Old Romanian Book in the Habsburg Empire (1691-1830)

Research on Old Romanian books has a history of over one century, of one century and a half, to be more specific, in the Romanian cultural space. Old Romanian books, periodized in the Romanian space between 1508 and 1830, have so far not been the subject of research in a European context, with the exception of a few comparative surveys with the neighbouring countries. These surveys suggest the conclusion that from 1691 to 1830 (from the beginning of Habsburg rule in Transylvania to the upper conventional limits of Old Romanian literature) the evolution of culture, illustrated by the production of books, took place in a South-Eastern and Western European cultural context. Given these coordinates and referring globally to the concept of the investigation, the aim of this book is to acquire in-depth knowledge about the image, the content and the role of the Romanian books printed in the Habsburg Empire, in the Romanian language, regardless of the place of their publication, and about the books printed by Romanian authors, regardless of the language in which they were published, in the same geographical space of Transylvania, from 1691 to 1830

A Precursor of Romanian Transylvanian Fiction. Vasile Aaron redivivus

There was a great enlightener in Sibiu, at a time when Romanian culture had not exceeded the transitional phase into the modern age. The scholar’s cultural legacy outlines that his entire short life was „torn between laborious paragraphs of judicial codes and the unleashed reverie of poetry”. History of Romanian literature unjustly mentions Vasile Aaron among minor poets. Thus, two tireless literary historians from Sibiu, Liliana Maria Popa and Ioan-Nicolae Popa, have dedicated theirs lives to a purpose both noble and difficult to achieve: the restoration of Vasile Aaron’s entire work, which would delete the unjust „minor poet” label.

Keywords: Vasile Aaron, Liliana Maria Popa, Ioan-Nicolae Popa, pre-romantic enlightener, critical Edition, restored activity, literary writing, judicial text.

Aaron, Vasile, Patima şi moartea Domnului / Christ’s Vicarious Suffering and Death, ediţie îngrijită şi studiu introductiv de Liliana Maria Popa şi Ioan Nicolae Popa, prefaţă de Ioan Chindriş, Editura InfoArt Media, Sibiu, 2012 (cu o a doua ediţie în 2015, la Editura Curs din Cluj-Napoca).

Aaron, Vasile, Scrieri antume (1806–1821) / Writings Published during Vasile Aaron’s Life, ediţie îngrijită şi studiu introductiv de Liliana Maria Popa şi Ioan-Nicolae Popa, Editura Curs, ClujNapoca, 2013.

Chindriş, Ioan; Iacob, Niculina; Mârza, Eva; Tatay, Anca Elisabeta; Urs, Otilia; Crăciun, Bogdan; Moldovan, Roxana; Roman Negoi, Ana Maria, Cartea românească veche din Imperiul Habsburgic (16911830). Redescoperirea unei identităţi culturale / Old Romanian Book in the Habsburg Empire (1691– 1830).Recovery of a cultural identity, Editura Mega, Cluj-Napoca, 2016

Popa, Liliana Maria; Popa, Ioan Nicolae, Vasile Aaron (1780–1821). Studiu monografic / Vasile Aaron (1780–1821). Monographic Study, Editura InfoArt Media, Sibiu, 2011.

Popa, Liliana Maria; Popa, Ioan-Nicolae, „Viaţa omului, ca floarea câmpului”. Vasile Aaron. Reporta din Vis / ”Life of Man, as Flower of the Field”. Vasile Aaron. Report of Dreams, Editura Curs, Cluj-Napoca, 2016.

Popa, Liliana Maria; Popa, IoanNicolae, Vasile Aaron.

Miracole mitologice şi învăţături moral-creştine / Vasile Aaron. Mythological Miracles and Moral-Christian Teachings, Editura Curs, Cluj-Napoca, 2015.

Popa, Liliana Maria; Popa, Ioan-Nicolae, Vasile Aaron. Scrieri juridice inedite / Vasile Aaron. Unpublished Legal Writings, Editura Curs, Cluj-Napoca, 2014.

The Xilograph from old Romanian book printed in Bucharest (1582-1830)

Started as a personal research project of Mrs. Anca Elisabeta Tatay, funded by CNCS-UEFISCDI (PN-II-RU-PD-2012-3-0433), the present book became a model approach for others Romanian printing centers. The foundation of the book consists in analysis of dozens of books printed in various printing centers of Bucharest in 1582-1830.

Keywords: xylograph, old Romanian book, printing centers of Bucharest, bibliography, bibliology

The spreading of the books from the princely print houses from Alba Iulia (other than Cyrillic alphabet) XVIth-XVIIIth centuries

The spreading of the printed material from Alba Iulia is the most conclusive proof that the print houses from Alba Iulia influenced greatly their times. The fact that many books have survived in various libraries all over Europe confirms the wide dispersion of these prints.

Keywords: Transylvania, Europe, printing, library, books, dispersion

Books:

• Ecsedy V. Judit, A könyvnyomtatás Magyarországon a kézisajtó korában, 1473-1800 (The printing of books in Hungary in the times of manual printing), Budapest, Balassi kiadó, 1999.
• Jakó Zsigmond, Philobiblon transilvan (Transylvanian Philobiblon), Bucureşti, Kriterion, 1977.
• Mârza, Eva, Din istoria tiparului românesc. Tipografia de la Alba Iulia 1577-1702 (From the history of the Romanian printing. The printing house of Alba Iulia), Sibiu, Editura Imago, 1998.
• Nägler, Doina, Catalogul Transilvanicelor (Catalogue of Transylvanics), vol. I, Biblioteca Brukenthal, Sibiu, 1974.
• Régi Magyarországi Nyomtatványok (Old Hungarian Prints), (coord. Borsa Gedeon), I. 1473-1600, Budapest, Akadémiai Kiadó, 1971, II. 1601-1635, Budapest, Akadémiai Kiadó, 1983, III. 1636-1655, Budapest, Akadémiai Kiadó, 2000, IV. 1656-1670, Budapest, Akadémiai Kiadó, 2012.
• Sebestyén Mihály, Catalogus librorum sedecimo saeculo impressorum Bibliothecae Teleki-Bolyai Novum Forum Siculorum (Catalogue of sixteenth-century books of the Teleki-Bolyai Library in Târgu Mureş), Târgu Mureş, 2001.
• Szabó Károly, Régi Magyar Könyvtár (Old Hungarian Library), I. Az 1531–1711. megjelent magyar nyomtatványok könyvészeti kézikönyve (Handbook of the Hungarian books printed between 1531-1711), Budapest, 1879, II. Az 1473tól 1711-ig megjelent nem magyar nyelvű hazai nyomtatványok könyvészeti kézikönyve (Handbook of the books printed in our country in non-Hungarian language between 1473-1711), Budapest, 1885.
• Tamás Lajos, Fogarasi István kátéja. Fejezet a bánsági és hunyadmegyei ruménség művelődéstörténetéből (The Catechism of István Fogarasi. Chapter from the cultural history of the Banatand Hunedoara area Romanians) , Cluj-Napoca, 1942.

Magazine articles:

Csala Rita, „Tipăriturile albaiuliene din secolele XVIXVII în colecţia Bibliotecii Batthyaneum (The XVIXVII century prints from Alba Iulia in the collection of the Batthyaneum Library)”, în Buletinul Cercurilor Ştiinţifice Studenţeşti, Alba Iulia, 2000, nr. 6, p. 107-112.

Ecsedy V. Judit, „A gyulafehérvári fejedelmi nyomda eredete (The origins of the Prince’s print house from Alba Iulia)”, în Magyar Könyvszemle, nr. 1, 1975, p. 9-24.

Ecsedy V. Judit, „A gyulafehérvári fejedelmi nyomda első korszaka (The first period of the Prince’s print house from Alba Iulia) (1623—1636)” în Az OSZK Évkönyve 1974-1975, Budapesta, 1978, p. 349-421.

Ecsedy V. Judit, „A gyulafehérvári fejedelemi nyomda második korszaka (1637—1658) és utóélete (The second period of the Prince’s print house from Alba Iulia and its afterlife)”, în Az OSZK Évkönyve 1978, Budapesta, 1980, p. 291-341.

Fazakas József, „A XVII. századi erdélyi országgyűlési törvénycikkek nyomdai meghatározása (Establishing the provenance of XVIIth century Transylvanian Diet articles)”, în Magyar Könyvszemle, nr. 2-4, 1944, p. 201-205.

Mârza, Eva, „Transylvanica. Un obiect de studiu neglijat (Transylvanica. A neglected subject of study)”, în Transilvania, Sibiu, 2010, nr. 11-12, p. 1-3.

Mârza, Iacob, „Transylvanica la Bibliotheca Batthyaneum (I): cărţi de la Alba Iulia (Transylvanica in the Batthyaneum Library (I): Books from Alba Iulia)”, în Transilvania, nr. 11-12, 2010, Sibiu, p. 10-13.

Naményi Lajos, „A nagyváradi nyomdászat története (The history of printing in Oradea)”, în Magyar Könyvszemle, nr. 2, 1901, p. 170-182.

Viskolcz Noémi, „Johann Heinrich Bisterfeld és a gyulafehérvári tankönyvkiadás a XVII. Században (Johann Heinrich Bisterfeld and the printing of manuals in Alba Iulia in the XVIIth century)”, în Magyar Könyvszemle, nr. 3, 2002, p. 249-271.

Weisz Szidónia, „Öreg Graduál a Kistemplomból (Old Church Songbook from the Kistemplom)”, pe siteul http://www.vasarhely.ro/kulturter/oreg-gradualkistemplombol#.VfGbrBHtlHw accesat în 28.10.2015.

Zaharia, Adriana, „Tiparul transilvănean cu litere latine, 1525-1655 (The Latin alphabet printing in Transylvania, 1525-1655)”, în Transilvania, Sibiu, nr. 5-6, 2012, p. 6-9.

Romanian Cyrillic book collection – prints and manuscripts – from an ethnographic village museum from Arieş Valley. Contributions to Old Romanian Bibliography

Lupşa, a village in the upper Arieş valley, hosts a very interesting etnographic museum, the fruit of the local teacher Pamfil Albu’s livelong labour. The museum’s exhibits are illustrative for the life, occupations and traditions of the people living in this area of the Stone Fortress, the Apuseni Mountains. Also, very importantly, the museum hosts a small old Romanian book collection from the 17th and 19th centuries. This collection, having never undergone a systematic study before, makes the object of the present communication. By this, we aim to shed a well-deserved light upon this little cultural and historic treasure and to allow the 23 titles of the collection to become part of the larger informational and research network.

Keywords: Lupşa, etnographic museum, Pamfil Albu, old Romanian book collection

Andriescu, Bogdan şi Borş, Silviu, Cartea românească veche în colecţiile Bibliotecii Judeţene ASTRA Sibiu, 1801-1830.

Andrieş, Sabin, Pamfil Albu (1908-1990). Creatorul muzeului etnografic din Lupşa, în Antologia monografică „Lupşa – Aur şi oameni. O comună din Ţara Moţilor”, vol. II, Editura Pastel, Braşov, 2006.

Bianu, Ion, Hodoş, Nerva şi Simonescu, Dan, Bibliografia românească veche, volumele I-IV, Bucureşti, 1903-1944.

*** Cartea românească veche în Imperiul Habsburgic (16911830). Recuperarea unei identităţi culturale, Editura Mega, Cluj-Napoca, 2016.

*** Istoria României în date, Editura Enciclopedică Română, Bucureşti, 1972.

Lupu, Daniela, Tiparul şi cartea românească în epoca domniilor fanariote, Editura Muzeului municipiului Bucureşti, 2014.

Păcurariu Mircea, Listele cronologice ale ierarhilor Bisericii Ortodoxe Române, Editura Institutului biblic şi de misiune ortodoxă, Bucureşti, 1975.

Poenaru, Daniela, Contribuţii la Bibliografia românească veche, Târgovişte, 1943.

Râpă-Buicliu, Dan, Bibliografia românească veche, Additamenta I (1536-1830), Galaţi, Editura Alma, 2000.

*** Repertoriul tipografilor, gravorilor, patronilor, editorilor cărţilor româneşti (1508-1830), Ediţia a II-a, revăzută şi adăugită. Coordonatori: Eva Mârza, Florin Bogdan, Editura Astra Museum, Techno Media, Sibiu, 2013.

Tatai-Baltă, Cornel, Gravorii în lemn de la Blaj (17501830), Editura Eventus, Blaj, 1995.

Tatai, Anca Elisabeta, Din istoria şi arta cărţii româneşti vechi: Gravura de la Buda (1780-1830), Editura Mega, ClujNapoca, 2011.

Tatai, Anca Elisabeta, Tatai-Baltă, Cornel, Xilogravura din cartea românească veche tipărită la Bucureşti (1582-1830), Editura Mega, Cluj-Napoca, 2015.

Tatai, Anca Elisabeta, Xilogravura de la Sibiu (Sfârşitul secolului al XVIII-lea – începutul secolului al XIX-lea, Editura „Altip”, Alba Iulia, 2007.

The Catalogue of the Franciscan Friars’ Library from Orăştie (1888)

The work brings forth the catalogue of the library owned by the Franciscan Monastery from Orăştie, which was created, as understood from the title, in the 19th century. The document is a part of the Roman Catholic Parochial Fund from Orăştie, it is situated in the Archdiocesan Archives of Alba Iulia and it is named Catalogus Librorum V. Residentiae Szaszvarosensis P. P. Franciscanorum Aae Prov. S. Stephani Regis Apostolici anno 1888 confectus.

