ENEA SILVIO PICCOLOMINI ÎN BIBLIOTECI TRANSILVANE. STUDIU DE CAZ: EPISTOLAE FAMILIARES, 1496, DE LA BIBLIOTECA CENTRALĂ UNIVERSITARĂ “LUCIAN BLAGA”
ENEA SILVIO PICCOLOMINI IN TRANSYLVANIAN LIBRARIES. CASE STUDY: EPISTOLAE FAMILIARES, 1496 FROM CENTRAL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY “LUCIAN BLAGA” FROM CLUJ-

Summary/Abstract: Enea Silvio Piccolomini, i. e. Pope Pius II, humanist, but also a churchman, has leaved to posterity important writings, among which one may count his letters (Epistolae familiares) printed in several editions starting in 1481. The copy of the Epistolae printed in 1496, preserved in the Central University Library “Lucian Blaga” Cluj-Napoca, has traveled a long way. Its trip started from the printing shop of Anton Koberger in Nuremberg, and then reached the Cistercian abbacy at Brno, in Moravia, wherefrom arrived in the libraries of bibliophiles such as Laszló Mikó and Ludovic Pogir. Later it came into the ownership of the Kolozsvári Casino, wherein the book was attached new covers. An inventory seal indicates another owner, the Erdélyi Muzeum wherefrom the book arrived at its current owner. This is the circulation of this incunabulum and the owners who left their traces on the copy of Piccolomini’s Epistolae edited in 1496 by the Swiss humanist Nicolaus von Wyle. This study makes a presentation of the copy from the perspective of book science, intending to make research of the content as a next step, insisting on its relationship to the history of Transylvania.

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