FONDUL DE CARTE VECHE ȘI RARĂ DE LA ARHIVELE NAȚIONALE DIN IAȘI
THE OLD AND RARE BOOKS FROM THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF IASSY

Author(s): Arcadie Bodale, Suzana Iuliana Bodale
Subject(s): Museology & Heritage Studies, Archiving, Preservation, Local History / Microhistory
Published by: Editura Eikon
Keywords: theological books; history; geography; jurisprudence; grammar; school;
Summary/Abstract: It is well known that the documents of the Principality of Moldova - starting with the reign of Roman I until the Union of Moldova with Wallachia - and those of Iassy County are kept at the National Archives of Iassy. However, only few people know that, since the creation of this institution, due to the donations of Gheorghe Asachi, the first director of the institution, the oldest public library of Moldova was born. Here, is preserved an interesting collection of old and rare books, consisting of nearly 300 volumes, printed in Romanian (with the Cyrillic alphabet), Latin, Italian, Greek, French, and Hebrew. From a thematic point of view, these volumes are mainly cult and theological books, but there are some of them of history, geography, jurisprudence, grammar or school. The oldest volume is the second edition of Fabio Frezza ‚s book, Massime, regole et precetti di stato et di guerra, published in Naples in 1616.

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