Rediscovered Treasures: The Library of Farkas Széll (Knihovna Kubelíkova-Széllova) Available on Google Books = Poklady znovu objevné: Farkas Széllova Knihovna (Knihovna Kubelíkova-Széllova) k dispozici na Google Books

Lengyel, Réka (2016) Rediscovered Treasures: The Library of Farkas Széll (Knihovna Kubelíkova-Széllova) Available on Google Books = Poklady znovu objevné: Farkas Széllova Knihovna (Knihovna Kubelíkova-Széllova) k dispozici na Google Books. In: Libraries V4 in the Decoy of Digital Age – Knihovny zemí V4 nástráhách digitalního věku. Moravská zemská knihovna, Brno, pp. 143-155.

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Abstract

The Eastern-Hungarian town of Debrecen hosted a social event of high importance on 25th of August 1903. Several hundred guests of aristocratic and gentry origin gathered to celebrate the wedding of the then already world-famous Czech violinist, Jan Kubelík and Marianne Csáky-Széll, who was a relative of the recently resigned Hungarian Prime Minister, Kálmán Széll. The famous event was a turn not only in the couple’s life; it bore implications on the fate of one the greatest Hungarian private libraries as well. Through this marriage, the library of Farkas Széll, who was one of the best-known Hungarian book collectors of the 19th century, was transferred to Czech lands in the 1910s or 1920s. The collection is housed in the National Library of the Czech Republic today, and as the result of a large-scale digitalization project conducted between 2007 and 2009, it is now available on the internet. Thus, the invaluable treasure is easily available for Hungarian researchers, and it serves as an extremely important and unique source for research on the cultural, literary and book history of the 16–19th centuries.

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