51. "Propovedanie sau învățături la îngropăciunea oamenilor morți" ("Funeral ceremony")", by Samuil Micu (Klein), Blaj, 1784, collectible piece

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".

Dimensions

width 17 cm, height 20 cm

Research information

BRV. II, pos. 472

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