The Old Library Stock of the Nagyvárad Roman Catholic Diocese. Vol. II.

The Old Library Stock of the Nagyvárad Roman Catholic Diocese. Vol. II.

The Old Library Stock of the Nagyvárad Roman Catholic Diocese. Vol. II.
17th Century Prints. Catalogue
Edited by András Emődi
NSZL–Diocese Library, Budapest–Nagyvárad (Oradea), 2008., 448 pages
[Old Books of Hungarian Libraries in the Carpathian Basin, 2. Series edited by István Monok]
ISBN 978 963 200 489 2

Language: 
Hungarian
3 000,- Ft
Available
Teljes bibliográfiai leírás/Library catalogue item

This two-volume publication contains the catalogue of the old stock of the Nagyvárad Roman Catholic Diocese Library. András Emődi’s work is a professional achievement and a value rescuing endeavor as a result of which the printed memories of a specific cultural area scattered during the centuries now are published and made available for the interested public. The catalogues already completed or being still edited offer a picture, however fragmented, about the stock of the collections so rich in their time. Our volume contains the material of church libraries at the Nagyvárad Diocese thoroughly reviewed in 2000-2002.

The second volume includes more than 1000 of 17th century prints, this time without the 300 volumes of the same category from the Capuchin monastery, as the situation of that collection has not been completely arranged yet. It does include however the prints of all the countryside churches from between 1601 and 1701 located in the Diocese Library, the number of which amounts to 200.

The database is introduced by a trilingual preface (Hungarian, Romanian, German), with the explanation of the principles of edition and a guide to how to use the catalogue.