Biblioteci particulare din comitatul Hunedoarei: Castelul Corvinilor (secolul al XVII-lea)
Private Libraries from the Hunedoara County: The Corvin Castle (XVII-th century)

Summary/Abstract: This Communication brings to attention a collection of books from the XVII-th century, located at the Corvin Castle in Hunedoara, that were recorded in an inventory of the Hunedoara domain during the period of November1681- April 1682. The inventory, ordered by the owner of the castle in that period, Imre Thököly (owner between 1673-1685), was realised by Ioan Bajoni, his subject, who made a thorough and systematic description of the castle. This is an important landmark in the court life and history of the castle. When the inventory was conducted, the book collection was to be found in the “Lady’s Chamber”, located in the Mathia Loggia. In the inventory there can be distinguished 20 titles which Ioan Bajoni noted in a short manner, none having specified the place or year of appearence: Istvánffy Historiája; Historia de Animalibus; Historia Constantinopolitana; Anatomiae Institutiones; Centuria Mizaldi; Logica Peripathetica; Articuli Posonienses; Corona Martyrum; Jocorum seria Melandri; Seneca; Gustavus Adolphus magiar historjája; Liber Polygraphia; Continuatio Austriaca austeritatis; Groff Úr Exercitiumos könyve; Explicationes Rhetoricae; Praxis pietatis; Varadi öreg Biblia; Disputatio philosophica de essentia Divina; Az Ur Diariuma… 1676,77,78 a magyari dolgokrul, es magaé-irul; Párias Könyv, mellyben vannak missilis levelek párjai; Templomban való váradi nyomtatás, égi rész inpressum öregh.The titles from the inventory suggest the encyclopaedic profile of the library at the Corvin Castle in Hunedoara, being gifted with books of theology, history, medicine, science of nature, philosophy, alchemy, cryptography etc., and also the owner’s Journal during the years 1676-1678. Identified and analyzed, the books could reveal what was the bibliophile horizon of an aristocrat of the Transylvanian baroque.

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