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W cieniu symbolicznego drzewa. O sygnecie drukarskim Macieja Wirzbięty

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Kiliańczyk-Zięba J.

Biuletyn Historii Sztuki

2010

vol. 72

issue 1-2

93-112

Maciej Wirzbięta was a Calvinistic printer active in Cracow in the years 1555-1605. Throughout the period his publishing house operated, Wirzbięta consistently marked his books with a device representing a willow-tree. This was an obvious reference to the printer’s surname (the Polish word wierzba meaning willow-tree), and it provides an example from Poland of the then widely practiced application of puns among printers. It may, therefore, appear that the meaning of Maciej Wirzbięta’s device can be deciphered in a straightforward manner without seeking references to the Bible, Greek or Roman heritage, mediaeval compendia, emblem books or any of the many other sources of knowledge from which publishers frequently drew inspiration to create their devices. The device under discussion does, however, refer to the symbolic language of the Renaissance. It is possible to find Mediaeval illuminations and 16th-century engravings whose composition and content invoke associations with the woodcuts from Wirzbięta’s press.

Wykorzystanie symboliki tetragramu w „O ślachetności a zacności płci niewieściej” (1575) Macieja Wirzbięty

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Wojtkowska-Maksymik M.

Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo

2016

issue 6(9)

283-296

The subject of this article is the comparative analysis of short excerpts of two works: De nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus declamatio (Antwerp, 1529) by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim and the Polish translation of this work, i.e. O ślachetności a zacności płci niewieściej (Cracow, 1575) by Maciej Wirzbięta. The author concentrates on the question of meaning of the first parents names, Adam and Eve, which was addressed by both writers in order to prove the validity of the thesis on the superiority of women over men and reveals the resources used in the discourse: from the works of the Fathers and Doctors of the Church, (e.g. St. Jerome, Psuedo-Cyprian) to the works of philosophers and humanists at the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries (e.g. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Johannes Reuchlin, Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples) fascinated with Jewish Kabbalah and gematria and the related theory of the names of God and the symbolism of tetragrammaton (JHWH).

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W cieniu symbolicznego drzewa. O sygnecie drukarskim Macieja Wirzbięty

Wykorzystanie symboliki tetragramu w „O ślachetności a zacności płci niewieściej” (1575) Macieja Wirzbięty