Digital science in context of book culture history research: Polonica of the 16th-18th centuries in selected databases of written cultural heritage concerning the Kingdom of Hungary

Abstract

The authors summarise the main databases of written cultural heritage, used for research of book culture history in Slovakia, Czech Republic and Hungary, particularly databases including data for research of Polish books of the 16th-18th centuries. Potential of digital science and its sources for traditional book culture history research is emphasised. Authors analyse all types of Polonica in certain digitalised collections of various historical libraries in the Kingdom of Hungary from the 16th to the 18th centuries. Mutual cultural relationship of Slovakia and Poland in book culture history is also highlighted, especially for building of aristocratic and bourgeois libraries.