UNKNOWN CABINETMAKER, Hungarian
(active c. 1480 at Bártfa)

Library chest

c. 1480
Wood
Hungarian National Museum, Budapest

This chest is the masterpiece of medieval carpentry in Hungary. It was made for the church of St Egidius at Bártfa in Upper Hungary. The library of the parish church had about 30 books at the end of the fifteenth century.




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