TIPĂRITURI ALBAIULIENE ÎNTR-O COLECȚIE PARTICULARĂ (SECOLELE XVII-XVIII)
Alba Iulia Prints in a Private Collection (17th-18th Centuries)

Summary/Abstract: Alba Iulia occupies an important place in the history of Romanian printing. The old capital of the Principality of Transylvania was the fifth active printing centre in the present Romanian area, after Târgovişte (1508), Sibiu (1525), Braşov (1539) and Cluj (1550). The books printed in Alba Iulia between the second half of the 16th century and the end of the 18th century served the confessional needs of the Reformed, Orthodox, Greek Catholics, Roman Catholics, as well as the students of the Academic College and the administration of the Principality. With few exceptions, Alba Iulia prints – regardless of the period of their publication – are rare, their vast majority being found in the collections of museums and libraries. There are, however, cases of copies in private collections. Such a case is the subject of this article, a private collection in which three copies of Alba Iulia prints have been identified, namely Noul Testament (the New Testament) (Bălgrad, 1648), Antal Szeredai, Series antiquorum et recentiorum episcoporum Transilvaniae (Alba Carolina, 1790) and Antal Szeredai, Collectio continens tabulas vetustorum (Alba Carolina, 1791), with the mention that the last two works are colligated.

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