Peuce (Nov 2014)

Cărţi din biblioteca familiei Cantacuzino în fondurile muzeului tulcean

  • Lăcrămioara MANEA

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12
pp. 341 – 352

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The aim of this article is to introduce in the scientific circuit two volumes of rare foreign books, printed in the 17th and 18th centuries, identified in the collections of ”Gavrilă Simion” Eco-Museum Research Institute of Tulcea, which belonged to the Romanian poet and ambassador Scarlat Cantacuzino (1874-1949), also known by his pen name Charles-Adolphe Cantacuzène. He is also known as a great collector of old books as his Cantacuzino forefathers. His first book (Ph. Desportes, ”Les Oeuvres”, Lyon, 1606), along with the owner’s signature carries an ex-libris seal with one of the Cantacuzino Family emblem. The second book (M. de Bachaumont, ”Mémoires secrets pour servir a l'histoire de la République des lettres en France, depuis 1762 jusqu'a nos jours”, tome 7, A Londres, 1777) has an ex-libris affixed on both covers, an ex-libris stamp and Charles-Adolphe Cantacuzène’s signature. We may therefore say that these books are part of the great collections of the Cantacuzino royal or princely rank generations, as well as of our national cultural heritage collections.

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