Printers’ Devices in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

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.

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