A NEWLY DISCOVERED INCUNABULUM AT THE LIBRARY OF THE ROMANIAN ACADEMY IN CLUJ
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https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2026.2.12Keywords:
Romanian Academy Library in Cluj, incunabulum, Guillelmus Peraldus, friar Andreas de Futhak, Dominican convent in TimișoaraAbstract
A Newly Discovered Incunabulum at the Library of the Romanian Academy in Cluj. Research in the collection of the Academy Library of Cluj lead to the discovery of a previously uncatalogued incunabulum, initially mistaken for a sixteenth-century work. The volume contains an edition of William Peyraut’s (Guillelmus Peraldus) Summa de virtutibus et vitiis, printed on the 20th of December 1497 in Venice by Paganinus de Paganinis. The paper examines not only the incunabulum, but also the binding, which consists of a partial leaf from a fifteenth-century Latin missal, and looks into the history of its owners, from an early sixteenth-century Dominican library in Timișoara to the library of a Catholic Gymnasium in Cluj.
Article history: Received 27 April 2026; Revised 26 May 2026; Accepted 07 June 2026; Available online 30 June 2026; Available print 30 June 2026.
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