The investigation follows the description of the catalogue as well as studying the content of the library, with the purpose of discovering what was, at the time, the book universe on which, the lectors of the books located in the Franciscan Monastery from Orăştie, could rely upon.

The catalogue includes 613 titles, recorded in 7 categories: Philologia, Philosophia, Jus Civile, Theologia, Jus Ecclesiasticum, Regularia, Miscellanea. A great deal of the books were published in the 19th century, but evidence suggests that there was another fund of older books, printed in the 16th-18th century, which probably entered in the collection after the year 1730, when the conventual Franciscan life in the community resumed in Orăştie.

Keywords: Catalogue, Library, Franciscan Friars, Orăştie, 19th century, 16th-18th century books

Amlacher, Albert. Urkundenbuch zur Geschichte des Stadt und des Stuhles Broos bis zum Uebergang Siebenbürgens unter Erbfürsten aus dem hause Oesterreich (1690). Sibiu, 1879.

Barbier, Frédéric. Histoire des Bibliothèques d’Alexandrie aux bibliothèques virtuelles (History of libraries from Alexandria to virtual libraries). Paris, Armand Colin, 2013.

Catalogus Librorum V. Residentiae Szaszvarosensis P. P. Franciscanorum A[lm]aeProv[inciae]. S[ancti]. Stephani Regis Apostolici anno 1888 confectus, în Arhiva Arhiepiscopiei Romano-Catolice de Alba Iulia, Fond Parohia Orăştie, Dosar Actele mănăstirii franciscane Orăştie, cota 48/d-II.

Cathalogus Librorum Monasterii Orăştie – Szaszvaros, Anno Domini 1962, în Arhiva Arhiepiscopiei RomanoCatolice de Alba Iulia, Fond Inventarele parohiilor, Dosar 33, doc. 28.

Costin, Nicolae, Ceasornicul domnilor de Antonio de Guevara (Timepiece of Princes by Antonio de Guevara), ediţie critică şi studiu introductiv de Gabriel Ştrempel, Bucureşti, Minerva, 1976.

Emődi, András. A Szatmári Római Katolikus Egyházmegye Müemlékkönyvtárának régi állománya: katalógus (The old fund of monuments library of Roman Catholic Church diocese from Satu Mare – catalogue). Oradea, Varadinum Script, 2010.

Enciclopedie de filozofie şi ştiinţe umane (Encyclopedia of Philosophy and Social Sciences). Bucureşti, ALL Educational, 2004.

Govor, Maria. Biblioteci particulare din secolul al XVIIlea (Private libraries from XVIIth Century). În: Caietele David Prodan, Cluj-Napoca, I, 2, iulie-decembrie (1994), p. 7798.

Gudor, Kund, Botond. Istoricul Bod Péter (1712-1769) (The Historian Péter Bod – 1712-1769). Cluj-Napoca, Editura Mega, 2008.

György, Jószef. A Ferencrendiek Életeés Müködése Erdélyben (Life and activity of Franciscan’s Order from Transsylvania). Cluj-Kolozsvár, Szent Bonaventura Könyvnyomda Nyomása, 1930.

Kutschera, Rolf. Guvernatorii Transilvaniei, 1690-1774 (The Governors of Transylvania, 1690-1774). Cluj, Cartea românească din Cluj, 1943.

Mack, Peter. A History of Renaissance Rhetoric, 13801620. New York, 2011.

Mârza, Andreea. Prezenţa gramaticilor de limbă latină tipărite în Transilvania până în anul 1800 (The Presence of the Latin grammar books printed in Transylvania until 1800). În: Annales Universitatis Apulensis. Series Historica, 12/II, 2008, p. 60-77.

Mârza, Iacob. Lectori ai manualului de istorie al lui Martin Bolla: Semnificaţii culturale şi politice (Lecturers of Martin Bolla’s history book: Cultural and political senses). În: Sargetia, XVIIIXIX, 1984-1985, p. 373-389.

Nelson Burnett, Amy. Preaching and Printing in Germany on the Eve of the Thirty Years War. În: Walsby, Malcolm, Kemp, Graeme, ed., The Book Triumphant. Print in Transition in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Leiden, 2011.

Petrik, Géza. Bibliographia Hungariae, 1712-1860. vol. I-IV, Budapestini, Augustini Dobrowsky, 18881892.

Régi Magyarországi Nyomtatványok, 1601-1635 (Old Hungarian Printings. Budapest, Akadémiai Kiadó, 1983.

Rusu, Adrian, Andrei, coord.. Dicţionarul mănăstirilor din Transilvania, Banat, Crişana şi Maramureş (Dictionary of Monasteries from Transylvania, Banat, Crişana and Maramureş). Cluj-Napoca, Presa Universitară Clujeană, 2000.-

Suciu, Coriolan. Dicţionar istoric al localităţilor din Transilvania (Dictionary of history of localities from Transylvania). II, Bucureşti, Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, 1967.

Szinnyei, József. Magyar Írók Élete és Munkái (The life and works of hungarian writers), articol disponibil la adresa http://mek.oszk.hu/03600/03630/html/.

The Catholic Encyclopedia. articol disponibil la adresa http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07461a.htm.

Vollrath, Hans-Joachim. Kaspar Schotts Arithmetica Practica. În: Archivum historicum Societatis Iesu, 156, 2009, p. 443-471.

A Romanian manuscript made by honorary archdeacon Ioan Doboşi

Our article presents a manuscriptdrawn up in Medieşu Aurit (Satu Mare) in 1887 by honorary archdeacon Ioan Doboşi (1863-1937). The manuscript presents his beautifulpreoccupations to gather in a notebook poems written by consecrated and also less famous poets at the end of the 19th century.

The honored Greek-Catholic archpriest Ioan Doboşi, graduated from primary and secondary school in Satu Mare and he studied theology in Gherla, being ordained in 1887.He served in Bârsana (Maramureş), Turţ and Gherţa Mică (Satu Mare). An important fact is thatIoan Doboşi was a member of„Astra” and he was also presentat the Grand National Assembly on the 1st of December 1918 with his son Ioan, a future lawyer.

Keywords: manuscript, poems, Greek-Catholic priest, Satu Mare, Medieşu Aurit,19th century

Manuscripts:

• Ioan Doboşi, Istoria familiei Doboşi, ms. / The Doboşi family history.

Books:

• Câmpean, Viorel, Oameni şi locuri din Sătmar / People and places of Satmar, vol. II, Satu Mare, Editura Citadela, 2010, 316 p.
• Câmpean, Viorel, Vezendiu – 750 de ani de atestare documentară/ Vezendiu – 750 years of documentary, Satu Mare, Editura Citadela, 2012, 158 p.
• Ciubotă, Viorel, Lupta românilor sătmăreni pentru unire (1918-1919) / Satu Mare Romanians’ struggle for union (19181919), Satu Mare, 2004, 583 p.
• Dicţionarul literaturii române de la origini pînă la 1900 / Dictionary of Romanian Literature from its origins to 1900, Bucureşti, Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, 1979, 973 p.
• Doboşi, Alexandru, Datul oilor (quinquagesima ovium). Un capitol din istoria economică a românilor din Transilvania / Wagging sheep (quinquagesima ovium). A chapter in the economic history of the Romanians in Transylvania, în Academia Română. Studii şi Cercetări, XXVIII, Bucureşti, 1937.
• Doboşi, Alexandru, Memoriu de titluri şi lucrări Sept. 1936/ Memo titles and works, Sept. 1936, Cluj, 1936, 6 p.
• *** Enciclopedia istoriografiei româneşti / Romanian historiography Encyclopedia, Bucureşti, Editura ştiinţifică şi enciclopedică, 1978, 470 p.
• *** Lupta românilor din judeţul Satu Mare / Fight Romanians in Satu Mare County, Bucureşti, 1989, 575 p.
• Neamţu, Gelu; Vaida-Voevod, Mircea, 1 Decembrie 1918. Mărturii ale participanţilor. Ioachim Crăciun. Documente la un sfert de veac de la Marea Unire / 1 December 1918. Testimonies of participants.Ioachim Crăciun.Documents from a quarter century of the Great Union, vol. II, Bucureşti, Editura Academiei Române, 2008, 284 p.
• Puşcariu, Ioan cavaler de, Date istorice privitoare la familiile nobile române, vol. I, vol II, ediţia a IV-a, ClujNapoca, Editura Societăţii culturale Pro Maramureş „Dragoş Vodă”, 2003, 774 p.
• Retegan, Simion, Parohii, biserici şi preoţi greco-catolici din Transilvania la mijlocul secolului al XIX-lea (1849-1875). Mărturii documentare / Parishes, churches and Greek Catholic priests in Transylvania in the mid-nineteenth century (18491875).Testimonies documentary, Cluj-Napoca, 2006, 484 p.
• Vulturescu, George, Cultură şi literatură în ţinuturile Sătmarului. Dicţionar 1700-2000/ Culture and Literature in the provinces of Satmar.Dictionary 1700-2000, Satu Mare, Editura Muzeului Sătmărean, 2000, 279 p.
• Porumbăcean, Claudiu; Dulgău, Bujor, Oameni din Sătmar / People from Satmar, Satu Mare, 2000, 256 p.

Study, Magazin articles:

• Câmpean, Viorel, Alexandru Doboşi, un istoric român născut într-o vrednică familie din Sătmar/ Alexandru Doboşi, a romanian historian born in a family worthy from Satmar. În vol.: Istoricul Gelu Neamţu la 75 de ani, coordonatorul volumului Ioan Lăcătuşu, ediţie îngrijită de Vasile Lechinţan şi Vasile Şt. Tutula, Sfântu-Gheorghe, 2014, p. 524-536.
• Câmpean, Viorel, 110 ani de la naşterea istoricului Alexandru Doboşi /110 years of the birth of the historian Alexandru Doboşi. În vol.: Oameni şi locuri din Sătmar, Satu Mare, vol. II, 2010, p. 75-78.
• Câmpean, Viorel, Preoţii din familia Doboşi, vrednici slujitori ai credincioşilor sătmăreni / The priests of the family Doboşi, faithful servants worthy from Satu Mare. În vol.: Oameni şi locuri din Sătmar, vol. II, Satu Mare, 2010, p. 209-213.
• Cuvântul adevărului / Word of truth, Bixad, an XV, nr. 8, august 1937, p. 349.
• Gazeta ilustrată / Illustrated Newspaper, Cluj, an VIII, nr. 9-10, septembrie-octombrie 1939, p. 106.
• Ghitta, Ovidiu, Episcopul Grigore Maior şi biserica din Sărăuad / Bishop Grigore Maior and the churchfrom Sărăuad. În vol. Identitate şi alteritate. 5. Studii de istorie politică şi culturală, Cluj-Napoca, 2011, p. 49.
• Miloiu, Ioachim, Un caiet de cântări din 1866 / A notebook of songs from 1866. În: Banatul, Revistă culturală, socială, economică, Anul III, Timişoara, 1928, p. 30-41.
• Popa, Mircea, Din istoria cărţii româneşti: culegerile de cântece naţionale şi de petrecere / Pages from the History of Romanian Books – The Collections of National Folk and Earthly Songs. În: Libraria, Anuar II, Târgu Mureş, 2003, p. 218-230.
• Silasi, Gregoriu, Românul în poesia sa poporală / Romanian in his folk poetry. În: Transilvania, Anul X, Nr. 14, Braşov, 1877 p. 161.

Annuals:

• Schematismus Venerabilis Cleri Dioecesis Szamosujvárensis graeci ritus catholicorum pro anno a Christo nato 1882 Schematismus of the Venerable Clergy of the Greek Catholic Diocese of Szamosujvár [Gherla] for A.D. 1882, Gherla, Typis Typographiae dioecesane, 1882.
• Schematismus Venerabilis Cleri Dioecesis Szamosujváriensis graeci ritus catholicorum pro anno a Christo nato 1900,Gherla, 1900 / Schematismus of the Venerable Clergy of the Greek Catholic Diocese of Szamosujvár [Gherla] for A.D. 1900, Gherla, Typis Typographiae dioecesane, 1900.
• A Szatmári Kir.Kath. Főgymnasium 1877/1878 Évi Értesitője / Catholic High School Yearbook from Satu Mare years1877/1878, Budapest, Nyomatott a „Hunyadi Mátyás” Intézetben, 1878.
• A Szatmári Kir.Kath. Főgymnasium 1878/1879 Évi Értesitője / Catholic High School Yearbook from Satu Mare years 1878/1879, Budapest, Nyomatott a „Hunyadi Mátyás” Intézetben, 1879.
• A Szatmári Kir.Kath. Főgymnasium 1879/1880 Évi Értesitője / Catholic High School Yearbook from Satu Mare years 1879/1880, Szatmár, Nyomatott a „Szabadsajtó” Nyomda Gyorssajtóján, 1880.
• A Szatmári Kir.Kath. Főgymnasium 1880/1881 Évi Értesitője / Catholic High School Yearbook from Satu Mare years 1880/1881, Szatmár, Nyomatott a „Szabadsajtó” Nyomda Gyorssajtóján, 1881.

