Books from Lost Libraries

Descriere

Books from Lost Libraries. The Medieval Dioceses of Cenad, Oradea, and Transylvania This volume discusses extant books, book fragments, and information about lost books connected to the Catholic bishoprics of Cenad, Oradea, and Transylvania before the Reformation. It presents the work of the few identifiable scribes, illuminators and bookbinders active in these dioceses, and the circulation of manuscripts and incunabula to and from these provinces. The period under scrutiny starts in the eleventh century, when the three dioceses were established. Books are mentioned in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, a few manuscripts of disputed origin survive from the twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, but only the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries can be relatively well documented through inventories and surviving books. The fate of books is also followed during and after the Reformation, when most medieval collections were scattered or utterly destroyed. The present research complements a recent census of medieval manuscripts in Romanian libraries by adducing as evidence manuscripts of local origin, provenance or relevance kept in foreign libraries.

Despre autor

Adrian Papahagi

politician român (n. 1976)

Adrian Papahagi este un filolog și eseist român, fiul lui Marian Papahagi. La alegerile parlamentare din 2012 a candidat fără succes la un mandat de deputat din partea PDL, iar în 2014 a înființat Partidul Mișcarea Populară. Pe 17 februarie 2014 a anunțat că se retrage temporar din politică. În data de 1 martie 2015, a lansat împreună cu europarlamentarul Monica Macovei un nou partid politic numit M10.