51. "Propovedanie sau învățături la îngropăciunea oamenilor morți" ("Funeral ceremony")", by Samuil Micu (Klein), Blaj, 1784, collectible piece
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51. "Propovedanie sau învățături la îngropăciunea oamenilor morți" ("Funeral ceremony")", by Samuil Micu (Klein), Blaj, 1784, collectible piece
Starting price:
EUR 350
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EUR 800
20 x 17 cm
Research information
BRV. II, pos. 472
Samuil Micu, sometimes nicknamed Klein (1745-1806), one of the most prominent representatives of the School of Ardeal, was a Romanian Enlightenment thinker, encyclopaedist, Greek Catholic theologian, historian, philologist, philosopher. This work has the theme of death; the author of this book considers the subject of his writing a "great thing", "which decides all the things of this world, for all worldly things are decided by death".
The book has a title page and 71 unnumbered pages; depicts typographic decoration, vignettes and initials; black ink text with 26 full-page lines, text mirror 17 x 12.5 cm. The binding of the book comes from another book, and is of black leather-covered cardboard, restored, cover 1 decorated with a cross and vegetal elements with gilt, cover 4 decorated with "eye of all seeing" and vegetal elements with gilt, the edge shows vegetal decoration and the text "Wonders".
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