Slovak Humanists active in Bohemia and Moravia as owners of books

In the early modern period, book ownership was not very common. Books came to their owners in various ways, most educated people owned only one or two books. In the present study, we deal with books owned by humanists originating from the territory of present-day Slovakia, but who lived and worked in Bohemia and Moravia for a long time. These were both book calendars and books in which their owners kept a diary (owners J. Tesák Mošovský, O. Thuri and M. Monkovicenus). The larger group consisted of owners of one or two books, mostly related to their profession, interests, or political orientation (M. Plorantius, S. Omasta, J. Bastner etc.). Although we assume that these individuals also owned a larger book collection, we do not know about their books. So far, we know of only two humanists from the studied group who owned a larger library (E. Berger and S. Rochotius).

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