Revizuiri și noi identificări din biblioteca mitropolitului Moldovei și Sucevei Iosif Naniescu
Revisions and New Identifications in the Library of Iosif Naniescu Metropolitan of Moldavia and Suceava

Summary/Abstract: Iosif Naniescu (1818-1902) was appointed Metropolitan of Moldavia and Suceava on June 10, 1875, ruling until death. He built a huge library, considered one of the largest Moldavian libraries of the 19th century. From his lifetime, understanding the need for a large national library, Iosif Naniescu donated to the Romanian Academy rare Romanian and foreign books, precious manuscripts and documents from his archive, in 1884, 1888, 1892, 1894, 1895, 1900 and 1901. However, he made the most substantial donations since 1894, the Library of the Romanian Academy enlarging its collections with over 10,000 volumes.In the patrimony of the Eco-Museum Research Institute ”Gavrilă Simion” Tulcea, 44 volumes from the personal library of Metropolitan Iosif Naniescu come from the Library of the Romanian Academy (collection from 1978-1980). All these copies of the Romanian book, printed in 1800-1876, bear the stamp with the text «The Library of Iosif Naniescu Metropolitan of Moldavia and Suceava. Given to the Romanian Academy in 1894» and entered the Academy's collections with his donations in February-March 1894, which exceeded 3,000 books. In 2011, we published 34 titles of old and modern Romanian books, varied in content. Later we identified another 10 books with the ex-libris stamp mentioned above, an unpublished list that we introduced into the scientific circuit. We mention some of these books from Iosif Naniescu's library: Nicolae Mavrocordat, Filotheou Parerga, Vienna, 1800; Antioh Cantemir, Satire şi alte poetice compuneri (Satires and other Poetic Compositions), Iasi, 1844; Ion Heliade-Rădulescu, Vocabularu de vorbe streine în limba română (Vocabulary of Foreign Words in Romanian), Bucharest, 1847; Chateaubriand, Eventurile celui din urmă Abenseragiu (The Adventures of the Last Abencérage), Bucharest, 1852.The contributions to the knowledge of Metropolitan Iosif Naniescu’s library highlight the collector, the patriot, the theologist and the great Romanian Hierarch of Moldavia.

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