„Transylvanica” at the Batthyaneum Library (II): books from Braşov
The research of the „Transylvanica” printings from the Batthyaneum Library in Alba Iulia, started „olim tempore” in the ninth decade of the last century, has been resumed from an updated methodological perspective. In the beginning one has investigated the set of „libri alba-carolinensis” (Cf. Transilvania, XXXIX, 11-12, 2010, p. 10-13), while now one has continued with the presentation of 12 old printings from Braşov, out of which 5 have been printed prior to 1711. The chronological limits of the old printings from Braşov have as landmarks the colligates Augustinus Aurelius, Opera and Catalogus, with the specification „Impressum in Inclyta Transylvaniae Corona”, in 1539 (XII-148, coll, 1-2), and respectively C. Dietericus, Epitome catechetica, Corona, Typis Michaelis Hermanii, Anno 1674 (XII-153). The same documentary fund still preserves another 7 books from Braşov, printed between 1725-1825.
Keywords: Transylvania, humanism, Augustinus, Honterus, Saxons, Reform, Wagner, Hermann
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