Biblioteca Telekiană în perioada interbelică (1918 – 1940)
Telekian Library in the interwar period (1918 - 1940)

Teleki Library

Summary/Abstract: The present paper tries to present the documents that reffer to Aurel Filimon’s activity at Teleki Library from Târgu-Mureş and can be found in the Filimons archives.In 1937, The Ministry of Culture and Arts, according to the constitutive document from 5th of December 1913, appoints Aurel Filimon as honorific representant at the count Samuil Teleki’ Library. His mission was to examine the condition of the library and to find out if some books or manuscripts have been estranged, who has them and how can they be recovered.The paper is based on original / official documents and on the correspondence between Aurel Filimon, on one side, and count Teleki Carol, count Teleki Ádám, count Teleki Domokos and the librarian Gyulás Carol, on the other side.In his statement, Aurel Filimon analises the collections of books and manuscripts, and reffers to those that have dissapeared starting with 1830 (one of the documents used for this paper is the list drown up by Filimon and contains 96 titles). More than that, he realises a very important study concerning the history of Teleki Library and a description of its building.He also submits a lot of proposals concerning the better organization of the future inspection and his solutions are based on scientific bibliotheconomical principles.

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