Taddeo Ugoleto’s Marginal Notes on his Brand-new Crastonus Dictionary

Bolonyai, Gábor (2011) Taddeo Ugoleto’s Marginal Notes on his Brand-new Crastonus Dictionary. In: Matthias Corvinus und seine Zeit. Europa am Übergang vom Mittelalter zur Neuzeit zwischen Wien und Konstantinopel. Veröffentlichungen zur Byzanzforschung. Akademie Verlag, Wien, pp. 119-154.

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Abstract

Serving as royal librarian and tutor to János Corvinus, Matthias’ illegitimate son and heir, Taddeo Ugoleto played a key role in defining the general character and the actual holdings of Matthias’ library. Although Ugoleto was widely acknowledged as a humanist of deep education by his contemporaries, he appears to us as a ghost figure, since apart from his text editions and a few letters, none of his writings have survived. This makes the notes and dictionary entries he put down propria manu on the pages of his copy of the Lexicon Graeco-Latinum edited by Johannes Crastonus in 1483 and now preserved in Vienna (ÖNB Ink. X. E. 9.) even more precious and significant. The aim of this paper is twofold. First, through a detailed examination of his glosses and additions, an attempt will be made to gauge Ugoleto’s knowledge of Greek and philological erudition. Secondly, these notes also allow us to make certain assumptions about his readings, map his fields of interest, and even identify a couple of books, presumably all belonging to the royal library, that must have been available to him while writing.

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