Written in the period between 1691 and 1702, probably closer to the former date, Teodor Corbea’s Latin–Romanian Dictionary has continuously been an inexhaustible source of research for Romanian culture ever since the late 17th century. Reclining on Albert Szenczi Molnár’s Latin–Hungarian Dictionary as a source, as claimed by the author himself, Corbea’s dictionary takes over a selected list of Latin words from Szenczi’s work, translating or reworking its definitions.
The present research is only concerned with the dictionary’s entries connected to books, reading, and the library, convinced that this is the first Romanian text containing references to this field of interest. In addition, the paper also examines the historical uses of an unusual word appearing in Corbea’s dictionary, bibliotaphus.
