Early Modern Czech and Slovak Territories Mirrored in the Book Collection
of Viennese Cardinal Migazzi

Abstract:

This research identifies 16th-17th century printings that entered the initial fund of the library of bishop of Transylvania, Batthyany Ignac, following purchase of own library of Viennese Cardinal Christoph Migazzi. Before being sold, these were introduced in a catalogue that is preserved in the fund of Batthyaneum Library. For the moment, we only dealt with the books’ printing place, focusing on the Czech and Slovak area. We introduced works that subsume under proposed research in the final Annex.

Keywords:

cardinal Migazzi; library; Czech and Slovak area; printings; Batthyány Ignác; Dániel Imre; catalogue