An Unknown Incunabulum from Teleki-Bolyai Library of Tîrgu-Mureş
Collection of incunabula belonging to Teleki-Bolyai Library from Tîrgu-Mureş includes 69 copies, out of which the audience knows 68 copies. On initiating their classification to the National Cultural Heritage it was discovered, in the colligation containing works of Florentine preacher Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498) printed in the incunabular period, a text of 8 pages representing the work entitled Exposizione sopra el psalmo Verba mea [Florence, 1498], a unique copy in the Romanian area. The theological work, Exposizione sopra el psalmo Verba mea [Florence, 1498], was attributed to Simone Cinozzi or Placido Cinozzi, because its printing was realised after the death of Savonarola, from 1498. By the 8 pages, part of the colligation from Tîrgu-Mureş, we assume that the copy is complete; within our approach of identification relevant was also information obtained from specialists from Cambridge University Library, Bibliothèque Nationale de France or Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart. This study is a contribution to knowing the fund of incunabula existent in Romania, the copy being new, unpublished, but also at global level, only other 18 copies being known.
Keywords: Teleki-Bolyai Library Tîrgu-Mureş, incunabulum, Savonarola, Florence, XVth century
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7. Giuliano Procacci, op. cit., p. 129.
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9. Giuliano Procacci, op. cit., p. 130.
10. Ibidem.
11. André Chastel, op. cit., p. 188-189.
12. Giuliano Procacci, op. cit., p. 132.
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14. Claudio Rendina, Papii. Istorie şi secrete, Bucharest, All Publishing House, 2002, p. 613.
15. Giuliano Procacci, op. cit., p. 132.
16. Cornelia Comorovski, op. cit., p. 93.
17. Giuliano Procacci, op. cit., p. 132.
18. http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girolamo_Savonarola consulted on 27 November 2013.
19. Ibidem.
20. Elena-Maria Schatz, Robertina Stoica, Catalogul colectiv al incunabulelor din România, Bucharest, Cimec, 2007.
21. Call number T. q – 154 b/3
22. Catalogus incunabulorum Bibliothecae Teleki-Bolyai, Tîrgu-Mureş, 1971.
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24. http://istc.bl.uk/search/search.html?operation=record&rsid=741306&q=2 from 27 November 2013 a third census, Millwood (N.Y.), 1973. (Reproduced from the annotated copy of the original edition (New York, 1964) maintained by Goff). (Supplement. , 1972.), nr. S 203; Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum [British Library], 13 parts, London, ‘t Goy-Houten, 1963-2007, (Pts I-IX reproduced from the working copies of the original edition (London, 1908-62) annotated at the Museum); Short-title catalogue of books printed in Italy and of Italian books printed in other countries from 1465 to 1600 now in the British Museum, London, 1958, (Supplement, London, 1986), BMC VII 1209; BMC(It) p. 100; Indice generale degli incunaboli delle biblioteche d’Italia. Compilato da T.M. Guarnaschelli e E. Valenziani [et al.]. 6 vols. Roma, 1943-81, IGI VI, p. 131. Without presenting the printing year, Reichling, Dietrich, Appendices ad Hainii-Copingeri Repertorium Bibliographicum … Emendationes, 6 vol., & index, Monachii, 1905-11 (Supplement, Monasterii, 1914), nr. 14410, p. 285 (we appreciate the help provided by Mrs.
dr. Doina Hendre Biro who made possible researching this work in Batthyaneum Library from Alba Iulia).
25. http://istc.bl.uk/search/search.html?operation=record&rsid=741306&q=2 from 27 November 2013 apud Lorenzo Polizzotto, The Elect Nation. The Savonarolan Movement in (1494-1545), , Clarendon Press, 1994, p. 173-177.
26. R. Ridolfi, Vita di Girolamo Savonarola, II, , 1952, p. 235, note 22, information offered by Nicolas Petit (Réserve des livres rares, Bibliothèque nationale de France), mentioned also in Catologue des incunables [de la BnF].
27. Dr. theol. Christian Hermann (Württenbergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart), Nicolas Petit (Réserve des livres rares, Bibliothèque nationale de France), Liam Sims (Rare books Department, Cambridge University Library).
28. Information is taken over from British Library Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC) and is available online to the address: http://istc.bl.uk/search/search. html?operation=record&rsid=741306&q=2; we consulted it on 27 November 2013.
29. We thank our colleague Dr. Andreea Mârza for the support offered in reading this note!
30. http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hou00749 consulted on 27 November 2013.
31. Volume presents a note drawn up by Bartolome o del Vantaggio and dated to 1499.
