Publication details
Knižná väzba vybraných stredovekých rukopisov z Bratislavy, Kremnice, Košíc a Spiša
| Title in English | Bookbinding of selected medieval manuscripts from Bratislava, Kremnica, Košice and Spiš |
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| Year of publication | 2023 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Studia Historica Nitriensia |
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| Web | http://www.shnnitra.ff.ukf.sk/2040-2/ |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.17846/SHN.2022.27.2.532-565 |
| Keywords | Bookbinding; Bookbinding Workshops; Medieval Manuscripts; Kremnica; Bratislava Franciscans; Košice Dominicans; Spiš |
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| Description | The paper studies bookbindings of medieval manuscripts from three different collections: Parish Library in Kremnica, Franciscan Monastery in Bratislava and Batthyaneum Library in Alba Iulia. Viennese workshops especially Mathias and Blasius Coniugatus produced the most blind-tooled covers from Kremnica. However, it is possible that one bookbinding was made in a regional workshop. Only five codices from a library of Bratislava Franciscan Monastery are decorated by blind tooling technique. Three of them were identified. One was made again in Vienna by Mathias, second in Tegernsee Bavarian Benedictine monastery and third in a workshop Eichel-Lilie I. Batthyaneum Library in Alba Iulia owns many manuscripts from various institutions of Eastern Slovakia. A Dominican Monastery in Košice had its own bookbinding workshop. It is possible to distinguish three groups of its products. Manuscripts for the Dominican library were usually decorated with the stamp Maria. Dominicans worked also for other owners of books, and they use different stamps and compositions for them (a group with a headstamp and a probable group with dominant composition). Bookbindings from region Spiš can be divided into two other clusters apart of a known Levoča workshop. The first is characterized by a bouquet composition and the second by a stamp with an eagle. |
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