The paper aims to promote a neglected, and consequently little‑known, writer of the period of the Polish Enlightenment – Wincenty Ignacy Marewicz (1775–1822), the author of, among others, poems, writings in verse and prose, a collection of sayings, as well as comedies, dramas and an opera. The publication discusses some of the elements of the publishing framework (including dedications, prefaces, epigraphs, and lists of works already published) which the writer used in his dramatic works and which include important information about him, his work and life. The paper is a kind of reconnaissance to pave the way for further research on the above‑mentioned subject.
The paper aims to promote a neglected, and consequently little‑known, writer of the period of the Polish Enlightenment – Wincenty Ignacy Marewicz (1775–1822), the author of, among others, poems, writings in verse and prose, a collection of sayings, as well as comedies, dramas and an opera. The publication discusses some of the elements of the publishing framework (including dedications, prefaces, epigraphs, and lists of works already published) which the writer used in his dramatic works and which include important information about him, his work and life. The paper is a kind of reconnaissance to pave the way for further research on the above‑mentioned subject.
The article is an analysis of the function of elements of front matter and end matter in the collection of sixteen plays by Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa. The collection was published shortly after the death of the author, thanks to the efforts of her assistant, Jakub Fryczyński, who actively supported the Princess at Nesvizh in her theatrical undertakings for many years. Published in 1754 and dedicated to the aristocrat’s daughters, the tome was the second consecutive initiative aiming at sharing Radziwiłłowa’s literary work with a wider audience. The first attempt was undertaken still in the author’s lifetime, and abandoned for reasons unknown to us today. An analysis of the dedication and foreword for the reader allows one to characterise the role of these elements in a publishing undertaking which was unusual for its time, depicting a member of a great aristocratic family not as a wife, mother, or respected matron, but as a learned woman, a bibliophile and, most of all, a writer.
The source of discussion in the article are lists of errors, included in publications from the second half of the eighteenth century, detailing mistakes identified in print and the corrections, and addressed to the future readers of these statements, written by printers, publishers, and authors. These two interconnected elements are characterised in the article as contributing to the front matter and end matter of literary and scholarly works, as well as to the structure of a book, and as an important symptom of entering works into circulation. After a discussion of the formal traits of the errata in books of the bygone era, the types and frequency of printing mistakes collected in the errata are explored, in conjunction with an attempt at determining the likely consequences of those errors, which were not included, on the reading of the texts. In the next part of the article, the focus is on the statements made to the readers in relation to the printing errors. The article also explores the source material as one of the elements of publishing practice, changing with time and subject to modernisation, which should also be acknowledged in contemporary editions of historical works.
Album artwork research tends to focus on aspects related to usability and graphics, while frequently ignoring other elements of cover art – the paraphernalia of phonograms represented by functionally diversified texts. Their importance has been recognised with the Grammy Award for Best Album Notes, awarded for excellent liner (sleeve) notes in phonographic publications. This article focuses on to the diverse character of the onymic elements in the sleeve notes on Fragile, the fourth studio album by Yes. Specifically, the songs are divided into those representing the band as a whole and its individual members separately. Proper names emerge in this example as a categorically diverse group, with each of them demanding an individual research approach considering a broad context and at times even extending beyond the album’s multi-code communication. Ideonyms of the works constitute a particular group. Frequently they feature several variants, which hinders their delimitation. Determining their proper form is important as it is the starting point for further analysis.
At the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries, a reformation of monastics life was undertaken by the Benedictines from Chelmno. It was legitimised by the modified edition of Benedictine monastic rules published inLublin in 1635.One of the elements of the editorial frame of the printed text is a letter toPolishChurchleaders by the Apostolic Nuncio toPolandand the translation of that letter into Polish. Despite the identical structure of both texts, there are some differences in their typographical structure. The differences include using different type of print in composition, different location of the text on page or highlighting particular words by majuscules or romans. The abovementioned differences in typographical technique do not breach, however, the approximate graphic structuralization of the texts in both Polish and Latin. The function of this technique is universal, namely to deliminate and expose the text and its sequences visually.
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Na przełomie XVI i XVII wieku benedyktynki z klasztoru w Chełmnie przeprowadziły reformę życia zakonnego usankcjonowaną prawnie w zmodyfikowanej wersji reguły św. Benedykta, którą po raz wtóry wydano w Lublinie w 1635 roku.Jednym z elementów ramy wydawniczej drukowanego tekstu reguły jest łacińskojęzyczny list nuncjusza apostolskiego w Polsce do hierarchów Kościoła w Polsce oraz jego tłumaczenie na język polski. Pomimo identycznej struktury obu listów istnieją pewne różnice w ich ukształtowaniu typograficznym. Polegają one np. na użyciu do składu innego rodzaju pisma drukowanego, odmiennym rozłożeniu tekstu na karcie książki czy wyróżnianiu majuskułami lub antykwą różnych wyrazów tekstowych. Wskazane odrębności w technice typograficznej nie naruszają jednakże zasadniczo zbliżonej strukturalizacji graficznej tekstów zarówno w języku łacińskim, jak i polskim. Funkcja tej techniki ma w istocie charakter uniwersalny, gdyż na płaszczyźnie wizualnej delimituje tekst i eksponuje jego sekwencje.
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