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Johannes Alexander Brassicanus (1500?-1539) was the one of the humanists
most attentive to the corvinas at the very beginning of the 16th century. He also
published a Lucianus volume in 1527.° The Hungarian literature suggests that a
lost Corvina codex might have been the basis of the edition, though it is not men¬
tioned in the dedication to imperial councillor Markus Bôck von Leopoldsdorf.
This is strange since in the notes of the volume he refers to his visit to Buda in
1525.40 Indeed, if he had stolen the codex it would not have been advisable even in
1527 to write about it and explain how he obtained it. In any case, however he got
a few volumes, he saved them from almost certain destruction. The first printed
report on his visit to Buda and the library was published in 1530 (in the Salvianus
edition). More on this below.
ipsa provenbia... recens autem ex Jamblicho... latina facta..., Viennae, Hieronymus Vietor, 1529 (ONB 74
W 106/3.)
8 Lucianus, Aliquot exquisitae lucubrationes, trad. Johannes Alexander Brassicanus, Viennae Austriae,
Johannes Singrenius, 1527 (OSZK App. H. 193.) - Csaropt 1973, Nr. 412.
40 In it he mentions seeing the works of Marcus Monachus Anachoreta, a fifth-century Greek monk:
Csaropı 1973, Nr. 419.
4 SALVIANUS (ed. BrassicaNnus) 1530.
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