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Watermarks in the work of the Printer of the Prague Bible
Kafka, Andrej ; Voit, Petr (advisor) ; Boldan, Kamil (referee)
The aim of this thesis was a detailed research of watermarks in the work of the Printer of the Prague Bible. The watermarks should serve as a contribution to a future catalogue of watermarks in Bohemian prints. The source of the watermarks are folio formats of titles printed by the Printer of the Prague Bible, which are in the possession of the National Library in Prague. The theoretical part of the thesis outlines the history of European papermaking and basic information about the reasons for the introduction of watermarks into papermaking. It also briefly introduces filigranology as a discipline and its state in the Czech Republic, and gives a number of examples of practical applications of filigranology. It also describes the methods of visualising watermarks, the rules for recording them and the reasons that led to the selection of the sample for the survey. The watermarks were recorded using the tracing paper method. While this method did not allow us to clearly identify absolutely all close variants, it served well to identify sheets suitable for further work with a more precise visualization method. As part of the survey, at least two copies of each title were compared and the distribution of watermarks in each copy was graphically represented in summary tables. The relatively low diversity...
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Documentation of the use of personified virtues ornamental bands in the prague printing offices of the time of Emperor Rudolf II
Borovková, Veronika ; Vlachová, Jana (advisor) ; Voit, Petr (referee)
The bachelor's thesis on the motif of allegories of Christian virtues in the form of female figures of Faith and Hope, Love and Justice, Wisdom and Temperance, Courage and Patience presents a mapping of the occurrence of the theme on ornamental bands in printing oficces in the time before the battle of Bílá hora. It is based on the premise of a traceable pioneering line of ornamental bands with the Virtues motif from the workshop of Michael Peterle Sr, inspired by the production of Melantrich and other collaborators and followers. It represents the popularity of the motif in art in general, with a subsequent narrowing to old prints and consideration of manuscript production. Includes a broader historical perspective and period context. The intention of the work was to evaluate the originality and artistic treatment of ornamental bounds and to contribute to a closer understanding of the transfer of decorative elements used by Czech early modern printers. The thesis is mainly prepared by the method of creative compilation of knowledge obtained through the study of relevant sources and historical analysis. To map the occurrence of ornamental bands with allegories I used the method of comparative analysis based on database searches. By comparing the traced ornamental bands, the starting position of...
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Reformational Iconography of Book Bindings of Catholic Liturgical Literature in Bohemia
Šourková, Michaela ; Voit, Petr (advisor) ; Marek, Jindřich (referee)
This thesis is focused mainly on reformational iconography used on the book bindings of catholical missales and breviaries in Bohemia until the first half of the 16th century. The theoretical part of thesis analyzes czech renaissance bookbinding during this era and use of reformational iconography on blind - stamped book bindings. The practical part of thesis answers the question whether the bookbinding of catholical missales and breviaries of this time carried any reformational iconography and was used by Utraquists during their masses. Rubbings of examined books were created during the writing. The research showed that the reformational iconography preserved on mentioned types of liturgical books only in one rare case.
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Utraquist oriented humanism in Bohemia exemplified in the literary works of Mikuláš Konáč z Hodiškova
Fernández Couceiro, Eduardo ; Voit, Petr (advisor) ; Nejedlý, Martin (referee)
Works of literary history dealing with 16th-century Czech literature often speak of the contrast between Latin (aristocratic, Catholic) and national (burgher, Utraquist) humanism. Representatives of these trends fall into two groups which are presented as antithetical, independent and closed, and literary evaluations often favour national humanism for extra-literary (religious, social, linguistic) reasons. In the first part of this paper, we indicate that this contrast does not hold valid completely because, on the one hand, there are numerous cases which may not be easily assimilated within this scheme and, on the other, Czech nationalist humanism depends entirely on Latin models (ancient, medieval, Renaissance). In the second part, we focus on the work of Mikuláš Konáč of Hodíškov, considered to be a typical representative of national humanism. An analysis of his literary and printing work reveals several aspects which lie outside the conventional framework of national humanism. In his literary works (chiefly translations), Konáč draws not from the national (Hussite) tradition, but from international European Latin scholarship. As regards his religious beliefs, he appeared to be a conservative Utraquist, but his attitudes changed with time: an overall tolerance of and sympathy towards the Unity of the...
