More Books From The Teleki Téka Library

As I promised, I'm back to show you the rest of the book collection I saw at the end of last month, while visiting the Teleki Téka library in Targu Mures, that functions as a museum now. I've been posting about the collection stored there as there are so many great books and definitely different from what we have to day and trying to show you a piece of history as these books now are part of history.

If you've missed my previous posts and are interested in looking at the collection, as well as the wonderful building itself, you can check my previous posts here:

• Visiting The Teleki Téka (Teleki Library)
• The Exceptional Book Collection At The Teleki Library
• More Interesting Books From The Past

While I was preparing myself to write this post, I was thinking of what it means for me to see these books, or how do I see a visit to a place like this, to be more precise. I have the habit of photographing almost everything I see and find important. Once I was told I am like the Chinese (no offense intended) as Chinese tourists have the habit of photographing everything.

Let's take this museum for example. It is not a big one, I mean the building itself is big but the area where the museum is set up is just the ground floor and it is one big room. But the variety of books exposed here is quite big. So I often see people running through the exhibited collection with a speed that leaves you with your jaw dropped. I am always wondering what are they looking for or how do they see the exhibition, but more important, what will they be left with, after they leave, or what they will remember in a year, or five.

My way of learning to remember is through these photos. It helps me a lot going through the photo collection and write about any event I am attending. For example, with this book collection, I was able to look at each book I photographed at the museum, see the details, look up whatever it was needed, learn and memorize.

Since I started this series, I came to realize how much I miss these illustrations in books. Look at the one in the photo above. It is written in Latin and has these cool illustrations for people to understand what the book or chapter is about.

I have a very good visual memory and once I see a page, I am (more or less) able to remember the setup. This ability has helped me a lot in the past (and is helping me in the present), especially during my school and university studies. Most of the times I was looking at a point in the room, imagining the textbook or my notes in front of myself and was reading whatever i had to from there. It must have looked odd, but who cares. All that mattered was it helped me a lot. So maybe these illustrations helped people to remember easily in the past. Writing these posts now helps me remember these books better. So it's a win-win anyway.

I suppose these are building plans from 1806, very different from what a building plan would look like today. And what is even more interesting is that is all done by hand first.

Another interesting one, it seems to be a sample book, from 1765.

A technical book for carpenters. I love it how they were able to illustrate a scene, when there was no photographs available.

I keep saying this is an interesting one and repeating myself, but the truth is, one is more interesting than the other. With my remaining French knowledge (have forgotten most of that I knew once), this is a book about machines and inventions approved by the Royal Academy of Science, issued in Paris in 1776. If you exclude the technical drawing on the top of the page, the rest looks like a painting. Imagine having student books like this :)

As I mentioned in my previous post, here they don't have audio guides, which can be a disadvantage for some, but not for me. As the place is not so big, they have these cards with history and description, which came in handy as I could take a photo of it an show it to you.

Then there were these smaller cards, each with valuable information about different personalities from the past, like Georgius Agricola (Pawer), a Professor of Greek at the University of Zwickau. Now I can read all that I have photographed and learn from it.

These names may not be familiar to us, but many of these people were the pioneers of those times, contributing to development and thanks to them we are where we are now.

Zsuzsánna Bethlen de Iktár, the wife of Count Sámuel Teleki.

Count Sámuel Teleki de Szék, the founder of the library.

I hope you enjoyed these books and the library. For me it was like a walk back in time.

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