Electronic sources:

• Pop, Ioan-Aurel, Istorici clujeni şi transilvăneni la Accademia di Romania din Roma în perioada interbelică, în Clujul pentru toţi, articol disponibil la adresa http://beta.cluj4all.com/file-dinistoria-clujului-si-transilvaniei/istorici-clujeni-si-transilvaneni-laaccademia-di-romania-din-roma-in-perioada-interbelica/, accesat în septembrie 2016.

From the history of balneology: Ferentz Nyulas about medical waters from Transylvania (1800)

Used since ancient times to treat various diseases, medical waters from Romania have been studied since the XVIIIth century by doctors, pharmacists and chemists among them standing out Ferentz Nyulas, Hungarian doctor and chemist. For 10 years he investigated the medical waters from Transylvania, also relying on his predecessors’ research and he wrote an important paper in Hungarian language, published in Cluj in 1800. Divided into three volumes, the work presents some physical and chemical analyzes, focused on Rodna’s springs, but also on diseases that could be treated with each type of water depending on the components. The paper became a medical guide because the author gives some advices on how to use the waters, the perfect period when people could use them, the right cure for every disease and the importance of having a balanced diet.

Keywords: medical waters, Ferentz Nyulas, chemical analizes, Rodna, medical guide.

Berlescu, Elena. Enciclopedia de balneoclimatologie a României/ The encyclopedia of Romanian balneology, Ediţia a II-a, Bucureşti, Editura All, 1996.

Chindriş, Ioan, Iacob, Niculina, Mârza, Eva, Tatay, Anca Elisabeta, Urs, Otilia, Crăciun, Bogdan, Moldovan, Roxana, Roman-Negoi, Ana Maria. Cartea românească veche în Imperiul Habsburgic (1691-1830). Recuperarea unei identităţi culturale/ Old Romanian Book in the Habsburg Empire (16911830). Recovery of a cultural identity, Cluj-Napoca, Editura Mega, 2016.

Mârza, Eva, Mârza, Iacob. Elemente de balneologie la polihistorul Vasilie Popp (1789-1842)/ Balneology elements at polihistor Vasilie Popp (1789-1842), în Saşii şi concetăţenii lor ardeleni. Studia in honorem Dr. Thomas Nägler/ Saxons and their Transylvanian fellow citizens. Study in honour of Dr. Thomas Nagler, Alba Iulia, Editura Altip, 2009.

Nyulas, Ferentz. Az erdélyországi orvosvizeknek bontásáról közönségesen, Kolozsvár, Nyomtt. Hochmeister Márton által, a’Kiado költségével, 1800.

Nyulas, Ferentz. Ajánló levél, Elöljáró beszéd és a vizeknek bontásáról közönségesen, Kolozsvár, Nyomtt. Hochmeister Márton által, a’Kiado költségével, 1800.

Nyulas, Ferentz. A Radna vidéki vasas borvizeknek bontásáró, Nyomtt. Hochmeister Márton által, a’Kiado költségével, 1800.

Nyulas, Ferentz. Ugyanazon vizeknek orvosi erejéről, hasznairól és vélek élés módjáról, Nyomtt. Hochmeister Márton által, a’Kiado költségével, 1800.

Nyulas, Ferentz. Az erdélyországi orvosvizeknek bontásáról közönségesen, Kolozsvár, Nyomtt. Hochmeister Márton által, a’Kiado költségével, 1800, disponibil la adresa web http://clasate.cimec.ro/detaliu.asp?tit=Carte-veche–NyulasFerenc-autor–A-Radna-vid%C3%A9ki-vasas-borvizeknekorvosi-erej%C3%A9r%C3%B6l-hasznair%C3%B3l%C3%A9s-v%C3%A9lek-%C3%A9l%C3%A9snek-m%C 3%B3dj%C3%A1r%C3%B3l&k=93670BB70FC54205B EA3180E16E4FF52.

Popp, Vasilie. Apele minerale de la Arpătac, Bodoc şi Covasna/ Mineral waters from Arpătac, Bodoc and Covasna, Sibiu, 1821.

Saabner-Tuduri, Alexandru. Apele minerale şi staţiunile climatice din România/ The mineral waters and climate resorts from Romania, Bucureşti, Tipografia „Gutenberg” Joseph Göbl, 1906.

Szinnyei, József. Magyar Írók élete és munkái, disponibil la adresa web http://mek.oszk.hu/03600/03630/html/ index.htm.

Ore minerals of the Nitra County acording to Notitia Hungariae historico-geographica by Matthias Bel

Matthias Bel in his work Notitia Hungariae Novae historico-geographica offered a contemporary view of the status, importance, response and concrete realities of counties of Hungary within the Habsburg monarchy. The study is historical and geographical research history and environmental issues of ore materials, and their extraction in the Nitra County in the first half of the 18th century. Description of the subject contains text “Ore storage yards” in § XII. science section (Membrum primum physicum) of general parts of Notitia of Nitra County in Hungary (1742). The “probe” into Bel’s characteristics of this theme we have realized through critical commentary on contemporary texts supplemented by other sources, respectively relevant literature and information obtained by studying geological maps. Specific findings, we finally compared with the results of field research and their own knowledge of the subject. The facts which led M. Bel in a particular article, of course, do not always correspond with the present state of knowledge issues. However, they reflect the contemporary understanding of the ore minerals in the studied area and also bear witness to the creativity and method of this scholar.

Keywords: Matthias Bel, Notitia, Nitra County, ore minerals

Bel, Matthiae. COMITATUS NITRIENSIS, PARS GENERALIS, MEMBRUM PRIUS PHYSICUM, de situ, natura, opportunitatibus Comitatus Nitriensis, § XII, p. 305-306. Article avilable at the web address: http:// oldbooks.savba.sk/digi/Lyc_B_VIII_33_IV/LKB_ LYC_B_VIII_FOL_2ZZI/SK/1_1_LYC_B_VIII_ FOL_2ZZIN00305-306P.htm (9.9.2016).

Beljak, Ján. Borová hora [The Borová hill]. Article avilable at the web address: http://www.pustyhrad.com/okolie_ borovahora.php (10.7.2016).

Fojtík, Juraj. Začiatky baníckeho dolovania na Považskom Inovci, 1765 – 1775 [The origins of the mining in Považský Inovec Mts., 1765 – 1775]. In: Zborník Slovenského banského múzea XI, 1983, p. 117-128.

Geyer. Plan der Ober-Hungrischen Bergstadt Rudna [Without scale]. [S.l., s.n.], 1751. Article avilable at the web address: http://imageserver.mzk.cz/ mzk03/001/052/487/2619316556 (19.8.2016).

Holec, Gejza. Správa o literárno-historickom výskume rudného baníctva na Hornom Ponitrí [The report about literaturehistorical research of the Horná Nitra region ore mining]. Prievidza, Banský výskumný ústav, 1968 (Geofond, No 67236).

Chrastina, Peter, Rácová, Katarína, Brůna, Vladimír. Bridges over the Váh River in the territory of the Nitra County in the first half of 18th century (acording to Notitia hungaraiae historico-geographica by Matthias Bel). In: Revista Transilvania, 9/6-7, 2015, p. 79-86.

Juríková, Erika. Pôsobenie Rehole kazateľov a panien svätého Dominika v Trnave podľa Notície Mateja Bela v konfrontácií s historickou skutočnosťou [Action virgins and the Order of Preachers of St. Dominic in Trnava by Matthias Bel Noticias in the face of historical fact]. In: Sambucus. Práce z klasickej filológie, latinskej medievalistiky a neolatinistiky. Trnava, FF TU, 2005, p. 101-130.

Kamenický, Miroslav. Olovo v hutníctve drahých kovov na strednom Slovensku v 18. storočí [The lead of the noble metal metallurgy in Central Slovakia region in 18th century]. In: Acta Historica Posoniensia I. Štúdie z dejín baníctva a banského podnikania. Bratislava, FF UK, p. 64-68.

Idem. Stredoslovenské striebro a jeho hutnícke spracovanie do konca 18. storočia [The Central Slovak silver and it´s metallurgy processing to end of 18th century]. Bratislava, VEDA, 1995.

Kukučka, Pavol. Minerály a horniny Západných Karpát, 10 Strážovské vrchy, Rudná oblasť Čavoj – Chvojnica [The minerals and rocks of the Western Carpathians, 10 Strážovské vrchy Mts., Ore mining district Čavoj – Chvojnica]. Article avilable at the web address: http://www.nadler.estranky.cz/fotoalbum /10-strazovske-vrchy/rudna-oblast-cavoj—chvojnica/ (16.8.2016).

Lenovský, Ladislav. Contexts of identity. In: Ethnologia Actualis Slovaca, 6, 2006, p. 12-24.

Lukačka, Ján. Baníctvo v oblasti stredného a severného Ponitria [The mining in Central and Nothern Nitra Region]. In: Banské mestá na Slovensku. Martin, Osveta, 1990, p. 193195.

Maheľ, Michal. Geologická mapa Strážovských vrchov 1 : 50 000 [The geological map of the Strážovské vrchy Mts. 1 : 50 000]. Bratislava, GÚDŠ, 1981.

Mikoláš, Stanislav et al. Záverečná správa z úlohy ČAVOJ – GÁPEL, Ag – Pb – Zn rudy, vyhľadávací prieskum [The final report of the task ČAVOJ – GÁPEL, Ag – Pb – Zn ore, exploration search]. Spišská Nová Ves; Žilina : Slovenská geológia; PROGEO, 1995 (Geofond, No 82971).

Severini, Joannis. Conspectus historiae Hungaricae in usus praesertim juventutis adornatae. Pars prior. Posonium, Patzko, 1775.

Rácová, Katarína, Chrastina, Peter. Myjava and Chvojnica in the Notitia of the Nitra County (historical geographical analysis and interpretation). In: Revista Transilvania, 8/5-6, 2014, p. 41-50.

Slovak Mining Archive in Banská Štiavnica, Archival collection of the Banská Bystrica Mining association, No 551 – Správa o olovenej rude [The report about lead ore], Informácia o čavojskom revíri [The information about Čavoj mine district], 28.10.1737.

Slovak Mining Archive in Banská Štiavnica, Archival collection of the Banská Bystrica Mining association, No 551 – Správa o olovenej rude [The report about lead ore], Správa o stave prevádzok v Čavoji [The report on the status of operations in Čavoj], 15.11.1737.

Slovak Mining Archive in Banská Štiavnica, Archival collection of the Banská Bystrica Mining association, No 566 – Správa o hute v Čavoji [The report about metallurgical plant in Čavoj], Správa o dodávke olovenej rudy do Kremnice [The report about delivery round lead ore to Kremnica], 24.4.1759.

Slovak Mining Archive in Banská Štiavnica, Archival Collection of the Banská Štiavnica Central Mining Association Office, No 09865 – The mining map from 18th Century, Grund und Saiger Ries über die Sawoyer völlige TagRiever, samt daselbst allen befindlichen Bley-Werkern und Schurf Pingen [without scale]. [S.l., s.n.], ca. 1769.

Slovak Mining Archive in Banská Štiavnica, Archival Collection of the Banská Štiavnica Central Mining Association Office, No 09866 – The mining map from 18th century, Explication/Uber dießse Grund- und Profill-Riß deren in Csavojer Bley Gebürg befiendlichen alt und neuen Gruben alß [without scale]. [S.l., s.n.], 11.10.1769.

Staré banské diela a banské diela [Old mining works and mining works]. Article avilable at the web address: http:// mapserver.geology.sk/ sbd/ (23.8.2016).

Števko, Martin, Gramblička, Roman, Malíková, Radana. Nové údaje o supergénnych mineráloch z polymetalického ložiska Čavoj, Strážovské vrchy, Slovenská republika [The new data on supergene minerals from the Čavoj base metal deposit, Strážovské vrchy Mts. (Slovak republic)]. In: Bulletin mineralogicko-petrologického oddělení Národního muzea v Praze 2015, 23/1, 2015, p. 63-74.

Tibenský, Ján. O práci, koncepcii, štruktúre a osudoch Belovych Notícií [About the work, concept, structure and fate by Bel Noticias]. In: Tibenský, Ján (ed.), Matej Bel: doba, život, dielo. Bratislava, Veda, 1984.

Wenczel, Gusztáv. Magyarország bányászatának kritikai története [The critical history of the Hungary mining]. Budapest, A M. Tud. Akadémia Könyvkiadó-hivatala, 1880

Zámora, Peter. Dejiny baníctva na Slovensku, 1. diel, Využívanie nerastných surovín, ťažba rúd, vybraných nerudných surovín a výroba kovov na území Slovenska od počiatkov do roku 1945 [The Slovakia mining history, 1st part, Exploitation of mineral resources, mining ore, selected non-metallic materials and metal production in Slovakia from the beginnings to 1945]. Košice, Ing. Tibor Turčan – Banská Agentúra, Zväz hutníctva, ťažobného priemyslu a geológie SR, 2003.

Žudel, Juraj. Stolice na Slovensku [County in the Slovakia]. Bratislava, Obzor, 1984.

The circulation of old books from the Blaj Printing House. a regional journey: copies and edited and inedited notes from the Alba County

The first part of the present study contains detailed bibliographic references concerning the debut and the temporal progress of the research conducted on old printings of Blaj, Alba county, as part of the more general research regarding the presence of old Romanian books (emitted by other old typographic centers such as: Târgovişte, Bucureşti, Bălgrad – Alba Iulia, Braşov, Sebeş, Iaşi, Buzău, Râmnic, Buda, Neamţ etc.) in the same region.