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The Reader in the 16th centruy in the czech lands
Pišna, Jan ; Trávníček, Jiří (advisor) ; Voit, Petr (referee)
The work is a contribution to the research on contemporary reader of the 16th century in the Czech lands. On the basis of available materials, retrospective bibliography and existing research in comparison with foreign research and theoretical approaches to the matter of historical reader it deals with book culture with the focus on the reader (expansion of book print, censorship, changes of various parts of books, obtaining books and their placement in libraries, reading equipment), ways and character of reading (teaching reading, silent reading and reading aloud, reading out, repetitive, selective and extensive reading), with analysis of contemporary book production (religious literature, amusing reading, school literature) and contemporary canon of religious and school texts. On the basis of this knowledge, in the conclusion, we attempt to show the ways for future research on getting to know a contemporary reader, we are drawing attention especially to the absence of basic research on book culture. Keywords reader, reading, 16th century, book culture
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Biography and Works of Printer and Wood-Cutter Michael Peterle (†1588)
Tvrzníková, Jana ; Voit, Petr (advisor) ; Veselá, Lenka (referee)
Thesis about life and work of a printer and a woodcutter Michael Peterle is focused mainly on his assumed woodcutting activity (he was active between years 1562-1588). It is based on following assumption: although Michael Peterle did not sign his woodcuts, he illustrated portion of his prints. His printing office produced multitude of topical compositions and some interesting illustrated books. Photodocumentation and description of woodcutting illustrations and decoration (according to Soupis tisků Michaela Peterla staršího a jeho nástupců by Pravoslav Kneidl and more recent sources) was created during writing of this thesis. Attention was also focused on context of usage of illustrations. Afterwards Illustrations and decoration of Peterle's competition in the Czech Republic and Germany were examined. Conducted research showed, that Michael Peterle was not woodcutter, but only a colorist and a printer. This thesis provides another view on printing production in the second half of the 16th century. Key words: Peterle, Michael; printer; bookprinting; woodcut; illustration; decoration
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Castle Library Hrádek u Nechanic
Andresová, Klára ; Šípek, Richard (advisor) ; Voit, Petr (referee)
The present work focuses on the library in the state castle Hrádek u Nechanic, which was owned by the noble family of Harrach since its foundation until 1945. The introductory chapters describe the history of the Harrach family, with particular emphasis on the owners of the library, the history of the building and the book collection itself. Subsequently, the fund is characterized according to its chronological and language structure. The main body of the thesis deals with a thematic analysis and a provenance survey of Hrádek's library. This includes a description of the different types of bookplates and signatures of the owners of individual books, with a special focus on Jan Nepomuk of Harrach, who signed the largest number of books in Hrádek. Printed and handwritten dedications present in the fund are characterized as well. In conclusion all further notes in Hrádek's volumes of significance to the history of the individual books are described. In this work it is shown that the majority of the fund does not consist of books written in Czech, as it was claimed in some of older works dealing with this library, it is predominated by books written in German. Thematically, mainly fiction can be found in the library. There also are a number of periodicals and, in addition to printed books, several...
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The Castle Library of Mladá Vožice
Bendová, Lenka ; Voit, Petr (advisor) ; Šípek, Richard (referee)
(in English): The aim of this dissertation is arranging of the library fund of zámecká knihovna Mladá Vožice. The main purpose of this paper is to define this fund with respect to the provenience and its content. Contemporary conditions of the library are outlined in the Introduction. In the following chapters the history of the castle as well as the history of the noble families involved in establishing of this collection is being described. The main emphasis lays on the family of the collections founders -the family of Küenburg. Fourth chapter describes history of the library on the basis of provenance research. In accordance with this is the identification of the books owners from Küenberg, Spiegefeld and Schönfeld family. In the same manner different families and persons with no direct lineage to Küenbergs are characterized. At the same time this part of the work engages the characteristics of the fund in respect to particular members and partially also including the content characteristics, which are being elaborated properly by means of thematic groups in the following chapter. The information about arrangement of the fund are mentioned on the basis of the archive material and sources. Conclusion is made as a summary of the work, including the overview of its aims and achieved results.
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19th century book calendars and their bibliographical description
Bosáková, Zdenka ; Voit, Petr (advisor) ; Běhalová, Štěpánka (referee)
In the 19th century, there was a significant expansion of book calendars. During this period three standard parts within the issue were fixed. It was calendar part, literary part and the markets' calendar. According to the literary part content, there can be recognized three groups, professional calendars, professional calendars issued by a commercial publisher and universal calendars. There are some common characteristics within each type. Proffesional caalendars were issued by some club, usually just for a few years. The topic of these titles were in agreement with the club's interest. On the other hand, universal calenders were issued by some commercial publisher and they could reach up to over one hundred volumes. The third type was something in between of those two, some titles could change thein type from only professional to proffesional issued by some commercial publisher. Some of the calendars were issued in more than one parallel editions. The most common were small and large edition with the same content in principle, but different scope. Universal calendars were issued in up to 11 language editions, usually they were two, czech and german. It depended on the language structure of the readers. The least frequent type of parallel edition was a regional edition. It was probably mainly due...
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