The Old Library Stock of the Kaplony Franciscan Monastery. Catalogue
Edited by Árpád Magyar, Edina Zvara
NSZL, Budapest, 2009., 560 pages
[Old Books of Hungarian Libraries in the Carpathian Basin, 4. Series edited by István Monok]
ISBN 978 963 200 568 3
This is the fourth volume of the Old Books of Hungarian Libraries in the Carpathian Basin series. Researchers and everyone interested can now browse the catalogue of the Kaplony Franciscan monastery library, carefully elaborated by the editors.
The history of the foundation and further events of the Kaplony Franciscan monastery and the exploration of the operation and growth of its library offers proper context for the detailed material of the catalogue that contains the volumes printed before 1850 and the index of manuscripts and unidentified prints in the library. The work is completed by the indexes of related names, printing press locations, typographers, publishers and possessors.
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