The present historiographic journey is extremely useful in the relevation of the present state of the research on the old books of Blaj as it is the basis of several interpretations concerning the circulation of certain copies, their vintage price, the means of acquisition and distribution etc. The third part of the present study and also the most consistent one is comprised of a necessary and very useful documentary Annex which reunites different notes from the old books of Blaj under study annoted with comentaries that encompass 37 old Blaj editions, in 104 actual copies.

Keywords: the history of printing, old Romanian books, the Printing House of Blaj, book circulation, book edition, book copy, book notes, XVIIIth century, XIXth century

• Botezan, Ioana. Activitatea tipografică a lui Timotei Cipariu între anii 1835-1865/ The Typographic Activity of Timotei Cipariu between 1835 and 1865, în Acta Musei Napocensis, XVI, 1979, p. 669-689.
• Drăghiţă, Zevedei. Timotei Cipariu (1805-1887) – Bibliofilul/ Timotei Cipariu (1805-1887) – The Bibliophile, în Terra Sebus, 2, 2010, p. 389-398.
• Dreghiciu, Doina. Cartea românească veche de pe Valea Sebeşului (Catalog)/ Old Romanian Books from the Sebeş Valley (Catalogue), I, în Apulum, XIX, 1981, p. 487-498; în Apulum, XX, 1982, p. 491-505 (II).
• Dreghiciu, Doina. Timotei Cipariu, donator de carte românească veche/ Timotei Cipariu/ Donor of Old Romanian Books, în Apulum, XXVI, 1989, p. 499-505.
• Dreghiciu, Doina. Însemnări de pe tipărituri româneşti vechi în colecţii de carte ale Judeţului Alba, referitoare la cărturari ai Blajului (1770-1872)/ Adnotations from Old Romanian Printings in Book Collection from the Alba County, referring to Scholars from Blaj, în Apulum, XXXIII, 1996, p. 57-63.
• Fleşer, Gheorghe – Rustoiu, Ioana – Dumitran, Ana. Biserici româneşti de zid din Judeţul Alba (I). Protopopiatul Ortodox Sebeş/ Romanian Stone Churches from the Alba County (I). The Orthodox Archbishopric of Sebeş, Alba Iulia, Editura Altip, 2005.
• Haţegan, Lucia – Lupan, Doina. Cartea românească veche în biblioteca Muzeului Unirii din Alba Iulia/ Old Romanian Books from the Library of the Museum of the Union from Alba Iulia (V), în Apulum, XVII, 1979, p. 385-440.
• Josan, Nicolae – Fleşer, Gheorghe – Dumitran, Ana. Oameni şi fapte din trecutul Judeţului Alba în memoria urmaşilor/ People from the Alba County and Their Deeds as Remembered by Their Descendants, Alba Iulia, 1996.
• Mârza, Eva – Dreghiciu, Doina. Catalogul tipăriturilor româneşti blăjene din Judeţul Alba. I. Lucrare de atestat 19811985/ The Catalogue of Old Romanian Printings from the Alba County. I. Certification papier 1981-1985, 1985, ms.
• Mârza, Eva – Dreghiciu, Doina. Cartea românească veche în Judeţul Alba. Sec. XVI-XVII. Catalog/ Old Romanian Books in the Alba County. Sec. XVI-XVII. Catalogue, Alba Iulia, Editura Episcopiei Ortodoxe Române a Alba Iuliei, 1989.
• Mârza, Eva – Dreghiciu, Doina – Mircea, Gabriela. Pietre pentru zidirea românităţii moderne. Vechile tipărituri blăjene de la Muzeul Naţional al Unirii din Alba Iulia (1747-1830). La 260 de ani de la debutul activităţii imprimeriei din Blaj. Rememorare şi expoziţie temporară de carte. Catalog/ Stones for Building Modern Romanity. Old Printings From Blaj Located at the National Union Museum From Alba Iulia (1747-1830). 260 after the Debut of the Printing House of Blaj. Rememoration and Temporary Book Exhibit, Alba Iulia (de fapt Braşov), Editura Haco Internaţional, 2007.
• Mârza, Eva – Rus, Anton. Bibliografia cărţilor blăjene de la începuturile tipografiei până la anul 1948/ The Bibiliography of the Books From Blaj From the Debut of the Printing House Until 1948, Blaj, Editura Buna Vestire, 2004.
• Mârza, Iacob. „Memoriale Jacobi Aaron” (deceniul 7 al secolului al XVIII-lea): semnificaţii culturale şi politice/ „Memoriale Jacobi Aaron” (7th Decade of the XVIIIth Century): Cultural and Political Semnifications, în Cercetarea şi perspectivele digitalizării.. Eds. Ana Maria Negoi, Eva Mârza/ Research and the Perspectives of Digitization. Eds. Ana Maria Negoi, Eva Mârza, Cluj-Napoca, Editura Argonaut, 2009, p. 240252.
• Mârza, Iacob. Cultură şi naţiune la românii ardeleni în secolul al XVIII-lea: Ioan Iacob Aaron (? – 1788)/ Cultural and National Spirit at Romanians in Transylvania in the XVIIIth Century: Ioan Iacob Aaron (? – 1788), în 240 de ani de la moartea marelui arhiereu şi luptător naţional Ioan Inochentie Micu-Klein. 1768-208. Coord. Ioan Chindriş şi Ciprian Ghişa/ 240 Years From the Death of the Great Bishop and National Fighter Ioan Inochentie Micu-Klein. 1768-2008. Oradea, Editura Episcop Vasile Aftenie, 2009, p. 114132.
• Mircea, Gabriela. Vechi tipărituri blăjene la bicentenarul Bibliei din 1795. Catalogul expoziţiei temporare din noiembrie 1995. Sala Unirii/ Old Printings From Blaj at the Bible Bicentennial from 1795. The Catalogue of the Temporary Exhibit From November 1995. Union Hall. Alba Iulia, 1995.
• Mircea, Gabriela. Lucrători tipografi în medalion: Ştefan Huzsi (sau Hoszu), meşter al vechii oficine din Blaj (m. 1817)/ Medalion of a Printing House Worker: Ştefan Huzsi (or Hoszu), Master of the Old Blaj Officine (d. 1817), în Revista română de istorie a cărţii, III-IV, 2006/2007, nr. 3/4, p. 115-121.
• Mircea, Gabriela. Cărţi vechi de Blaj din Judeţul Alba şi de la sudul Dunării. Excurs bibliografic/ Old Books of Blaj in the Alba County and From the South of the Danube River. Bibliographical Excursus, 2016, ms.
• Mircea, Gabriela – Dreghiciu, Doina. Cărţi vechi şi moderne de la Mănăstirea Râmeţ: provenienţă, însemnări circulaţie/ Old and Modern Books From the Râmeţ Monastery: Origins, Adnotations, Circulation, în Patrimonium apulense, IX, 2009, p. 303-320.
• Răduţiu, Aurel. Negustori şi meşteşugari din Blaj în Urbariul din 1772/ Tradesmen and Artisans From Blaj in the 1772 Urbarium, în Revista arhivelor, IX, nr. 1, 1966, p. 295306.
• Rustoiu, Ioana Gabriela. Inventare de bunuri ale parohiilor protopopiatului ortodox Sebeş (1854-1872)/ Inventory of Goods From the Parishes of the Sebeş Orthodox Decanary (1854-1872), în Patrimonium apulense, IV, 2004, p. 271-309.

Bishop Ignatius Batthyány and the History of the Romanian Church in Transylvania in the 18th and 19th Century Documents

The present study attempts to highlight the inter-ecclesiastical relations in the 18th century Transylvania, and to recover two new documentary collections issued in the 18th and 19th centuries, currently stored in the Batthyaneum Library and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese Archives of Alba Iulia.

Ignatius Batthyány (1780-1798) is a Roman Catholic Bishop whose interest in the history and culture of the Romanian Church is generally known. The novelty of the present approach brings up the intellectual bishop’s effort to collect and systematize previous and contemporary documents of his age about the Romanians’ ecclesiastical history.

Unknown documents support the author of the study to retrace the institutional and personal relations between the Roman Catholic bishop of Alba Iulia Ignatiu Batthyány and two united Greek Catholic bishops of Blaj: Grigorie Maior (1773-1782) and Ioan Bob (1782-1830).

Key words: religious Reform, Counter-Reformation, Catholic Reformation, confessional identity, Union, culture, elite

Biro Hendre, Doina, „Ignace Batthyany. Un destin consacré a l’eglise”, în vol. Batthyaneum Omagiu fondatorului Ignatius Sallestius de Batthyan (1741-1798), editor Doina Biro Hendre, Bucureşti, 2011, p. 2538.

Brusanowski, Paul, „Titulatura şi poziţia canonică a ierarhilor români din Alba Iulia”, în J. Marte, V. Ioniţă, I. Mârza, L. Stanciu, E. Chr. Suttner (ed.), Unirea românilor transilvăneni cu Biserica Romei. Vol. I. De la începuturi până în anul 1701, Bucureşti, 2010, p. 120139.

Dörner, Anton, Reformismul austriac şi administraţia din Transilvania în secolul al XVIII-lea, Cluj-Napoca, Editura Star, 2009.

Dumitran, Ana, „Titlul de vlădică şi semnificaţiile sale în lumea românească medieval”, în Mediaevalia Transilvanica, tom I/1997, nr. 1-2, p. 63-68.

Dumitran, Ana, „Vlădicia Bălgradului – episcopie sau mitropolie?”, în vol. Biserica Română Unită cu Roma Greco-Catolică – istorie şi spiritualitate. 150 de ani de la înfiinţarea Mitropoliei Române Unite cu Roma la Blaj, Blaj, 2003, p. 247-253.

Gyémánt, Ladislau, Mişcarea naţională a românilor din Transilvania între anii 1790 şi 1848, Bucureşti. Editura Ştiinţifică şi Enciclopedică, 1986.

Lumperdean, Ioan, „Naţiune şi confesiune în secolul al XVIII-lea: opţiuni şi preocupări pentru reunificarea ecleziastică a românilor ardeleni”, în Nicolae Bocşan, Ioan Lumperdean, Ioan Aurel Pop, Ethnie et confession en Transylvanie (du XIII au XIX siècles), Cluj Napoca, Centrul de Studii Transilvane Fundaţia Culturală Română, 1996.

Lupaş, Ioan, „O încercare de reunire a Bisericilor române din Transilvania la 1793”, în Studii, conferinţe şi comunicări istorice, vol. I, Bucureşti, 1927, p. 389-390.

Lupşa, Ştefan, „Contribuţiuni la istoria încercării de reunire a bisericilor româneşti din Transilvania la 1798”, în vol. Omagiu lui Ioan Lupaş la împlinirea vârstei de 60 de ani. August 1940, Bucureşti 1943, p. 428-450.

Mârza, Andreea, „Figura bibliotecarului Transilvan în epoca Luminilor. Studiu de caz: Imre Dániel”, în vol. Laura Stanciu (ed.), Petru Maior şi prietenii, ed. Laura Stanciu, Cluj-Napoca, Editura Mega, 2015, p.161-170.

Mircea, Gabriela, „New considerations on the Catalogue of Old Romanian Books collected at the Batthyaneum Library in Alba Iulia”, în vol. Batthyaneum: omagiu fondatorului Ignatius Sallestius de Batthyan (17411798), p. 43-72.

Stanciu, Laura, Între Răsărit şi Apus. Secvenţe din istoria Bisericii românilor ardeleni (prima jumătate a sec. al 18-lea), Cluj-Napoca, Argonaut, 2008.

Suttner, Ernst Christoph, Efectele supravegherii calvine asupra vieţii religioase a românilor din Principat şi avantajele sociale legate de deschiderea faţă de calvinism, în Johann Marte, Viorel Ioniţă, Iacob Mârza, Laura Stanciu şi Ernst Christoph Suttner (ed.), Die Union der Rumänen Siebenbürgens mit der Kirche von Rom /Unirea românilor transilvăneni cu Biserica Romei, Vol. I. Bucureşti, Editura Enciclopedică, 2010, p. 34-49.

Book catalogues from the holdings of Batthyaneum Library from Alba Iulia

This research is confined to spatial and temporal limits as the actual holdings of Batthyaneum Library comprise more book catalogues from throughout Europe. We will only refer to Italian Peninsula and the time span 1783-1785, period in which Imre Dániel, librarian of bishop Ignác Batthyány, was there serving the scientific needs of the bishop.

The Annexe from the final part of the research includes catalogues that were brought by Dániel from Italy and about which we find information either in the correspondence with the bishop, or the journal/Diarium which Dániel was obliged to write at the request of the high priest. Catalogues were printed in libraries or printing houses from Florence, Naples, Padova, Parma, Rome and Venice, localities that Dániel visited throughout his staying in Italy. They not only comprise papers in Latin, but also Italian, French, German, Spanish, English or even Dutch, also addressing the Anglo-Saxon area.

Advertising means, these catalogues managed to hold an essential role in spreading handwritten and printed book and thus, allowed purchasing of works offered within them by institutions and personalities of the moment. It is also the case of bishop Ignác Batthyány who enriched this way the library that nowadays bears his name.

