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A Mátyás Graduálé
The Gradual of King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary
National Széchényi Library, Budapest, Hungary. Cod. Lat. 424
Folio 184r
'O' INITIAL / 20th SUNDAY AFTER WHITSUN
Time symbol
Omnia, que fecisti nobis, domine, in uero iudicio fecisti, quia peccauimus tibi, et mandatis tuis non obediuimus; sed da gloriam nomini tuo, et fac nobiscum secundum multitudinem misericordie tue.
Daniel 3, 31, 29 & 35
An armoured Hungarian with war flail.
National Széchényi Library, Budapest
1480-1488. Probably made in Buda. Parchment.
The most richly illuminated manuscript in the Corvina collection is the second volume of a gradual containing the changing plainsong of the mass, probably used in the royal chapel. Besides the title-page, it was decorated with 46 large figural and numerous smaller initials. Some of the initials illustrate the passage of the Bible on which the liturgy is based, while others show scenes of secular life. Symbolical and emblematic images can also be found.