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Frontispisy a ryté titulní listy vojenských příruček první poloviny 17. století ve fondu Knihovny Vojenského historického ústavu v Praze

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Andresová K.
Knihy a dějiny (Books and history)
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2016
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vol. 23
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issue 1-2
147-164
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This article focuses on military handbooks from the first half of the 17th century placed in the collections of the Military History Institute Prague. In the introduction, it summarises the history and structure of the collection of early printed books in the library under study. After that, it characterises the set of the handbooks i.a. in terms of their topic, the language and the publisher’s provenance, as well as format. Its main aim is to analyse the frontispieces and engraved title pages of these publications with regard to the iconographic motifs that are usually depicted on them. The final part of the work outlines the possibilities of using the frontispieces and engraved title pages of the studied publications as iconographic sources in historiography and it places the title illustrations of the military handbooks in a wider context.
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Typologie barokních frontispisů v bohemikálních tiscích z let 1618–1765

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Beránková H.
Knihy a dějiny (Books and history)
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2016
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vol. 23
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issue 1-2
87-126
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The article deals with the typology of Baroque frontispieces in printed books published in Bohemian and Moravian printing houses in 1618–1765, which is viewed in terms of the function of the frontispieces in printing. The paper contains a detailed analysis of the main thematic variants of frontispieces. The thematic variants are analysed with respect to the content and genre of the work concerned with the aim to determine the main marketing strategies of Bohemian and Moravian printers, publishers or booksellers in the visual promotion of their products.
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