Ex Bibliotheca Fidalkiana. Biblie w zbiorach Johanna Fidalkego

• Authors: Maria Otto-Michalska

Title variants

EN

Ex Bibliotheca Fidalkiana. Bibles in Johann Fidalke’s collections

Abstracts

EN

Johann Fidalke (1703–1763), a Gdansk pastor and a gymnasium teacher, gathered a substantial collection of books comprising more than 10,000 volumes. After his death, the books were sold during four auctions, and the valuable collection was dispersed. However, owing to an auction catalogue kept in the collections of the Gdansk PAS Library, we may recreate the content of the Gdansk pastor’s collection. Its most considerable part was made up of different editions of the Holy Bible – with a total of 95 editions in 156 volumes. The article provides a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the said Bibles, focusing on the presentation of their languages as well as the places and times of their publication, and their bindings. The article is accompanied by an index, in which the different editions of the Bible in Fidalke’s collection are identified and catalogued in line with the contemporary standards, on the basis of the rudimentary information given in the auction catalogue.

Keywords

PL

Biblie; bibliofilstwo; Johann Fidalke (1703–1763); katalogi aukcyjne; Gdańsk – księgozbiory; proweniencje

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Libri Gedanenses
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 35
• Pages: 169-189

Dates

published

2018

Contributors

author

Maria Otto-Michalska

• PAN Biblioteka Gdańska, Dział Zbiorów Specjalnych, Pracownia Starych Druków

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

55787176