Key words: book catalogues, Batthyaneum library, bishop Ignác Batthyány, Imre Dániel, librarian, library, printing houses

Bergamo, Stefania, Callegari, Marco. Libri in vendita. Cataloghi librari nelle biblioteche padovane (1647-1850), Milano, 2009.

Bibliographie universelle ancienne et moderne […], t. troisième, Paris, Chez Michaud Frères, 1811.

Biblioteca Batthyaneum LXX/ 72, 101

Callegari, Marco. Un prodotto tipografico a larga circolazione: i cataloghi di vendita libraria. În La fabbrica del libro. Bolletino di storia dell’editoria in Italia, anno XV, 1/2009, p. 2-8.

Dániel, Imre. Diarium itineris Italici, 2 t., 1784-1786 (ms).

Idem. Varia manuscripta et documenta historica per copia per Emericum Dániel in Italia collecta, t. I-II, 1784-1786.

Idem. Varia manuscripta literaria, documenta historica, epistolae, in copia per Emericum Daniel in Italia collecta (latine, italice et armenice), 1784-1786.

Idem. Collectio documentorum historiam Hungariae tangentium per Emericum Dániel Florentiae descriptorum, 17841786.

Donato, Maria Pia. Cultura dell’antico e cultura dei Lumi a Roma nel Settecento: la politicizzazione dello scambio culturale durante il pontificato di Pio VI. În Mélanges de l’École française de Rome. Italie et Méditerranée, t. 104, n.2, 1992, p. 503-548.

Greco, Luigi. Un libraire italien à Paris à la veille de la Révolution. În Mélanges de l’Ecole française de Rome. Italie et Méditerranée, t.102, n.2, 1990, p. 261-280.

Mârza, Andreea. Achiziţii de cărţi în spaţiul centraleuropean. Cazul Ignác Batthyány / Book Acquisitions in the Central-European Area. The Case of Ignác Batthyány. În Transilvania, 5-6/2014, p. 77-82.

Mârza, Andreea. Dániel Imre, a Batthyaneum első könyvtárosának személyisége és kapcsolata Batthyány Ignác püspökkel – perioada 1 octombrie 2014 – 31 martie 2015 (grant finanţat de Academia Maghiară de Ştiinţe prin Domus Hungarica nr. 81/6864/HTMT).

Mârza, Andreea. Figura bibliotecarului transilvan în Epoca Luminilor. Studiu de caz: Imre Dániel / A Transylvanian Librarian during the Enlightenment. A case study: Imre Dániel. În Petru Maior şi prietenii. Laura Stanciu (ed.), Cluj-Napoca, ed. Mega, 2015, p. 161-169.

Mârza, Andreea. Bibliotheca Kollariana – možný akvizičný prameň pre sedmohradského biskupa Ignáca Batthyányho / The Kollár Library – a possible purchase source for Transylvania’s Bishop Ignác Batthyány, în Kniha. Zborník o problémoch a dejinách knižnej kultúry, 2016, p. 142-153.

Monok, István. De la valeur documentaire des catalogues et des registres de livre – leur usage dans l’histoire de la reception, în Transilvania, 4-5/2016, p. 172-176.

Rao, Anna Maria. La stampe francese a Napoli negli anni della Revoluzione. În Mélanges de l’Ecole française de Rome. Italie et Méditerranée, 1990, t.102, n. 2, p. 469-520.

Tarzia, Fabio. Libri e rivoluzioni. Figure e mentalità nella Roma fine ancient régime (1770-1800), Milano, 2000.

Varry, Dominique. Les ventes publiques de livres à Lyon aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles et leurs catalogues. În Les ventes de livres et leurs catalogues (XVIIe-XXe siècle), éd. Annie Charon et Élisabeth Parinet, collab. Dominique Bougé-Grandon, Paris, 2000, p. 29-48.

Waquet, Françoise. La Lumière… vient de France. Le livre français en Italie à la veille de la Révolution. În Mélanges de l’Ecole française de Rome. Italie et Méditerranée, 1990, t. 102, n. 2, p. 233-259.

http://opac.sbn.it/opacsbn/opaclib?db=solr_ iccu&resultForward=opac/iccu/brief.jsp&from=1&nentries= 10&searchForm=opac/iccu/error.jsp&do_cmd=search_show_ cmd&item:5032:Nomi::@frase@=IT%5CICCU%5CNAP V%5C079097 (accesat la 9 sept. 2016).

http://www.idref.fr/143246755 (accesat la 12 sept. 2016).

http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/l-ultima-fase-dellaserenissima-cultura-e-civilta-la-stampa-la-circolazione-dellibro_%28Storia-di-Venezia%29/ (accesat la 13 sept. 2016).

http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giuseppe-molini_ (Dizionario-Biografico)/ (accesat la 9 sept. 2016).

http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/tommasobaglioni_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/ (accesat la 13 sept. 2016).

http://www.romasegreta.it/parione/piazza-di-pasquino.html (accesat la 29 sept. 2016).

Editions of the works of René Descartes in the collections of the Romanian Academy Library, Cluj-Napoca branch

The works of the French philosopher and scholar René Descartes (1596 – 1650), the one who revolutionized the sciences in his stime, have a well deserved place in the collections of the Romanian Academy Library, Cluj-Napoca branch. The numerous bibliophile editions printed in the XVIIth century by famous printers, such as the Elsevier family members especially caught our attention. Among the possessors of these editions are also some of the famous Transylvanian intellectuals, such as Timotei Cipariu, Ioan Vancea, Gheorghe Şincai, Mihail Halici, K. Vásárhelyi Péter, Szatmárnémeti Sámuel and Pataki Sámuel.

Keywords: René Descartes, French philosopher, bibliophile editions, library, Transylvania.

Adam, Antoine; Lerminier, Georges; Morot-Sir, Edouard, Littérature française. Des origines à la fin du XVIIIe siècle (French Literature. From the Origins to the End of XVIIIth Century), vol. I, Paris, Larousse, 1967.

Bernal, J. D., Ştiinţa în istoria societăţii (Science in the History of Society), Bucureşti, Editura Politică, 1964.

Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne, ou, … (Universal Biography, old and modern, …), Vol. XI, A Paris, Chez L. G. Michaud, 1814.

Candrea, I.-Aurel; Adamescu, Gheorghe, Dicţionar enciclopedic ilustrat al limbii române din trecut şi de astăzi (Illustrated Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Romanian Language, from past and present), Bucureşti, Editura Cartea Românească, 1931.

Ciorănescu, Alexandre, Bibliographie de la littérature française du dix-septième siècle (Bibliography of the French Literature of the Seventeenth Century), vol. II, Paris, Editions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1966.

Damian, Elena, René Descartes în colecţiile Bibliotecii Academice Clujene (René Descartes in the Collections of the Romanian Academy Library of Cluj), în Biblioteca şi cercetarea, vol. XXI, Cluj-Napoca, 1988.

Descartes şi spiritul modern. René Descartes. Discurs asupra metodei de a ne conduce bine raţiunea şi de a căuta adevărul în ştiinţe (Descartes and Modern Scientific Thought. René Descartes. Discourse on the Method of Properly Guiding the Reason in the Search for Truth in the Sciences), traducere de Daniela Rovenţa-Frumuşani şi Alexandru Boboc, note, comentarii, bibliografie de Alexandru Boboc, Bucureşti, Editura Academiei Române, 1990.

Flocon, Albert, Universul cărţilor. Studiu istoric de la origini până la sfârşitul secolului al XVIII-lea ( The Universe of Books…) Bucureşti, Editura Ştiinţifică şi Enciclopedică, 1976.

Istoria generală a ştiinţei (General History of Science), vol. II, Ştiinţa modernă. De la 1450 la 1800 (Modern Science. From 1450 until 1800), publicată sub conducerea lui René Taton, Bucureşti, Editura Ştiinţifică, 1971.

Jako, Zsigmond, Philobiblon transilvan. Studii (Transylvanian Philobiblon, Studies), Bucureşti, Editura Kriterion, 1977.

La Grande Encyclopédie. Inventaire raisonné des sciences, des lettres et des arts (The Great Encyclopedia…), par une société de savants et de gens de lettres, sous la direction de M. Berthelot, vol. I – XXXI, Paris, H. Lamirault et c-ie, Editeurs, 1885 – 1902, vol. XIV.

Lanson, Gustave, Histoire de la littérature française,… (History of French Literature), Paris, Librairie Hachette, 1951.

Larousse, Pierre, Grand Dictionnaire Universel du XIXe siècle français, historique, géographique, …,(The Universal Great Dictionary of XIXth French Century, …), vol. I – XV, + III vol. Suppléments, Paris, Administration du Grand Dictionnaire Universel, 1865 – 1890, vol. VI, Paris, 1876.

Littérature française (French Literature), vol. I. Publiée sous la direction de Joseph Bédier, Paul Hazard. Nouvelle édition refondue et augmentée sous la direction de Pierre Martino, Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1948.

Mic Dicţionar Enciclopedic (Short Encyclopedic Dictionary), Bucureşti, Editura Ştinţifică şi Enciclopedică, 1986.

Monok, István; Nemeth, Noémi; Tonk, Sándor, Erdélyi Könyvesházak. II Kolozsvár, in Erdélyi Könyvesházak. II Kolozsvár, Marosvásárhely, Nagyenyed, Szászváros, Székelyudvarhely (Transylvanian Libraries, II, Cluj, …), Szeged, Scriptum KFT, 1991.

Noica, Constantin, Viaţa şi filozofia lui René Descartes. René Descartes. Două tratate filozofice. Reguli de îndrumare a minţii. Meditaţii despre filozofia primă (Life and Philosophy of René Descartes. René Descartes. Two Philosophical Treaties. Rules of Guiding the Mind. Meditations on The First Philosophy), traduse de Constantin Noica, Bucureşti, Editura Humanitas, 1992.

Nouveau Petit Larousse (The New Little Larousse), Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1968.

Puiu, Sidonia; Daisa, Dora, Biblioteca lui Timotei Cipariu. Catalog (Timotei Cipariu´s Library. Catalogue), vol. I – V, Cluj-Napoca, Biblioteca Filialei Cluj-Napoca a Academiei Române, 1990, vol. II.

Saulnier, V.-L., Literatura franceză (French Literature), vol. I, Bucureşti, Editura Albatros, 1973.

Sipos Gábor, A Kolozsvári Református Kollégium Konyvtára. A XVII. Századbán (The Library of the Reformed College of Cluj in the XVIIth century), Szeged, Scriptum KFT., 1991.

Török, István, A Koloszvári ev. Ref. collegium Története (The Histoy of the Evangelic Reformed College of Cluj), vol. I – III, Cluj, 1905, vol. III.

Ursuţiu, Maria, Din nou despre Biblioteca Halici (1674) – Addenda et corrigenda (Again about Halici Library (1674) – Addenda et corrigenda), în Biblioteca şi cercetarea, vol. XII, Cluj-Napoca, 1988.
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Owners of Spanish old books in Batthyaneum Library (17thto 19th century)

The study aims to retrace the circulation of Spanish old books from Batthyaneum Library through the identification of their owner, institutions or private persons from the clerical or laic environment.

We present and describe the coats of arms from the interior of the books, under the form of graved ex-libris, seals or manuscripts. The presence of these works in the epoch shows the interest of the bibliophile owners for certain domains of knowledge, highlighting the intellectual profile of elite, e.g. a cardinal from Wien and a Catholic bishop from Alba Iulia. The laic books owners were either teachers or persons with nobiliary titles.

Key-words: intellectual, Spain, Alba Iulia, book owners, library, Spanish books, ex-libris.

