Teleki Library

Teleki-Bolyai Library and Bibliotheca Telekiana, is a historic public library and contemporary museum in Targu-Mure?, Romania. One of the richest Transylvanian collections of cultural artefacts, it became based by using the Hungarian Count Samuel Teleki in 1802, on the time when Transylvania was a part of the Habsburg Monarchy, and has been open to the studying public ever considering the fact that. It turned into the various first institutions of its kind in the Kingdom of Hungary. It homes over 2 hundred,000 volumes, of which many are rarities, constituting a comprehensive scientific database. The e book collection is split into several smaller libraries, of which the 2 major donations are the authentic 40,000-quantity Teleki Library and the eighty,000-volume Bolyai Library; the relaxation, grouped as the Miscellaneous Collection, is made of several non-public libraries, volumes formerly held with the aid of spiritual schools and those of a Franciscan

monastery. Overall, the library constitutes a collection of most conventional sorts of Transylvanian e-book. Its founder, Count Samuel Teleki de Szék 1739–1822 became one of the maximum learned e-book creditors of the time. From the very starting, he supposed his series as a public library, and evolved it throughout his lifestyles; he remained a committed and lively bibliophile regardless of his time-ingesting administrative career — he was Chancellor of Transylvania from 1791 till his loss of life — building on his members of the family with all crucial European printing and publishing houses, and shopping all vital works posted among the invention of the movable kind and the early nineteenth century.