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Author:   Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   117
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9789004679597

ISBN 10:   9004679596
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   04 April 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Preface Illustrations Abbreviations  Books Cited  Libraries and Museums Introduction: Existing Research  1 Source Base  2 Typology, Terminology, and Functions of Woodcuts  3 Research Subject, Objectives, and Methodology  4 Geographic Scope  5 Chronological Scope  6 Structure of the Work  Acknowledgementsl 1 Heraldic Traditions  1 The First Polish Device: a Model of Heraldic Exposition  2 The Municipal Coat of Arms and the Merchant’s Mark as Used by Printers  3 Municipal Heraldry and State Symbols  4 Devices Featuring Merchants’ Marks  5 Coats of Arms in the Function of Printers’ Devices  6 Aleksander Aujezdecki (Augezdecky) 2 Sources from Antiquity and the Emblematic Filter  1 Terminus  2 Alciato and the Emblematic Taste of the Age  3 In Praise of Silence  4 Concord  5 The Device of the Zamojski Academy Printing House  6 Ancient Tale and Emblematic Structure  7 Printer’s Device or Not? 3 Within the Christian Community  1 Lutheran Printers in Königsberg: Hans Weinreich, Hans Lufft, Hans Daubmann, and Georg Osterberger  2 Maciej Wirzbięta  3 Stanisław Murmelius  4 The Polish Brethren: Aleksy Rodecki and Sebastian Sternacki  5 The Sign of the Pelican  6 IHS in Vilnius: Jesuit Symbol or Printer’s Device? 4 Devices Used by the Drukarnia Łazarzowa  1 Łazarz Andrysowic – Wietor’s Successor  2 Jan Januszowski (Łazarzowic)  3 The Devices: the Obelisk (Astronomy, Prisca Theologia, and the Recycling of an Erudite Tradition) 5 Books in Jewish Languages  1 The Halicz Brothers and the Prostic family  2 Lublin 6 Where, When, How Often: the Printer’s Device within the Structure of the Book Conclusions Bibliography Index

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“One of the most influential early modern book history series currently available.” Alexander S. Wilkinson, University College Dublin. In: SHARP News, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Autumn 2014), p. 10. “One of the most outstanding series in the field of European book history.” Mart van Duijn, Leiden University Libraries. In: Quaerendo, Vol. 44, No. 3 (2014).

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Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba, Ph.D (2005, the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland), is professor at that university. She has published on the history of literature, book history, emblematics, and the history of ideas, and has edited various sixteenth-century texts.

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