works, many of classical Greek and Latin authors. It represented the literary production and reflected the state of knowledge and arts of the Renaissance and included philosophy, theology, history, law, literature, geography, natural sciences, medicine, architecture, etc. The [[Ottoman Hungary| Turkish invasion of much of Hungary]] in the 16th century destroyed the codices.<ref>Matthew Landrus, ''Leonardo Da Vinci's Giant Crossbow'', (Springer Verlag, 2010), 49.</ref><ref> Alfred Burns, ''The Power of the Written Word: The Role of Literacy in the History of Western Civilization'', (Peter Lang, 1989), 228.</ref> Only about 650 Corvinae survived, now in several libraries in Hungary and Europe.