Thanks to the hard work of a group of interns (UBB students David Mândruț, Dinuța Cloșca, Flavia Bradin, Cristina Năstăsie), CODEX has contributed 2000 titles of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century printed books from the Academy Library in Cluj to the Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC). This is work in progress, as only letters A-K have been processed so far.
“The Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC), developed at and hosted by the University of St Andrews, is a collective catalogue of all the books published in Europe and its overseas colonies between the invention of printing and 1700. It is a free to access resource, that can be used anywhere in the world.
It currently contains bibliographical descriptions of more than 1.6 million editions published between 1450 and 1700, located in almost 7 million surviving copies in close to 10,000 libraries, archives and museums throughout the world.” (https://www.ustc.ac.uk/about)
This contribution is part of a collaboration between CODEX and USTC, led by Professor Andrew Pettegree and Dr Arthur der Weduwen.
By contributing to USTC, we were able to discover how rare some of the books in the collections of Cluj are. For example, the only known copy of Cicero’s Pro Milone printed by Johann Singriener in Vienna in 1522 has been uncovered at the Academy Library in Cluj ( https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/674509).
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