- Kasper Straube
Kasper Straube (also known as The Printer of the Turrecrematas), was a German printer of the 15th century. Having been active in
Cracow between 1473 and 1477 before decades beforeJohann Haller , his Latinalmanac "Calendarium cracoviense" (Cracovian Calendar) of 1473 [Norman Davies, God's Playground, vol.1, chapter 5 [http://books.google.com/books?id=b912JnKpYTkC&pg=PA118&dq=%22Golden+Age%22+author:%22norman+davies%22&sig=S0kmJEBWyWAXLdK7gGMzmSaZw-M] ] is regarded as the first work printed inPoland .Wieslaw Wydra, "Die ersten in polnischer Sprache gedruckten Texte, 1475-1520", "Gutenberg-Jahrbuch", Vol. 62 (1987), pp.88-94 (88)]A Dutch printing shop known by the name 'Typographus Sermonum Papae Leonis I.' might have been established even earlier that year on Polish territory, but its exact location has yet to be determined.Wieslaw Wydra, "Die ersten in polnischer Sprache gedruckten Texte, 1475-1520", "Gutenberg-Jahrbuch", Vol. 62 (1987), pp.88-94 (88)]
Other surviving print works by the Bavarian Straube include
* Joannes de Turrecrematas: "Explanatio in Psalterium"
* Franciscus de Platea: "Opus restitutionum usurarum et excommunicationum"
* Augustinus: "Opuscula (de doctrina christiana, de praedestinatione sanctorum)"References
See also
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Incunabula
*Johannes Gutenberg
*Movable type
*Printing
*Spread of printing External links
* [http://aquarius.wzks.uj.edu.pl:8080/2004/lha23/Strony/Straube.htm Kasper Straube] pl icon
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