Carte de patrimoniu unicat ?
A Unique Patrimonial Book?

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Summary/Abstract: Professor Onisifor Ghibu is well-known not only because of his teachingactivity, but also for being one of the most important Romanian scholars andbook lovers. His personal library is today considered as an authentic archive ofRomanian education of the 18th-20th centuries, particularly of Transylvanianone. Many of his books are, in our days, part of Romanian cultural patrimony.One of these books - Cartea trebuincioasă pentru dascăli –Nothwendiges Handbuch für Schulmeister… - caused a lot of litigiousmatters; that is because in Bibliografia Românească Veche we may find thebibliographical description of the book mentioned above as being a Romanian-German edition, published in Vienna in 1785. But there is also mentionedanother edition of the book, which has the same characterisrics, except thetitle: De lipsă cărtice. The second edition could not be found in BibliotecaAcademiei Române, although the description from BibliografiaRomânească Veche mentioned that it was there. Therefore, a question cameto light: did the copy of the second edition really exist?We have four arguments in order to prouve this; a) the place we mayfind it is mentioned in Bibliografia Românească Veche; b) the OnisiforGhibu’ s note on the first edition that mentions the existence of a secondedition, in the same year; c) there are specific elements of the second edition –cost, pagination – which can not be found at the first edition; d) Iuliu Vuia’ snotes in Şcoalele româneşti bănăţene în sec. XVIII – Studiu istoricreferring to the second edition are different from Bibliografia RomâneascăVeche’ s description.The situation has been clarified in 1978 when Onisifor Ghibu’ s son,Octavian, offered De lipsă cărtice to Biblioteca Centrală Pedagogică fromBucureşti.The value of the book also consists in Sava Popovici’ s signature, thefirst owner and in the notes of Onisifor Ghibu.

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