Supralibrosok nyomában

Abstract

Th e history of the library of the Sárospatak Reformed College is known from the first third of the 17th century. In 1671, the library owned more than 5000 documents, which were almost completely destroyed during the last three decades of 17th century. Th e 16th and 17th centuries were an important period of peregrinatio Hungarica. In the first three-quarter of the 16th century, hundreds of Hungarian Reformed students studied at the University of Wittenberg, from 1592 at the University of Heidelberg. After 1622, the academies in the Netherlands played an important role, and many students also visited England. My study focuses on Reformed pastors, whose names were hidden for centuries behind supralibros of 16th-century Renaissance or 17th-century vellum bookbindings.