Kasper Straube
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Kasper Straube (also Kaspar[1][2] or Caspar,[3] also known as The Printer of the Turrecrematas) was a German 15th-century printer from Bavaria.
He was active in
Latin almanac Calendarium cracoviense (Cracovian Calendar) of 1473[4] is regarded as the first work printed in Poland.[5]
Other surviving printed works by Straube include:
- Juan de Torquemada: Explanatio in Psalterium
- Franciscus de Platea: Opus restitutionum usurarum et excommunicationum
- Augustine of Hippo: Opuscula (de doctrina christiana, de praedestinatione sanctorum)
See also
- History of printing in Poland
- Incunable
- Johannes Gutenberg
- Movable type
- Printing
- Global spread of the printing press
- Florian Ungler
References
- ISBN 978-3-515-07792-7 [1]
- ^
Francis W. Carter: Trade and urban development in Poland: an economic geography of Cracow, from its origins to 1795, Cambridge University Press, 1994 ISBN 978-0-521-41239-1 [2]
- ISBN 978-3-515-07860-3 [3]
- ^ Norman Davies, God's Playground, vol.1, chapter 5
- ^ Wieslaw Wydra, "Die ersten in polnischer Sprache gedruckten Texte, 1475-1520", Gutenberg-Jahrbuch, Vol. 62 (1987), pp.88-94 (88)
External links
- Kasper Straube (in Polish)
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