RARA CROATICA U HUMAČKOJ KNJIŽNICI (1)
RARA CROATICA IN THE LIBRARY OF HUMAC (1)

Summary/Abstract: In this article the author gives results of his months-long meticulous researching of the library contents in the monastery in Humac, which has more than 120 very exceptional copies of some publications of the older Croatian literature, cultural history and science in general. One of them is a copy of Gracić’s literary work “Sacerdotis viatoris analysis theoreticopractica…” from 1975 which is today the only known copy of that work, for which can be said that it is situated in a specific place and that is available to a reader. The real treasure is certainly a copy of Parisian publication of Marulić’s “Evanđelistar” from 1545, whose copy can be found only in the National and University Library in Zagreb, as far as these areas are concerned. These and other books were procured more spontaneously than deliberately, so it is hard to find out their origin and the way in which they arrived here. It is most likely that they were arriving as gifts or they were procured by Franciscans, who knew their real value.

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