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THE SOURCES OF MODERN BOOK HISTORIOGRAPHY: KAZIMIERZ PIEKARSKI AND HIS BOOK 'THE BOOK IN THE 15TH AND 16TH CENTURY POLAND' (KSIAZKA W POLSCE XV I XVI WIEKU) (Polish title - below)

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Migon K.

Roczniki Biblioteczne

2009

vol. 53

23-37

(Title in Polish - 'U zródel wspólczesnej historiografii ksiazki: Kazimierz Piekarski i jego 'Ksiazka w Polsce XV i XVI wieku'). Book history as a research specialty began to develop in Europe at least as early as the 17th century, but it was not until the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries that it gradually acquired, and only in some countries, the status of a relatively autonomous discipline. The problems it tackled, the concepts and methods it used came mainly from the history of printing, bibliography and history of literature. An important role in the development of book historiography in Poland was played by Kazimierz Piekarski with his work on bibliography, cataloguing and book studies, and, especially, his 1930 programme publication 'Books in 15th and 16th century Poland' (published in 1932). Piekarski deserves the credit for establishing a precise scope of printed book studies and for drawing attention to the printer and his production as a research subject specific to book history. In addition, a full study of early printed books should include the issue of circulation (intermediaries) and consumption of books. In many cases Kazimierz Piekarski's proposals were ahead of foreign concepts and programmes of research into the history of books, research that today is dominated - globally - by two schools: French and Anglo-American. Piekarski's work, virtually unknown outside Poland, should be given its deservedly important place in international historiography.

THE ROLE OF PORTRAITS IN STANISLAW SARNICKI'S STATUTES (1594). (Rola przedstawien portretowych w Statutach Stanislawa Sarnickiego, 1594)

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Kwiatkowska-Frejlich L.

Roczniki Biblioteczne

2006

vol. 50

93-123

Stanislaw Sarnicki's work 'Statuta i metrika przywilejow koronnych...' (Statutes and records of crown privileges, Cracow 1594) contains a very interesting series of graphic portraits. These portraits are scattered all over the book and are linked to texts devoted to the duties of holders of various offices in Poland. They portray specific individuals. The present author has identified them and has attempted to answer the question why those officials and those individuals from among a great number of people holding power in the 16th century Poland were chosen to be presented in the work. All those portrayed were connected with Jan Zamoyski, grand crown hetman (commander-in-chief) and chancellor at the time, who pursued a very consistent policy aimed at restricting the king's power. Sarnicki's book contains faithful portraits of well-known people. Thus those people were identified with the power they held and were presented as those who in a way personally oversaw the enforcement of the law. The connections with Zamoyski testified to the fact that he was the man who was the guardian of the public order. Zamoyski was a protector of both the author, Stanislaw Sarnicki, and the publisher, Jan Januszowski; he could, therefore, have influenced the book's content. Zamoyski wanted his propaganda message to reach specific groups of the Polish society. He was able to achieve this goal thanks to this high-circulation publication; the fact that it was in the form of a book increased its stature and significance.

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1 Kwiatkowska-Frejlich L.

1 Migon K.

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THE SOURCES OF MODERN BOOK HISTORIOGRAPHY: KAZIMIERZ PIEKARSKI AND HIS BOOK 'THE BOOK IN THE 15TH AND 16TH CENTURY POLAND' (KSIAZKA W POLSCE XV I XVI WIEKU) (Polish title - below)

THE ROLE OF PORTRAITS IN STANISLAW SARNICKI'S STATUTES (1594). (Rola przedstawien portretowych w Statutach Stanislawa Sarnickiego, 1594)