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Bibliography of Works of John Amos Comenius Printed Before 1800

Baďurová, Anežka (ed.)
Bibliography of Works of John Amos Comenius Printed Before 1800
Prague, Academy of Sciences Library, v. v. i. 2007. CD-ROM
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The CD-ROM contains reproductions of bibliographic descriptions cards with about 1035 notations on the publication of J. A. Comenius's works, as identified by heuristics and excerption of the comeniologic literature along with the catalogues of 130 domestic and 220 foreign libraries. The knowledge of specific extant copies is presently lacking in about one-fifth of the total, but the other editions yielded detailed bibliographical descriptions modelled on those prepared for the “Bibliography of Bohemian Prints in Foreign Languages from the Period of 1501-1800”. This bibliography encompasses not only those works of J. A. Comenius that were published as independent editions, but also the writings incorporated in other authors’ books, as well as the works where Comenius acted as co-author, translator, publisher or editor. Attached to these notations are lists of copies that survived to the present day from the originally published total. The section entitled “J. A. Comenius – Manuscripts“ is not an inventory of hand-written documents from his estate, but a list of notations quoted in the comeniologic literature that were verified to signify an existing manuscript rather than a printed text. These were included in the bibliography as a matter of information about the identification of the collected excerpts.

Contents

  • Copies of bibliographic descriptions
I.
J. A. Comenius – Independently published works (with a list of extant copies)

II.
Works by J. A. Comenius included in works of other authors, J. A. Comenius as co-author, editor or translator (with a list of extant copies)

III.
J. A. Comenius – Manuscripts
  • Index of printers, publishers and booksellers
  • List of biographical and bibliographical references