PT Journal
AU Komorova, K
TI Ancient Books in the Private Library of the Bishop Zacharias Mosovsky (1542-1587)
SO Historica Olomucensia
PY 2014
BP 221
EP 236
VL 0
IS 88
DE Historical libraries; the private library of the bishop of Nitra Zacharias Mosovsky; a library's reconstruction; a reception of books of Ancient writers in the library; a representation of books of writers of Christian Ancient times; a presentation of books of Ancient writers and their comparison with the inheritance inventory of the library
AB The author of this paper focuses on a presentation of Ancient books in the private library of the bishop Zacharias Mosovsky (1542-1587). Zacharias Mosovsky belonged to prominent personalities of the religious life in Hungary in the 16th century and was a known bibliophile. During his life, he collected up to 900 titles into his library, where were various codices, incunables and rare prints of the 16th century. In the opening part, the author analysed a story of a library's reconstruction because books have been scattered into many domestic and foreign libraries due to heritage proceedings. The result of this heuristic work is presented by a monograph of this author. A lot of books of Ancient writers appeared in this library and this paper deals with the analysis of library's fund in accordance to the existence of these writings with the reference to records in the inheritance inventory of the library. The conclusion of this study also includes writers of Christian Ancient times who analogically belong to Ancient literature.
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