CONRAD GESNER (1516-1565) ȘI „BIBLIOTHECA UNIVERSALIS” – PRIMA EDIȚIE A PRIMEI BIBLIOGRAFII UNIVERSALE
CONRAD GESNER (1516-1565) AND ‘BIBLIOTHECA UNIVERSALIS’ – THE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST UNIVERSAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

Summary/Abstract: Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and developed knowledge. The first edition of the first universal bibliography, called „Bibliotheca universalis” signed by the Swiss scholar Conrad Gesner, describes about twelve thousand works by some three thousand authors. It is arranged by first names (with an excellent index of family and adopted names), giving biographies, incipits of texts, details of editions, critical notes on contents, on manuscripts, projected and unfinished works, etc., its only restriction being that everything not in Greek, Latin or Hebrew is excluded. It was a truly epochal achievement, on which all subsequent bibliographers have to some extent relied, directly or indirectly.

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