Detalii despre câteva lucrări de excepţie din patrimoniul Bibliotecii Brukenthal aparţinând secolelor XV-XVIII
Details about several exceptional works of the 15th - 18th centuries found at Brukenthal Library of Sibiu

Summary/Abstract: LIBER CHRONICARUM by Hartmann Schedel was published by Anton Koberger (a famous printer), in Nürnberg, in 1493, and comprises more than 2000 images. Michael Wohlgemuth and his step-son, Pleydenwurff, worked out more than 600 of them. They are both quoted by the Benezit Catalogue due to their wonderful works. They were both Dürer’s teachers. This issue leads us to another old, interesting and valuable book written by Dürer himself: QUATRE LIVRES D’ALBERT DURER, PEINCTRE & GEOMETRIEN TRES EXCELLENT, DE LA PROPORTION DES PARTIES & POURTRAICTS DES CORPS HUMAINS. It was published in Paris, in 1557. The first edition of the book was written in German language. It was published in Nürnberg, in 1528 (it is the year when Dürer himself died). The second edition was also published in Nürnberg, in 1532. It is a translation into the Latin language. The particular book found at Brukenthal was printed in Paris, in 1557, and it represents a translation from Latin into French. All the tables, pictures and illustrations worked out by Dürer were found there. HARMONIA MACROCOSMICA seu ATLAS UNIVERSALIS ET NOVUS; TOTIUS UNIVERSI CREATI COSMOGRAPHIAM GENERALEM ET NOVAM EXHIBENS presents the maps of the earth and sky as they were carried out by a well known cartographer of Netherlands: Andrea Cellarius Palatinus. It was printed in a printing workshop that was also Gerhard Valk and Petrus Schenk’s library in Amsterdam, in 1708. Other two maps were found in this workshop at the Brukenthal Library of Sibiu: one of them is a map of Europe and the other one is a map of the world as it was seen in the beginning of the 18th century. HARMONIA MACROCOSMICA is a real printed jewel including 27 coloured maps. The work is a special one not only due to the maps it consists of. It is special because it offers the image of the universe in the 17th century. The first edition was printed in 1661; the edition that may be found in the Brukenthal Library was printed in 1708. Brukenthal Library means a collection of 33000 books of the 16th -18th centuries and 422 incunabula that still need to be investigated with a view to revealing theirs secrets and beauties.

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