Antické diela v súkromnej knižnici biskupa Zachariáša Mošovského (1542–1587)
Ancient Books in the Private Library of the Bishop Zachariáš Mošovský (1542–1587)

Summary/Abstract: The author of this paper focuses on a presentation of Ancient books in the private library of the bishop Zachariáš Mošovský (1542–1587). Zachariáš Mošovský belonged to prominent personalities of the religious life in Hungary in the 16th century and was a known bibliophile. During his life, he collectedup to 900 titles into his library, where were various codices, incunables and rare prints of the 16th century. In the opening part, the author analysed a story of a library’s reconstruction because books have been scattered into many domestic and foreign libraries due to heritage proceedings. The resultof this heuristic work is presented by a monograph of this author. A lot of books of Ancient writers appeared in this library and this paper deals with the analysis of library’s fund in accordance to the existence of these writings with the reference to records in the inheritance inventory of the library. Theconclusion of this study also includes writers of Christian Ancient times who analogically belong to Ancient literature.

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