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STANISLAW PARWUS THE ELDER, A 16th CENTURY BOOKBINDER FROM LVOV

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Rozycki E.

Roczniki Biblioteczne

2007

vol. 51

61-67

In the first half of the 16th century there were two master bookbinders in Lvov whose names are known to us: Jan (surname unknown) and Stanislaw Parwus the elder, a bookbinder and glassmaker, who came to Lvov from Tarnow around 1530 and adopted the city laws in 1541. He might have been educated and might have worked in Warsaw. He traded in various commodities, possibly also books, travelling for that purpose to such places as Zloczow, Poznan and Cracow. In Lvov he provided services to the city chancellery with regard to book binding and conservation, making and selling of registers and perhaps other services as well. Between 1530 and 1558 (except for a break in 1537-1545 when he was in Krakow), Parwus was undoubtedly the only bookbinder in the city service. It is also possible that Stanislaw the elder brought from Krakow a super-ex-libris stamp dated 1545, which was to be used on covers of city books, and new bookbinding tools, including rolls with 1540 and 1541 inscribed on them. By March 1558 the bookbinder was dead. After his death the workshop was run by his son, Stanislaw Parwus the younger, until around 1592. The old city archives of Lvov contain bindings of six books which could be attributed to Stanislaw Parwus. They are described in Karol Badecki's catalogue (nos. 234-238 and 905).

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STANISLAW PARWUS THE ELDER, A 16th CENTURY BOOKBINDER FROM LVOV