Books:

• Batthyaneum. Biblioteca Batthyaneum la sfârşitul secolului al XIX-lea. Cartea-catalog a lui Varjú Elemér adnotată şi comentată (Batthyaneum. Batthyaneum Library at the end of 19th century. Annotated and commented Catalog of Varjú Elemér), red., adnotare şi prefaţă: Doina Hendre Biro, trad.: Mihai Kovács, cuvânt înainte: Prof. univ. dr. Iacob Mârza, Bucureşti, Editura Bibliotecii Naţionale a României, 2014.
• Botond, Gudor. Provenienţa unor ex librisuri şi înscrisuri de posesori în Biblioteca Batthyány din Alba Iulia în secolele XVXVIII din perspectiva unei digitizări (The origin of ex libreses and inscriptions of book owners in Batthyány Library of Alba Iulia in XV-XVII century from the perspective of digitization), în Cercetarea şi perspectivele digitizării (Research and perspective of digitization), Ed. Ana Maria Roman-Negoi, Eva Mârza, Cluj-Napoca, Editura Argonaut, 2009, p. 135-162.
• Calderon de la Barca, Pedro. Autos sacramentales alegoricos, y historiales del insigne poeta español Don Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Tomo I-VI, Ediţie îngrijită de Don Pedro Pando y Mier, Madrid, en la Imprenta de Manuel Ruiz de Murga, 1717, BBAI, L4 IV 40.
• Căzan, Ileana. Imaginar şi simbol în heraldica medievală (Imaginary and symbol in medieval heraldry), Bucureşti, Editura Silex, Casă de Editură, Presă şi Impresariat, 1996.
• Comşa, Nicolae; Seiceanu, Teodor. Dascălii Blajului 1754-1948 (Schoolmasters of Blaj 1754-1948), Bucureşti, Editura Demiurg, 1994.
• Ercilla y Zuñiga, Alonso de. Araucana, dividida en tres partes, Madrid, en la Imprenta del Reino, 1632. BBAI, N4 VII 25.
• Fuente, Miguel de la. Libro de las tres vidas de el Hombre, corporal, racional, y espiritual, Ediţia a II-a, Madrid, en la Imprenta Real por Joseph Rodriguez Escobar, 1710. BBAI, D4 III 33.
• Mariana, Iuan de. Historia general de España, compuesta, enmenda y añadida por el padre Iuan de Mariana de la Compañía de Jesus, Con el Sumario, y Tablas y ahora nuevamente añadido en esta ultima impresión por Don Felix Lucio de Espinosa y Malo, todo lo sucedido desde el año de mil y seiscientos y sesenta y nueve, hasta el setenta y ocho, tomo primero, Madrid, por Andres Garcia de la Iglesia, 1678. BBAI, Z2 III 21.
• Medrano, Sebastian Fernandez de. Breve descripcion del mundo ò guia geografica: Lo mas principal de ella en Verso, con su Mapa Mundi, perceptible aunque pequeño: y en Presa todas las principales Villas de cada Provincia, y un Tratado de lo que posee cada Soberano, al presente, Bruselas, Por Lamberto Marchand. 1702, BBAI, XIV 37.
• Medrano, Sebastian Fernandez de. Breve descripcion del mundo ò guia geografica: Lo mas principal de ella en Verso, con su Mapa Mundi, perceptible aunque pequeño: y en Presa todas las principales Villas de cada Provincia, y un Tratado de lo que posee cada Soberano, al presente, Bruselas, Por Lamberto Marchand. 1702, BBAI, XIV 37.
• Obras de UV.P. Maestro Fray Luis de Granada de orden de Santo Domingo, Tom I-XXVII, Madrid, en la Imprenta Real por Joseph Rodriquez de Escobar (Tom I-III, VIII, XI, XIII, XIV, XVII); en la Imprenta de Manuel Ruiz de Murga (Tom IV, XX, XXI, XXIV, XXV); Juan Garcia Infançon (Tom V, VII, XII, XIII, XV, XVI, XXVI); Antonio Gonzales de Reyes (Tom VI, IX, X, XVIII, XIX, XXII, XXIII, XXVII), 1711, BBAI, A2 VIII 2-28.
• Plutarh. Vida de Numai Pompiliu segundo rey de los romanos escrita por texto de Plutarco y ponderata con discursos por Don Antonio Costa Señor de Corbins, Ballestar, y Pallarols, Barcelona, por el Impressor Ioseph Llopis, 1693, BBAI, C3 VI 34.
• Quadra, Sebastian de la. Dialogos de medallas, inscriciones, y otras antiquedades, Madrid, en la Oficina de Joseph Francisco Martinez Abad, 1744.BBAI, B3 IV 11.
• Ritter, Joseph. Vida y virtudes de la serenissima señora D-a Maria Ana, Reyna de Portugal, y los Algarves, Princesa Real de Hungria, y Bohemia, y archiducesa de Austria, escrita en idioma latino por el Padre Joseph Ritter, Sacerdote de la Compañia de Jesus y Doctor en Sagrada Theologia y traducida al castellano por el padre Joseph Guerra, Madrid, en la Oficina de Antonio Marin, 1757, BBAI, U2 V 7.
• Sales Meyer, Franz. Ornamentica, o gramatică a formelor decorative (Ornamentation, a grammar of decorative forms), vol. II, Traducere şi cuvânt înainte Radu Florescu, Bucureşti, Editura Meridiane, 1988.
• Sobrino, Francisco. Diccionario nuevo de las lenguas Española y Francesa. El mas amplio y el mejor que ha salido à luz hasta ahora, en que se contiene la explicacion del Español en Francès, y del France sen Español; con las Phráses y modos de hablar particuláres, sacadas de diferentes Autores Españoles, principalmente de Covarrubias, Saavedra, Quevedo, Gracian,Solis, y del Diccionarìo de la Academia RealEspañola; Y los nombres propios de Hombres y Mugeres, y los de la Naciones; las Explicaciones de los libros de la sagrada Escritura, muchos Refranes, y otras cosas muy curiosas de las Historias antiquas, Ediţia a cincea,Tom I, Brusselas, en la Imprenta de Henrique- Alberto Gosse, 1751, BBAI, O4 II 14.
• Sturdza-Săuceşti, Marcel. Heraldica, tratat tehnic (Heraldry, technical dissertation), Bucureşti, Editura Ştiinţifică, 1974.
• Timoléon Choisy, François (Abad Choisy). Historia General de la Iglesia desde su fundación, hasta el presente siglo. Escrita en Idioma Francès por el Señor Abad de Choysi de la Academia de Paris y traducida en Castellano por Don Estevan Gazan, Tom I- XV, Madrid, en la Imprenta de Musica de Don Eugenio Bieco (Tom I-III), en la Imprenta de Antonio Perez de Soto (Tom IV-XV), 1754 (Tom I-VI),1755 (Tom VII-XV).BBAI, O2 IV 13.
• Trif (Stanciu), Ştefan. Carte spaniolă în biblioteci din Transilvania (sec. XVII-XIX) (Spanish book in libraries in Transylvania (XVII-XIX century), Teză de doctorat susţinută în 2016, coordonator ştiinţific Eva Mârza, Universitatea „1 Decembrie 1918” din Alba Iulia.
• Vida de Miguel Cervántes Saavedra, y Análisis del Quixote, Leipsigue, Tipărită de J. Sommer, 1800, BBAI, Z7 II 10.
• Villaviciosa, Joseph de. La Mosquea, poetica inventiva, en octava rima, Madrid, por D. Antonio de Sancha, 1777, BBAI, J7 VI 23.
• Voltaire, Filosofia, Madrid, Imprenta del Censor, 1822. Biblioteca Batthyaneum Alba Iulia (în continuare BBAI), Z7 I 23.

Annuals:

• Dârja, Ileana. Din istoria Bibliotecii Batthyaneum. Etapa I: 1798-1826 (History of Batthyaneum Library. First stage 17981823), în Apulum, vol. 34, 1997, p. 341-364.
• Dârja, Ileana. Manuscrise migazziene în colecţia Bibliotecii Naţionale a României filiala Batthyaneum Alba Iulia (Manuscripts of Migazzi in National Library collection, Batthyaneum branch), în Apulum, XXXV, 1998, p. 407-415.

On-line sources:

http://cimec.ro/carte/catinc/CuvintInainte.pdf

http://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopediasalmanacs-transcripts-and-maps/migazzi-christoph-anton

http://lexikon.katolikus.hu/S/szentk%C3%A9p.html

Rădulescu, Alexandru; Sabău, Doru. Ex-libris etichetă în colecţiile Bibliotecii Batthyaneum din Alba Iulia (Ex-Libris label in Batthyaneum Library collection), după https://batthyaneumblog.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/darja_ exlibris_7martie2011-322828.pdf

Szinnyei, József, Magyar ĺrók Élete és Munkái, apud http://mek.oszk.hu/03600/03630/html/

“Transylvanice” printings from the Collection of the Tulcea Museum

The Collection of Old Books from the “Gavrilă Simion” Eco-Museum Research Institute of Tulcea contains a few dozens of copies from the category of so-called “Transylvanice” Collection, some editions being present in many volumes or kept in a number of copies. The topic refers to the books printed on the territory of Transylvania influenced by many cultures and religions, written in Latin, German and Hungarian but also to the papers written by German intellectuals and printed in other Printing works, at Lipsiae [Leipzig], Posonii [Bratislava] or Vienna.

The identified books, which are researched or whose value is enhanced by this study, are printed in 1730-1862, the majority coming from printers from Sibiu and Cluj. Among the authors, knowledgeable German historians, one can mention the following names: Martin Felmer, Joseph Carol Eder, Christianus Schesaeus, Iacob Ferdinand Miller. Most books are printed by Martin Hochmeister, Peter Barth, J. Tilsch and other printers from Sibiu and Cluj. Moreover, the “Transylvanice” books kept at Tulcea are representative for the History of the Great Principality of Transylvania: Statuta Municipalia Provinciae Transylvaniae Fratrum Minorum Strictioris Observatiae (Şumuleu-Ciuc], 1730), Minerologia Magni Principatus Transilvaniae (Cluj, 1767), Primae Lineae M. Principatus Transsilvaniae Historiam Antiqui, Medii et Recentioris Aevi (Cibinii, 1780).

The copies come from either the Romanian Academia Library as being a fund which was taken from there, or they were purchased by the Tulcea Museum from the second-hand bookshops from Bucharest. Some books keep the property notes, ex-libris stamps and annotation of some cultural associations or different private people.

Keywords: Transylvanica, bibliology, “Gavrilă Simion” Eco-Museum Research Institute of Tulcea, Cibinii, Claudiopoli, Martin Hochmeister, Peter Barth, Academicis Societatis Jesu, property notes, ex-libris

Bogdan, Florin. Tipărituri transilvănene din colecţiile Muzeului Naţional al Unirii Alba Iulia/ Transylvanian books from the collections of the National Museum of Unification Alba Iulia. Alba Iulia, Editura Altip, 2015, 91 p.

Deju, Georgeta. Transilvanice din colecţia muzeului devean. Însemne de proprietate/ ”Transilvanice” from the collection of the Deva Museum. Bookplates. În: Transilvania, 11-12, 2010, p. 19-24.

Florescu, Aurelia. Tezaur. Carte românească veche: 15571830/ Thesaurus. Old Romanian Books: 1557-1830. Craiova, Editura Aius, 2000, 619 p.

Iova, Mariana (coordonator). Bibliografia românească veche: îmbogăţită şi actualizată/ Old Romanian Bibliography: enriched and revised, vol. I (A – C). Târgovişte, 2004, 263 p.

Mârza, Eva. Transylvanica. Un obiect de studiu neglijat/ ”Transylvanica”: a neglected topic. În: Transilvania, 11-12, 2010, p. 1-4.

Mârza, Iacob. „Transylvanica” la Biblioteca Batthyaneum din Alba Iulia (IV): cărţi de la Sibiu/ ”Transylvanica” of Batthyaneum Library from Alba Iulia (IV): books from Sibiu. În: Transilvania, anul XLII (CXLVI), 6-7, 2015, p. 103108.

Mârza, Iacob. „Transylvanica” la Biblioteca Batthyaneum din Alba Iulia (V): cărţi de la Cluj/ ”Transylvanica” of Batthyaneum Library from Alba Iulia (V): books from Cluj. În: Transilvania, anul XLIV (CXLVIII), 4-5, 2016, p. 120-126.

Nägler, Doina. Catalogul Transilvanicelor/ Catalogue of ”Transylvanice”, vol. II (sec. XVIII). Sibiu, 1982, 326 p.

Petrik, Géza. Magyarország bibliographiája 1712-1860, vol. I-IV. Budapest, 1888-1892.

Râpă-Buicliu, Dan. Bibliografia românească veche. Additamenta I (1536-1830)/ Old Romanian Bibliography. Additions I (1536-1830). Galaţi, Editura Alma, 2000, 494 p.

Veress, Andrei. Bibliografia română-ungară (1473-1878)/ The Romanian-Hungarian Bibliography, vol. I-III. Bucureşti, „Cartea Românească”, 1931 (I-II), 1935 (III).

Veress, Andrei. Tipografia românească din Buda/ The Romanian printing works from Buda. În: Boabe de grâu, anul III, 12, 1932, p. 593-612.

Incunabula from the collections of the Bucharest Metropolitan Library

Recent researches carried out in the storehouses of different institutions holding heritage assets such as old books led to new conclusions with regard to redating or reidentifications of some old printings, more than once information correcting bibliographies and specialised catalogues. A particular case is the unstudied holdings, mostly due to absence of specialised staff or organizing issues.

This study proposes to bring new contributions on copies of old printings from the incunabular period existent on the territory of Romania. We have in view the collection of Nicolae Iorga Library, belonging to Bucharest Metropolitan Library, collection that comprises three incunabula unknown to specialised bibliography. We refer to titles launched by printing houses that functioned in Italy, in Venice at the end of the XVth century: Toma de Aquino, Summa contra gentiles (1480); Robertus Caracciolus, Opera (1490) and Gaietanus de Thienis, Expositio in Aristotelem (1493).

Keywords: incunabula, Italy, Venice, 15th century, Bucharest Metropolitan Library

Copinger, W. A., Supplement to Hain’s Repertorium Bibliographicum. Part I, London, 1895.

Goff, Frederick R., Incunabula in American Libraries. A third Census of fifteenth-century books recorded in North American Collections, New York, 1964.

Sajó Géza, Soltész Erszébet, Catalogus incunabulorum quae in bibliothecis Hungariae asservantur, vol. I-II, Budapestini, 1970.

Schatz, Elena-Maria; Stoica, Robertina, Catalogul colectiv al incunabulelor din România/ Collective catalogue of incunabula from Romania, Cimec, Bucureşti, 2007.

