Ediţii vestite ale Bibliei la Biblioteca Teleki-Bolyai
Famous Bibles at Teleki-Bolyai Library

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Summary/Abstract: There are arround one thousand bibles at Teleki-Bolyai Library and many of them are considered to be among the most valuable religious books of the world. There are different types, different editions and various sizes, but all of them are famous because of the letters, the ornaments and images they present or because of the printing houses that made them. We have to mention that Samuel Teleki, the founder of Teleki-Bolyai Library, tried to buy as many bibles as possible for his library and he even organized some kind of special collections of them.Most of the bibles we may fiind at Teleki-Bolyai Library impresse us not necessarily because of their aspect, but because of their history. One of them is a little sized Vulgata, a manuscript copied in the first part of the 14th century. Codicele Koncz is very appreciated and valuable, that is because of the notes written on its pages and considered to be the sixth monument of Hungarian language; it dates from the beginning of the 15th century.Some of the bibles printed at Venice by the famous familly Giunta may also be seen at this library. They were printed in the 15th-16th centuries and, at one moment, they were in the posession of the Franciscan Abbey from Călugăreni, Mureş County.Robert Estienne’ s work is represented by numerous bilingual bibles and among them the famous Biblia Hebraica (1583). In fact, all the well-known famillies from Europe are well represented at Teleki-Bolyai Library: Giunta, Stephanus, Oporinus, Froben, Plantin, Elzevir. Among them, a real masterpiece: Syrian Bible (Vienna, 1555).A special place is occupied by the poliglote bibles, such as: Poliglota din Londra, printed in 9 languages with the help of Oliver Cromwell; Poliglota din Paris (1657-1669). A unique collection is represented by the so-called „national Bibles”, written in diferent national languages: French, German, English, Polish etc. Among them, Biblia lui Luther, republished at Regensburg in 1756.We also have to mention that there is a representative collection of the most important Romanian and Hungarian Bibles. Among them: Biblia de la Viszloly (1520), in two copies; Biblia de la Oradea; Biblia de la Amsterdam, printed by Miklós Kis de Tótfalu (1685); the first Catholic Bible in Hungarian (Vienna, 1626); Noul Testament de la Bălgrad (1648); Biblia de la Bucureşti (1688); Biblia de la Blaj (1795); Noul Testament (1818), printed at Neamţ Abbey.But among the most important books we have to emphasize those that were transmitted during generations in Teleki’ s familly. The importance of these personal Bibles consists on the fact that they preserve some notes, inscriptions, written by the members of the familly.

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