Monica Avram, Florin Bogdan, An unknown Incunabulum from Teleki-Bolyai Library of Tîrgu-Mureş
An Unknown Incunabulum from Teleki-Bolyai Library of Tîrgu-Mureş
Collection of incunabula belonging to Teleki-Bolyai Library from Tîrgu-Mureş includes 69 copies, out of which the audience knows 68 copies. On initiating their classification to the National Cultural Heritage it was discovered, in the colligation containing works of Florentine preacher Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498) printed in the incunabular period, a text of 8 pages representing the work entitled Exposizione sopra el psalmo Verba mea [Florence, 1498], a unique copy in the Romanian area. The theological work, Exposizione sopra el psalmo Verba mea [Florence, 1498], was attributed to Simone Cinozzi or Placido Cinozzi, because its printing was realised after the death of Savonarola, from 1498. By the 8 pages, part of the colligation from Tîrgu-Mureş, we assume that the copy is complete; within our approach of identification relevant was also information obtained from specialists from Cambridge University Library, Bibliothèque Nationale de France or Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart. This study is a contribution to knowing the fund of incunabula existent in Romania, the copy being new, unpublished, but also at global level, only other 18 copies being known.
Keywords: Teleki-Bolyai Library Tîrgu-Mureş, incunabulum, Savonarola, Florence, XVth century
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