TY - JOUR
TI - Jan Januszowski’s Letters to Marcin Kromer and Tomasz Płaza on Printing Missale Varmiense (1587) in the Lazarus Printing House
AU - Kiliańczyk-Zięba, Justyna
AU - Gara, Katarzyna
TI - Jan Januszowski’s Letters to Marcin Kromer and Tomasz Płaza on Printing Missale Varmiense (1587) in the Lazarus Printing House
AB - 
	Officina Lazari was one of the most prominent printing houses in the 16th-century Cracow. In 1587, it pressed Missale Varmiense, the only post-Tridentine missal produced in early modern Poland-Lithuania. Missale was commissioned by the bishop of Warmia, Marcin Kromer, who was persuaded to work with the Cracow printer after a recommendation from Tomasz Płaza, his long-time assistant. The history of this publishing venture—a multifaceted, dynamic process, spread over a period of about five years—can be reconstructed thanks to surviving archival documents, inter alia letters that Januszowski-the printer sent to bishop Kromer and his factotum Płaza. Composed respectively in 1585 and 1586, these letters give detailed insight into how the production of Missale Varmiense was planned and organised, constituting the kind of evidence very rare for early printed books produced in Poland-Lithuania. The earlier letter is an official Latin supplication sent by the printer to the prelate. The other letter, addressed to the bishop’s assistant, who was also the manager of the publishing process is practically oriented and personal, written at the time when the work of Januszowski and his sponsors was put to a halt by the Cracow cathedral chapter in the spring of 1586.
VL - 2018
IS - Volume 20, Issue 3 (48) 2018
PY - 2018
SN - 2082-0984
C1 - 2084-3844
SP - 383
EP - 401
DO - 10.4467/20843844TE.18.018.10087
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/terminus/article/listy-jana-januszowskiego-do-marcina-kromera-i-tomasza-plazy-dotyczace-produkcji-missale-varmiense-1587-w-drukarni-lazarzowej
KW - early modern book culture
KW - book history
KW - printed book production
KW - post-Tridentine missal
KW - Krakow/Cracow printing