Bibliotheca Zriniana
Beside the numerous
works published earlier on the history of the Zrínyi Library there is a modern
comprehensive monography available, too. The book titled The History and Holdings
of the Bibliotheca Zriniana (Written and compiled by Gábor Hausner, Tibor Klaniczay,
Sándor Iván Kovács, István Monok, Géza Orlovszky. Ed. by Tibor Klaniczay. Budapest:
1991) appeared as the 4th volume of the Zrínyi Library Series.
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A Bibliotheca Zriniana története |
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Foreword |
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Predgovor |
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A concise history of the Bibliotheca Zriniana |
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Povijest Bibliothece Zriniane |
"A research team of five members, who
were to complete this work in the end, could do the work under highly favourable
conditions. The contract of cooperation between the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
and the Jugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zagreb made possible for the
members of the research team to spend long spells of time in succession in Zagreb
studying the extant volumes of the Zrínyi library. All of the highly favourable
working conditions and research opportunities were offered to the team by the
National and University Library of Zagreb. With the consent of the direction,
we could take photographs of the title pages of books and of the pages contaning
marginal notes for research purposes, in order that we may subject the texts
to close scrutiny and go into the details and scholarly minutiae of our work
after our return to Hungary. When we want to express our gratitude and thanks
to the direction and staff of the Library for the sympathy shown to colleagues
and fellow scholars, our special and heartfelt thanks should go first and foremost
to the head of the department of special collections, " (Cit. from the
Klaniczay's foreword)