Considerations and contributions regarding the beginnings and the evolution of the greek-catholic archpriest parish district of Turda between 1700-1830

The issue of the Greek-Catholic archpriest parish district and archpriests of Turda is a less tackled topic both in general as in the local historiography. The present paper has the purpose of bring new information and interpretations on this topic, as well as recovering a forgotten part of the confessional history of the town of Turda. The Greek-Catholic archpriest parish district of Turda is one of the oldest presbyterial units of the Romanian United Church. Its emergence coincides with unification moment of a part from the Transylvania’s Romanian believers withe Rome. Thus, at the synod of 14th of September 1700, the archpriest Pascu from Turda was signing, together with the 28 priests subordinated to him, the documents that consented to the religious union with Rome. This way came into existence the Greek-Catholic archpriest parish district of Turda, which along history has been an important landmark in the evolution of the Romanian community from this region. The Greek-Catholic archpriests of Turda were remarkable personalities of the local community and beyond, bringing their valuable contribution to its development. The distinguished united clerics had a thorough specialized training acquired at the schools of Blaj.

Keywords: Greek-Catholic Church, Turda, Archpriest, Romanian community, Transylvania

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Mârza, Iacob, Şcoală şi naţiune. Şcolile din Blaj în epoca renaşterii naţionale [School and nation. Blaj Schools in the Era of National Revival], Cluj-Napoca, Editura Dacia, 1987, 239 p.

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Micu-Moldovan, Ioan, Acte sinodali ale baserecei române de Alb’a Iulia şi Fagarasiu [Synodal Acts of the Romanian Church from Alba Iulia and Fărăraş], tomu II, Blasiu, 1872, 124 p.

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Neagu, Răzvan Mihai, Formarea intelectualităţii din Turda. Studenţi din Turda la marile universităţi europene 13771918 [The Formation of the Intelligentsia from Turda. Students from Turda at the Great European Universities 1377-1918], Cluj-Napoca, Editura Mega, 2015, 273 p.

Oros, Ioan, Modalităţi de creştere a colecţiilor bibliotecilor parohiale practicate la Blaj (1747-1876). Cazul Ţării Silvaniei [Methods to increase parish libraries collections practiced at Blaj (1747-1876). The case of Silvania Land] în Annales Universitatis Apulensis, Series Historica, 11/I, 2007, pp. 84113.

Oros, Ioan, Schiţă de istorie a bibliotecilor din Ţara Silvaniei (sec. XVII-XIX) din perspectivă paratextolografică [History sketch of the Silvania Land’s libraries (XVIIth-XIXth centuries) from paratextolographic perspective] în Apulum XLIV/2007, pp. 441-459.

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Zecheru, Alexandra Dana, Figuri de protopopi grecocatolici albaiulieni de la sfârşitul secolului al XIX-lea şi începutul secolului al XX-lea [Figures of Greek-Catholic Archpriests from Alba Iulia at the end of the XIXth century and the beginnings of the XXth century ] în Apulum, XLIII/2, 2006, pp. 285-292.

The image of Habsburg Monarchy in Samuil Micu’s work

The Enlightenment began for the Transylvanian Romanians with the Religious Unification act of 1700. It was stopped in this way the dissolution of the Orthodox Church threatened by Calvinism and it had been inserting to collective sensitivity the possibility of social regeneration by conversion to the Greek-Catholic confession, promoted by the Habsburg Empire. The advantages of the religious union with the Church of Rome occurred in secular culture, but also in the religious culture by sending young scholars to complete their studies at the Urban College of Propaganda Fide in Rome and Pazmaneum in Vienna. Among young people sent to study in these institutions is also Samuil Micu, who had impressed through the complexity of thought and his encyclopedic knowledge.

Being trained at the universities of the empire, into an Enlightenment background, the Transylvanian intellectual will structural assume the discourse of Emperor Joseph II, and his image reveals the propensity of the Romanian community towards the sovereign in Vienna. Samuil Micu’s vision is iosefin and it is expressed itself in the language of the emperor. Servitude is condemned in vehement terms, the suffering of the serfs impresses him, but the improvement of the social conditions had to result from the reforming work of the emperor, and not by a rebellion of the dissatisfied masses. In those circumstances, the reign of Joseph II offers Samuil Micu the best time in the eighteenth century to express his solidarity with the reformist sovereign.

Keywords: Samuil Micu; Habsburg Empire; Emperor Joseph II; Transylvanian; servitude

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Border Guard Schools Libraries Contents

A good quality education system implied to endow and equip school libraries, in order to serve to „the advancement and rising of education”. They were meant to help and enrich the knowledge of pupils and school teachers, but equally to help the villagers. That is why the libraries from former ranger schools were well equipped. They contained manuals, fiction, periodicals and other useful publications, printed on both sides of Carpathian mountains, as well as famous classical authors. Part of these books were inhereted from times when these villages formed the military border of the country. The most important library was in Orlat village and contained 403 volumes. Other village school libraries had a pretty big number of volumes for those times: Cugir, 370; Haţeg, 218; Copăcel, 130; Veştem, 118; Mărgineni, 117.

Keywords: library, school, volume, border guard, Orlat, Hateg, Vestem

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Ioan (John) or Iancu Hunyadi? The name of the anti-Ottoman warrior in the Byzantine chronicles

The name of the great anti-Ottoman warrior still remains a disputed issue in historiography. Given that the specialist haven’t yet agreed if he was Ioan (John) or Iancu, the controversy continues. Contemporary Byzantine chronicler – Georgios Sphrantzes, Doukas, Laonikos Chalkokondylas, Kritobulos of Imbros and Zotikos Paraspondylos – submitted numerous information regarding the life and activity of the Transylvanian hero. Such information is found in the late chronicles also, as the one of Makarios Melissenos (Pseudo-Phrantzes) and various insignificant ones. In all these papers we can found the same inconsistence – all the authors use either Ioan (John) or Iancu.

Keywords: Ioan (John) / Iancu Hunyadi, Georgios Sphrantzes, Doukas, Laonikos Chalkokondylas, Kritobulos of Imbros, Zotikos Paraspondylos, Makarios Melissenos (Pseudo-Phrantzes), insignificant chronicles.

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Chronik 62 (Hss Clop). În P. Schreiner, Die byzantinischen Kleinchroniken, 1. Teil Einleitung und Text, Wien, 1975.

Chronik 82. În P. Schreiner, Die byzantinischen Kleinchroniken, 1. Teil Einleitung und Text, Wien, 1975.

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Grecu, V., Introducere la Critobul din Imbros, Din domnia lui Mahomed al II-lea. Anii 1451-1467, Bucureşti, 1963.

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Idem, La bataille de Varna, publié par É. Legrand. În Collection de Monuments pour servir a l’étude de la Langue NéoHellénique, Nouvelle Série, 5, 1875, v. 1-465.

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Pseudo-Phrantzes: Macarie Melissenos, Chronicon (Cronica) 1258-1481. În G. Sphrantzes, Memorii 14011477. În anexă: Pseudo-Phrantzes: Macarie Melissenos, Cronica 1258-1481, ediţie de V. Grecu, Bucureşti, 1966.

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An interesting British perspective from the early nineteenth century in his work „History of the House of Austria” on Russian-Austrian-Turkish War of 1787-1792

William Coxe is a leading English traveller and memorialist who in the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century, published a series of books about Central and Eastern Europe. Born in London in 1747 and educated at Eton College, William Coxe was able to visit on several occasions this geographical area, as guardian of some young men, members of English aristocratic families. All his travels and experiences were published by the author in various papers, most of them having a strong historical and memorialist character. His work “History of the House of Austria, from The Foundation Of The Monarchy by Rhodolph of Hapsburgh, The Death of Leopold The Second: 1218 … to .. 1792” was published in two volumes in London in 1807. The above mentioned book is William Coxe’s most important historical work and, by its magnitude, paves the way for the Anglo-Saxon historiography which systematically dealt with the Habsburg Empire history . His book also contains original documents, though his own writing is of the dullest manner and shows no higher qualities than those of the conscientious analyst. This paper aims to follow how the author and the Anglo-Saxon perceived political relations between the House of Habsburg and the Principality of Transylvania in the nineteenth century from the perspective of Russian-Austrian-Turkish war of 17871792 period.

Keyword: William Coxe, House of Habsburg, Transylvania, english historiography, the Habsburg reformism, Russian-Austrian-Turkish war

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King, Charles, Marea Neagră: o istorie (Black Sea: a history), Traducere de Dorian Branea şi Cristina Chevereşan, Iaşi, Editura Polirom, 2015.

Mayer, Matthew Z., The Price for Austria’s Security: Part I. Joseph II, the Russian Alliance, and the Ottoman War, 17871789, în The International History Review, vol. 26, nr. 2, 2004.

Niţă-Danielescu, Daniel, Războaiele dintre ruşi şi turci din secolul al XVIII-lea şi implicaţiile lor asupra Bisericii Ortodoxe Române din Moldova (Wars between Russians and Turks from the 18th Century and Their Implications on the Romanian Orthodox Church in Moldova), Iaşi, Editura Universităţii „Alexandru Ioan Cuza”, 2009.

O. Noyes, James, România Ţară de Hotar între creştini şi turci. Cu aventuri din călătoria prin Europa răsăriteană şi Asia Apuseană, (Romania Border Land between Christians and Turks. Adventures from the journey through Estern Europe and Western Asia), Traducere din engleză şi note de Eugen Popa, Bucureşti, Editura Humanitas, 2016.

Troyat, Henri, Ecaterina cea Mare (Catherine the great), Ediţia a II-a, Traducere din limba franceză de Elisabeta Niculescu şi Simona Brânzaru, Bucureşti, Editura Corint, 2015.

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Syphilis in Romanian old books

In the eighteenth century plague epidemics in addition Transylvanian population has been infected with sexually transmitted diseases. These include syphilis. The first doctor sent from Vienna, who reported the disease in Transylvania, was Andre Etienne, mentioning it in his report for 1786. How long worked in the mining area of the Apuseni Mountains, tried to stop the illness, discovering a method of treating syphilis, experimentându it right on his patients. Transylvania gubernatorial being warned of the new treatment, the doctor asked in 1792 to submit written procedure. The memo was written over a year in Latin. The management of the Vienna immediately after taking possession of the report, ordered its translation into German, Hungarian and Romanian. The interpretation of a text in Romanian and recovered John Molnar Piuariu, while the Hungarian translation was made by Andrei Szőts. Over a year was printed in oficina Peter Bart Cluj edition in Romanian. Transylvania gubernatorial ordered its printing several copies to be sent to every town and village.

Keywords: disease, syphilis, books, physician, cure.

Bianu, Ion; Hodoş, Nerva, Bibliografia Românească Veche 1508-1830 (Old Romanian Bibliography 1508-1830), I-IV, 1508-1830, Bucureşti, Editura Academiei Române, 1903-1934, nr. 663.

Bologa, Valeriu, Din istoria sifilisului (History of pox), Cluj-Napoca, Tipografia Naţională, 1931.

Bologa, Valeriu; Spielmann, Jozsef; Z. Szokefalvi Nagy, Contribuţii noi la viaţa şi activitatea lui Ioan PiuariuMolnar (1719-1815) (New contributions to the life and work of Ioan Piuariu-Molnar 1719-1815), în Anuarul Institutului de istorie şi arheologie Cluj (Yearbook of the Institute of History and Archaeology Cluj), anul XIV, 1971.

Bologa, Em; Huttmann, A., Despre tratamentul diferenţiat al bolilor venerice în Transilvania secolului al XVIII-lea (About the different treatment of venereal diseases in Transylvania of the 18th century), în Din istoria luptei antiepidemice în România (History of anti-epidemic struggle in Romania), Bucureşti, Editura Medicală, 1972.

Bărbulescu, Daniela, Completări şi îndreptări la Bibliografia Românească Veche (Additions and corrections to Old Romanian Bibliography), în Biserica Ortodoxă Română (Romanian Ortodox Church), LXXVIII (1960), nr. 5-6.

Brătescu, Gheorghe, Grija pentru Sănătate. Primele tipărituri de interes medical în limba române (1581-1820) (Care for helth. First medical printings in romanian (1581-1820), Bucureşti, Editura Medicală, 1988.

Buta, Mircea Gelu; Pupeză, Magda, Aspecte ale asistenţei medico-sanitare, din ţinutul Năsăudului în timpul regimentului de graniţă (1762-1851) (Aspects of medical assistance from Năsăud county in the time of border regiment (1762-1851), în Revista Bistriţei (Bistriţa’s Revue), nr. VIII, 1994.

Cservény, Anton, Cronica calamităţilor şi epidemiilor din Ardeal, Banat şi teritoriile mărginaşe de la 1007 – 1872 (The Chronicle of disasters and epidemics from Ardeal, Banat and border counties from 1007-1872), Teză, Cluj-Napoca, Tipografia Gloria, 1934.

Enciclopedia Universală Britannica (Britannica), coord. Ilieş Câmpeanu, Cornelia Marinescu, vol. XIV, Bucureşti, Editura Litera, 2010.

Galffy, Iulian; Băcilă, Emilian, Date antiepidemice în circulare episcopeşti din regiunea grănicerească bănăţeană (17841855) (Antiepidemic data in episcopal writs from border county of Banat 1784-1855), în Din istoria luptei antiepidemice în România. Studii şi Note (History of anti-epidemic struggle in Romania. Studies and Notes), Bucureşti, Editura Medicală, 1972.

