Olmütz Monastic Libraries

Frontispiece of Dictionarium Historicum . . . Sacrae Scripturae (Strassburg: 1759)

This collection consists of some 460 volumes, primarily eighteenth-century imprints relating to canon law, ethics, heresy, church history, and other ecclesiastical subjects. The volumes once belonged to monasteries in the area of Olmütz in the present day Czech Republic.

Selected titles include:

• Dictionarium Historicum . . . Sacrae Scripturae (Strassburg: 1759) [the frontispiece of which is pictured at left]
• De Controversiis Christianae . . . by Bellarmin (Cologne: 1619)
• Summa Theologica by Aquinas (Lyons: 1740)
• Les Loix Civiles . . . by Domat (Paris: 1735)
• Philosophica Universa Peripatetica . . . (Olmütz: 1732)
• Catena Aurea . . . by de Roxas (Lyons: 1651)
• Breviarii Moralis Carmelitari . . . (Lisbon: 1735)