 | Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1824 - 488 pages
...Bozmanni offered for the redemption of this inestimable collection, two hundred thousand pieces of the Imperial money : yet without effect; for the barbarous...silver bosses and clasps with which they were enriched p. The learned Obsopaeus relates, k SeePetr.j'aenichiiNoTiT.BiBLioTH. lian poets. Lambeccius says,... | |
 | John Platts - Biography - 1826 - 632 pages
...offered for the redemption of this inestimable collection, 200,000 pieces of the imperial money, but without effect ; for the barbarous besiegers defaced...silver bosses and clasps with which they were enriched. LADISLAUS VI., king of Hungary son of Casimir IV., of Poland, was chosen king of Bohemia in 1470, and... | |
 | John Platts - Biography - 1826 - 624 pages
...offered for the redemption of this inestimable collection, 200,000 pieces of the imperial money, but without effect ; for the barbarous besiegers defaced...silver bosses and clasps with which they were enriched. LADISLAUS VI., king of Hungary son of Casimir IV., of Poland, was chosen king of Bohemia in 1470, and... | |
 | Charles Henry Timperley - Booksellers and bookselling - 1839 - 1266 pages
...cardinal Bozmanni offered for this inestimable collection 200,000 pieces of the imperial money, but without effect, for the barbarous besiegers defaced or destroyed most of the books, for the sake of their splendid covers, and the silver bosses and clasps with which they were enriched.... | |
 | Turkey - 1799 - 348 pages
...collection, but without effect. Most of the books were defaced or destroyed, for the sake of their splendid covers and the silver bosses and clasps with which they were adorned. Those which escaped the rapacity of the soldiery were thrown into a vault, and there left... | |
 | Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1870 - 1070 pages
...cardinal Bozmanni offered for the redemption of this inestimable collection, 200,000 pieces of the Imperial money : yet without effect, for the barbarous...the silver bosses and clasps with which they were enriched4. The learned Obsopaeus relates, that a book was brought him by an Hungarian soldier, which... | |
 | Edward Tanjore Corwin - Digital images - 1872 - 346 pages
...pieces of the imperial money, but without effect; for the barbarous besiegers destroyed or defaced most of the books in the violence of seizing the splendid...bosses and clasps with which they were enriched." After Matthias's death, the whole of Hungary rapidly degenerated, and was, for a while, merged in Austria.... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1877 - 330 pages
...collection, but without effect. Most of the books were defaced or destroyed, for the sake of their splendid covers and the silver bosses and clasps with which they were adorned. Those which escaped the rapacity of the soldiery were thrown into a vault, and there left... | |
 | Halkett Lord, Richard Halkett - American literature - 1886 - 432 pages
...Cardinal Boznianni offered for this inesti. mable collection 200,000 pieces of the imperial money, but without effect, for the barbarous besiegers defaced or destroyed most of the books for the sake of their splendid covers, and the bosses or clasps with which they were enriched. This... | |
 | James Townley - Bible - 1891 - 544 pages
...Cardinal Bozmanni offered for this inestimable collection 200,000 pieces of the imperial money, but without effect, for the barbarous besiegers defaced or destroyed most of the books, for the sake of their splendid covers, and the silver bosses and clasps with which they were enriched.... | |
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Florentine, the writer of many philological works3, and a professor of Greek and oratory at Florence. When Buda was taken by the Turks in the year 1526, cardinal Bozmanni offered for the redemption of this inestimable collection, 200,000 pieces of the... 