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535Other Patrons of Architecture Charles [Fig. 10.34].30 His interest in Roman civilization also expressed itself in the acquisition of antiquities such as inscriptions and sculpture.31 He was also interested in the history of the Late Roman Empire and its textual sourc- es, and managed to acquire the famous Codex Argenteus, containing Wulfila’s Gothic Bible translation, for the Imperial library [Fig. 10.35].32 In addition he published on the laws of his homeland, Lower Austria. In view of his interests and erudition it is not surprising that at one point his functions included the supervision of the Imperial library. Merely in view of his position Strein would have had access to Strada’s Musaeum, but sharing many interests it is possible that they maintained informal contacts—the more so because, just as Strada and Teuffenbach, they 30 Gentium et familiarum Romanorum stemmata. Richardo Streinnio barone Suuarzenauio auctore, [Geneva] 1559 (published by Henri Estienne with the type of Ulrich Fugger); De gentibus et familiis Romanorum, Venetiis [Aldus Manutius] 1571. 31 These included two inscriptions from Ravenna, which Strein had obtained from the col- lection of Matthäus Cardinal Lang von Wellenburg, Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg, and an inscription from Lorch (Lauricum); cf. Langeder 2009. 32 Now in Uppsala University Library; cf. Unterkirchner 1968, p. 72; cf. H.F. Massmann, ‘Gothica minora’ in Zeitschrift für deutsches Alterthum 1, 1841, pp. 294–393, esp. pp. 315–319; Dorothea Diemer, ‘ein adenlichs hausgerette, und nit jedermans Ding’: zum Schicksal des Codex Argenteus Upsaliensis im 16 Jahrhundert’, in Diemer/ Diemer/ Sauerländer 2008, 3, pp. 331–344. Figure 10.33 Anonymous, Reichard Strein von Schwarzenau, from the portrait book of Hieronymus Beck; Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum. Figure 10.34 Reichard Strein’s De gentibus familiis Romanorum, printed by Paulus Manutius in 1571. Figure 10.35 A page from the Codex Argenteus, the Gothic bible translation acquired by Strein for the Imperial library.