Bibliotheca Palatina

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For Palatine Library in Parma, see Biblioteca Palatina, Parma.
Codex Manesse: Konrad von Altstetten.
Illustration from the Buch der Heiligen Dreifaltigkeit, 1565-1585
Kaiser and three crowned men kneeling in front of him, 1565-1585
Frederick II as depicted in De arte venandi cum avibus

The Bibliotheca Palatina ("

Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana
at the Vatican.

The important collection of German-language manuscripts have shelf-marks beginning cpg (older usage: Cod. Pal. ger., for "Codices Palatini germanici"), while the vast Latin manuscript collection has shelf-marks with cpl (or Cod. Pal. lat., for "Codices Palatini latini").

Foundation

In the 1430s, Elector

Lorsch Evangelary", the Falkenbuch (De arte venandi cum avibus, cpl 1071, commissioned by Frederick II), and the Codex Manesse
(cpg 848)

Further important manuscripts were acquired from the collection of

Joseph Scaliger considered this Fugger Library superior to that owned by the Pope; the manuscripts alone were valued at 80,000 crowns, a very considerable sum in the 16th century.[3]

Thirty Years War

The Palatinate suffered heavily in the

Count von Tilly was in the employ of Maximilian of Bavaria. As book plundering was a source of both Catholic and Protestant cultural triumph during the Thirty Year's War, the occupiers jostled for control of the library.[2]

Maximilian originally wanted to add the Bibiliotheca Palatina to his own library in Munich.

Gregory XV convinced Maximilian to present the remaining manuscripts to the Vatican as "a sign of his loyalty and esteem"[4] and to support his claim to the Palatinate's electoral title.[2] The preparations to secure transport the collection to Rome were supervised by the Greek scholar Leo Allatius
, sent to Heidelberg by the Vatican.

The Bibliotecha was a prominent prize captured during the Thirty Years' War. The victors were concerned not just with carrying away the collection and thus stripping the Calvinist party of one of its most important intellectual symbols; they also had wanted to eliminate all documentation of the library's provenance. The capture of the Palatine library was a carefully orchestrated symbolic act of looting in the Thirty Years' War, and triggered further acts of similar confiscations throughout the course of the hostilities.[1]

Thus, as of 1623, the entire remaining library had been incorporated into the

Wittelsbach
arms.

By the

University of Heidelberg
.

For the University Jubilee, some other books were temporarily brought back from the Vatican and were displayed at the Heiliggeistkirche in 1986.

See also

  • Index of Vatican City-related articles

References

  1. ^
    JSTOR 3648986
    .
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-9004183568
    .
  3. ^ a b c The Classical Journal for March and June 1816, page 212.
  4. ^ Luther: Lectures on Romans, ed. by Wilhelm Pauck. Westminster John Knox Press, 1961.
    ISBN 0-664-24151-4
    . Page xxii.

Further reading

External links

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