The Incunabula of the Dominicans from Bistrița at the Central Piarist Library in Budapest

The article presents the history of a series of incunabula belonging until the Reformation to the Dominican convent of the Holy Cross in Bistrița, Transylvania. The books were discovered in 1776 by the Piarists, who had been active in Bistrița since 1717. In 1878, the books were transferred to the Central Piarist Library in Budapest. To establish the books’ history, the present research has benefited from two recent resources: the on-line catalogue of the Central Piarist Library, and the hitherto unused Historia Bistriciensis Domus Scholarum Piarum ab anno MDCCXVII, discovered in 2009.

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