Ghiţan, T; Ştirbu, C., Propuneri pentru înfiinţarea unor instituţii spitaliceşti în regiunea Zlatnei şi a Văii Arieşului (1786) (Proposals to establish medical units in Zlatna and Valea Arieşului regions (1786), în Din Istoria Medicinii Româneşti şi Universale (History of Romanian and Universal Medicine), sub îngrijirea prof. Valeriu Bologa, Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Române, 1962.

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Mârza, Eva, Preocupări de diplomatică la Vasilie Popp (Diplomatic work of Vasilie Pop), în Tentaţia Istoriei. În memoria profesorului Pompiliu Teodor (History temptation. In memoriam of professor Pompiliu Teodor), ClujNapoca, 2003.

Poenaru, Daniela, Contribuţii la Bibliografia Românească Veche (Contributions to Old Romanian Bibliography), Târgovişte, Muzeul Judeţean Dâmboviţa, 1973, nr. 663.

Popp, Vasilie, Disertaţie despre tipografiile româneşti în Transilvania şi învecinatele ţări de la începutul lor până la vremile noastre, Sibiu, 1838 (Dissertiation about romanian printing houses in Transylvania and neighboring countries from its beginnings until our time, Sibiu, 1838), Cluj-Napoca, Editura Dacia, 1995.

Răduţiu, Aurel; Gyémánt, Ladislau, Repertoriul actelor oficiale privind Transilvania tipărite în limba română 1701 – 1847(The repertoire of official acts regarding Transylvania printed in romanian 1701-1847), Bucureşti, Editura Ştiinţifică şi Enciclopedică, 1981.

Rothbacher, Ernest, Un spital antivenerian la Hălchiu în 1787 (A venereal desease hospital at Hălchiu in 1787), în vol. Din Istoria luptei antiepidemice în România (History of anti-epidemic struggle in Romania), Bucureşti, Editura Medicală, 1972.

Samarian, Pompei Teodor, Medicina şi farmacia în trecutul românesc (Medicine and pharmacy in the Romanian background), II, Bucureşti, 1938.

Spielmann, Jozsef, Restituiri istorico-medicale (Medical history restitutions), Bucureşti, Editura Kriterion, 1980.

Vintilă – Ghiţulescu, Constanţa, Patimă şi desfătare. Despre lucrurile mărunte ale vieţii cotidiene în societatea românească 1750-1860 (Lust and delight. About the little things of everyday life in romanian society 1750-1860), Bucureşti, Editura Humanitas, 2015.

Transylvanian religious books in Walachia in the era of Phanariot reigns (1716-1821). Dissemination, reception and Orthodox counteroffensive

The methods of dissemination and circulation of Romanian old book printed in Walachia in the era of Phanariot reigns (1716-1821) in Transylvania and Banat have been extensively researched. It is fully proved that despite measures of censure and prohibition of „schismatic” books across the mountains the Habsburg authorities regularly take, the liturgical book in Romanian penetrates not only in Orthodox churches, but even in the United ones. Less investigated is the reverse phenomenon, of the dissemination in the Romanian Countries of books published in the empire’s printing presses during the eighteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth century. Since the second half of the eighteenth century, as a reaction to the ban on import of Church book in the Orthodox space by imperial decrees 1768 and 1770, as well as increasing of the number of Transylvanian books entering the local market and Orthodox hierarchs start to formally react to the sales of these books in their dioceses. If at first complaints to rulers have a rather economic motivation, to stem competition, invoking the privilege granted to local print shops on the sale of religious books (1765), in time they acquire a strictly theological argument, invoking non-compliance with Orthodox church tenets (1793, 1804). It was only in 1793 in Walachia the establishment of customs control over books printed in other places, especially in printing presses from Blaj and Sibiu and acceptance for sale only after prior verification made by representatives of the Archdiocese (for religious books) and of the Reign (for those with secular content). Thus import of Transylvanian book was not banned, but only subject to the confessional and moral censorship.

Our research follows dissemination practices and how Transylvanian books are received by the Romanian society against the background of prohibitive measures taken by local authorities. Our documentary support was constituted by deeds issued by hierarchies and rulers of Walachia on imports of books from the Habsburg Empire, as well as the writs on specimens preserved in various collections, which entered the Walachia during the mid-eighteenth century, until the mid-nineteenth century.

Key words: Walachia, old Romanian book, notes, methods of distribution, books sale, privilege

Bănică-Ologu, Nicolae. Contribuţia cărţii râmnicene la formarea conştiinţei naţionale româneşti/The Contribution of Râmnic books to the formation of Romanian national conscience. În: vol. Valori bibliofile din patrimoniul cultural national, I, Râmnicu-Vâlcea, 1980, pp. 41–48.

Bianu, Ioan; Simonescu, Dan. Bibliografia românească veche / The Old Romanian Bibliography, III, IV, Bucureşti, 1938, 1944.

The Influence of Ukrainian Woodcuts on Different Romanian Typographical Centers (17th-19th Centuries)

The Ukrainian woodcuts, particularly those accomplished at Kiev and Lviv, reached high values both as the aesthetic and technical aspects are concerned. The influence of the Ukrainian woodcut on the Romanian one contributed to the modernization of national graphic art. The political, ecclesiastical and cultural relations between Romania and Ukraine made their contributions to the development of printing and xylography on the Romanian territory. Among the Ukrainian gifted craftsmen who came to Romania was Ilia A. He decorated Warlaam’s Homiletics (Iasi, 1643) which is one of the most beautiful Romanian books. Ukrainian books were intensely circulated within the Romanian monachal and typographical ambience. The Romanian typographical centers in which the book graphics is directly influenced by the Ukrainian one are: Govora, Cămpulung, Mănăstirea Dealu, Târgovişte, Iaşi, Bucharest, Buzău, Râmnic, Rădăuţi, Blaj, Mănăstirea Neamţ. Therefore 7 centers are from Wallachia, 3 from Moldovia and 1 from Transylvania. In the 17th century there were 7 centers, in the 18th century, 6 and in the 19th century, 2. The Romanian woodcuts of Ukrainian origin were used as models as well, and in that case the Ukrainian influence is indirect.

Keywords: woodcut, typography, Kiev, Lvov, Iaşi, Bucharest, Buzău, Blaj.

Popa, Atanasie, Cazania lui Varlaam, 1643|Varlaam’s Homiletics, 1643, Timişoara, Editura Helicon, 1944.

Racoveanu, Gheorghe, Gravura în lemn la Mănăstirea Neamţul|The Woodcut in the Monastery of Neamţ, Bucureşti, Fundaţia Regală pentru Literatură şi Artă, 1940.

Ştrempel, Gabriel, Sprijinul acordat de Rusia tiparului românesc în secolul al XVII-lea/The Support Given by Russia to Romanian Typographies in the 17th Century, în Studii şi cercetări bibliologice,I, 1955, p .15-42.

Tatai-Baltă, Cornel, Receptarea xilogravurii ucrainene la Blaj/The Reception of Ukrainian woodcut at Blaj, în Ars Transsilvaniae, IV, 1994, p. 97-113.

Tatai-Baltă, Cornel, Gravorii în lemn de la Blaj (17501830)/The Wood Engravers from Blaj (1750-1830), Blaj, Editura Eventus, 1995.

Tatay, Anca Elisabeta, Tatai-Baltă, Cornel, Xilogravura din cartea românească veche tipărită la Bucureşti (1582-1830)/ The Woodcut in the Early Romanian Books Printed in Bucharest (1582-1830), Cluj-Napoca, Editura Mega, 2015.

Tomescu, Mircea, Istoria cărţii româneşti de la începuturi până la 1918/The History of Romanian Book from the Beginning to 1918, Bucureşti, Editura Ştiinţifică, 1968.

Three Printed Editions of the Consecration Preaching of Bishop Grigore Maior, Vienna, 1773

The consecration of the Greek-Catholic Bishop, Grigore Maior, which took place in the Chapel of St. Peter from Vienna, in the presence of the empress and her Court, was not just an important political moment for Romanians living in Transylvania, but also a fashionable one. This paper deals with the consecration preaching conducted by the Viennese Abbot, Anton Ruschitzka, entitled Predigt von der Einigkeit im Christenthume über Johann 17, 20, 21. Besides the German edition of the preaching, the printer, Josep Kurzböck, who has had long ties with Grigore Maior, e. g. he was a censor of Romanian books printed in this typography, also printed a Slavic-Serbian and a Latin one.

We hope that this research, which approaches the subject from a more bibliological point of view, will shed some light on the social history of 18th century Transylvania, as part of the Habsburg Empire. We consider this event of the consecration of a Romanian Greek-Catholic Bishop in Vienna, as being important to contemporary Romanian historiography.

Keywords: Grigorea Maior, Bishop Greek-Catholic, Joseph von Kurzböck, printing house, Vienna

Catalogus Bibliothecae Hungaricae Nationalis Széchényianae. Tom I Scriptores Hungaros et Rerum Hungaricarum […]. Supplementum. T. A-Z. Posonii, Typis Belnaianis, 1803.

Gorun, Gheorghe. Cenzorii români de la tipografia din Buda de la începutul secolului al XIX-lea [Romanian censors from the printing house in Buda from the early nineteenth century]. Ed. Logos ’94, 2002. Online: http://www. rasfoiesc.com/hobby/arta-cultura/CENZORII-ROMANIDE-LA-TIPOGRAF41.php

Magyar Könyvészet 1712-1920 Petrik Géza retrospektiv bibliografiája és pótlások, Arcanum Digitéka, 2000.

Mârza, Eva. Tipograful vienez Joseph Lorenz von Kurzböck şi cartea românească veche, vector al identităţii cultural [Viennese typographer Joseph Lorenz von Kurzböck and old Romanian book, vector of cultural identity]. În Transilvania, 2013, nr. 5–6, p. 13.

Mârza, Eva. Introducere, în Cartea românească veche în Imperiul Habsburgic (1691-1830). Recuperarea unei identităţi cultural [Old Romanian Book in the Habsburg Empire (1691–1830). Recovery of a cultural identity]. ClujNapoca, Ed. Mega, 2016, p. 40-41.

Micu, Samuil. Scurtă cunoştinţă a istorii romînilor [Brief knowledge of history Romanians]. Bucureşti, Ed. Ştiinţifică, 1963.

Pâclişanu, Zenovie. Istoria Bisericii Române Unite [United Romanian Church history]. Ediţie îngrijită de Ioan Tîmbuş, Galaxia Gutenberg, 2006.

Tóth, Zoltán I. Primul secol al naţionalismului românesc ardelean 1697-1792 [First century of Transylvanian Romanian nationalism 1697-1792]. Ed. Pythagora, 2001.

Prezentul număr al Revistei Transilvania cuprinde lucrările Conferinţei naţionale Bibliologie şi Patrimoniu Cultural Naţional. Cartea românească veche în Imperiul Habsburgic (1691-1830), Ediţia a X-a, 24-25 noiembrie 2016, Alba Iulia.

Conferinţa a fost organizată de Universitatea „1 Decembrie 1918” din Alba Iulia, Facultatea de Istorie şi Filologie – Departamentul de Istorie, Arheologie şi Muzeologie cu sprijinul Muzeului Naţional al Unirii Alba Iulia-Centrul Naţional de Conservare şi Restaurare a Cărţii Vechi. Evenimentul a fost marcat de aniversarea a 10 ani de la organizarea la Alba Iulia, în cadrul Universităţii „1 Decembrie 1918”, a primei ediţii a conferinţei naţionale dedicate bibliologiei şi patrimoniului cultural naţional şi de finalizarea proiectului Cartea românească veche în Imperiul Habsburgic (1691-1830). Recuperarea unei identităţi culturale, Cod proiect PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0314, Contract de finanţare nr. 84/05.10.2011, Perioada de derulare 2011-2016, finanţator UEFISCDI.

În călătoria ei ştiinţifică, Bibliologia şi Patrimoniul Cultural Naţional a avut alături Revista Transilvania, în paginile căreia au fost înregistrate rezultate şi contribuţii semnificative la dezvoltarea acestor domenii. Revista Transilvania, numerele 11-12/2010, 5-6/2012, 5-6/2013, 5-6/2014, 6-7/2015, 4-5/2016 au scos la lumină eforturile cercetătorilor români şi străini participanţi la manifestarea noastră anuală, care s-au aplecat cu constanţă şi pasiune asupra bogatului fond al patrimoniului cultural, al cărţii vechi cu preponderenţă.

S-au reunit la Alba Iulia cu prilejul celei de-a X-a ediţii, specialişti ai unor instituţii reprezentative din ţară: Universitatea “Babeş-Bolyai” Cluj-Napoca, Universitatea “Ştefan cel Mare” Suceava, Universitatea Creştină “Dimitrie Cantemir” Cluj-Napoca, Universitatea “1 Decembrie 1918” din Alba Iulia, Biblioteca Batthyaneum-Filiala Bibliotecii Naţionale a României, Biblioteca Academiei Române-Cluj-Napoca, Muzeul Municipiului Bucureşti, Muzeul Naţional al Unirii Alba Iulia, Muzeul Civilizaţiei Dacice şi Romane Deva, Biblioteca Judeţeană Satu Mare, Biblioteca Universităţii “1 Decembrie 1918” din Alba Iulia, Institutul de Cercetări Eco-Muzeale Tulcea. Suntem onoraţi şi bucuroşi că textele cu care Domniile lor s-au prezentat la manifestarea noastră se regăsesc în acest număr special al Revistei Transilvania.

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