Colloquia Maruliana ..., Vol. 10 , 2001.
Original scientific paper
Marko Marulić in the Germanophone Part of Europe - Switzerland
Franz Leschinkohl
Abstract
Through many years of searching for books by Marko Marulić in libraries throughout Europe it has been discovered that the Germanophone area (Germany, Austria and the German language part of Switzerland) was not only the most fertile ground for his books, but is still so today, as witnessed to by the 807 Marulić worksthat I have managed to register in this region (Germany 515, Austria 179, Switzerland 113). As well as these 807 books, which bear witness to the very considerable dissemination of Marulić’s books in the German-speaking area, I also managed, outside this area, all round Europe, and even in America, to discoversome 200 more of his books, and thus save over a thousand books from oblivionand bring them back under the wing of Marulology. In the search for books of Marko Marulić round Switzerland there was no lack of surprises, for which the arrival of a packet from the National Library in Berne with a photocopy of the catalogue page of the book Marulius M. Maruli M. S. J, De religiose pieque vivendi institutione per exempla ex V. et N. Testam. Antv. 1573 was very largely responsible. This was found in the library of the canton of Obwalden in Sarnenand is a book that was so far unknown, although Mirko Tomasović does mention it on p. 127 of his book Marko Marulić Marul. I found out surprising facts about unknown Marulić books from the encyclopaedic work Trésor de livres rare et précieux, published in 1863 by the Librairie H. Georg of Geneva in concert with publishers in Paris, London and Dresden. In Vol. 4 on p. 435 we read Mar. Spalat. dictorum factorumque memorabilium LL. VI. Antv. 1540. in-8o, a book that was printed before the one by Fowler in 1577. There are two more books of Marulićt hat are unknown to us, Parabolae L. Basil. 1517. in-8o and Evangelistarium. Ven. in aedibus Jac. Leuci 1518. in-4o. As a curiosity, the librarian of the cantonal libraryof Vadian, St. Gallen, reports that their Evangelistiary, printed in Basle in 1519, is bound up with the book De causa Boemica, by Jan Hus (1370-1415), excommunicated in 1410, and in 1414, during an effort to defend himself at the Council of Constance, arrested and burnt at the stake as a heretic.
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Publication date:
22.4.2001.
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