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

• Authors: Klára Andresová

Title variants

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Frontispieces and Engraved Title Pages of Military Handbooks from the First Half of the 17th Century in the Collections of the Library of the Military History Institute Prague

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

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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.

Keywords

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frontispieces; title pages; military handbooks; military history; iconography; 17th century; Library of the Military History Institute Prague

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Library of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
• Journal: Knihy a dějiny (Books and history)
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 147-164
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Klára Andresová

• Knihovna AV ČR, v.v.i., Národní 1009/3, 115 22 Praha 1, Czech Republic