The 15th century book in the present collection of the library of seminary in Płock

Waldemar Graczyk

doi:10.21697/sc.2015.22.09en

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Vol. 22 (2015)

The 15th century book in the present collection of the library of seminary in Płock

Waldemar Graczyk

Saeculum Christianum. Historical Writings

Section: Rozprawy i Artykuły

https://doi.org/10.21697/sc.2015.22.09en

Abstract

The kept collection of incunabula is not uniform in terms of their origins. Although this is a small collection, in many ways it is interesting concerning both authors, areas of their knowledge, notes of origin or their binding. The library has in total twelve bibliographical positions in ten volumes. They are the work of workshops located in four urban centres: Venice, Cologne, Strasbourg and Augsburg. All of the collection of books are concentrated around four major groups: Scripture, Theology, law and philosophy. The authors of those works were the most prominent representatives of medieval science. Part of the incunabula’s cover are from the period of the book’s print (turn of fifteenth and sixteenth century), part of them are from the later period.

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Płock, library, incunabulas, books

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Graczyk, W. (2021). The 15th century book in the present collection of the library of seminary in Płock. Saeculum Christianum. Historical Writings, 22, 91–97. https://doi.org/10.21697/sc.2015.22.09en

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Waldemar Graczyk

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WNHiS UKSW, Warszawa Poland

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Fr. prof. zw. dr hab. Waldemar Graczyk, Director of the Faculty of History and Social Sciences at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, and Head of the Department of Medieval History at the same Institute. He conducts research on the history of Masovia, Polish monasticism and the book history.