Books from the Library of Péter Bod in the Collections of the “Lucian Blaga” Central University Library of Cluj-Napoca

This article is part of a series of studies dedicated to reconstructing the library of the 18th-century scholar Péter Bod. After a brief history of the old book collections of the “Lucian Blaga” Central University Library of Cluj-Napoca, the study presents seventeen works, bound in nineteen volumes, from the library of Péter Bod, kept at the institute. Additionally, there is a further volume with a possession inscription of the Reformed College of Aiud, dated July 1739, that was made by Bod himself as he was the librarian of the college between 1736 and 1739. The distribution of the volumes within the library is as follows: sixteen volumes are kept in the Heritage Book Collection, one volume in the Old Hungarian Book collection, and three volumes in the Manuscript Collection. In terms of provenance, thirteen volumes belong to the library of the Transylvanian Museum Society, one volume, purchased in 1919, to the University Library, while five works bound in six volumes, were part of the Library of the Reformed College of Orăștie. The volumes presented, with their abundance of notes, especially those of possession, shed further light on the history of Péter Bod's library and on the history of libraries, reading and culture in Transylvania in general.

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