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Blaž Baromić (before 1450 in
In the following year, he founded the Senj printing press together with Silvester Bedričić and Gašpar Turčić. On August 7, 1494, the first work of the printing house was completed, a
Baromić, Blaž , Hrvatska enciklopedija
{{DEFAULTSORT:Baromic, Blaz People from Senj 15th-century Croatian writers 16th-century Croatian people Croatian printers Printers of incunabula Croatian typographers and type designers Year of birth uncertain
Vrbnik
Vrbnik is a village and a municipality on the east coast of the island of Krk. The village is perched on a limestone outcropping 50 m above the Adriatic Sea.
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– after 1505 in Senj
Senj is a town on the upper Adriatic coast in Croatia, in the foothills of the Mala Kapela and Velebit mountains.
The symbol of the town is the Nehaj Fortress () which was completed in 1558. For a time this was the seat of the Uskoks, who were ...
) was a Croatian printer
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, scribe
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, founder of the Senj
Senj is a town on the upper Adriatic coast in Croatia, in the foothills of the Mala Kapela and Velebit mountains.
The symbol of the town is the Nehaj Fortress () which was completed in 1558. For a time this was the seat of the Uskoks, who were ...
printing press in 1494, the second oldest Croatian printing press. He is also known for his special typographic
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set known as ''Baromić technique of refracted ligature Ligature may refer to:
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s'', unique among incunabula
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s.
Biography
The exact date and place of birth is unknown, but he is assumed to have been born in Vrbnik on the island ofKrk
Krk (; ; ; ; archaic German: ''Vegl'', ; ) is a Croatian island in the northern Adriatic Sea, located near Rijeka in the Bay of Kvarner and part of Primorje-Gorski Kotar county. Krk is tied with Cres as the largest Adriatic island, depending o ...
. His first notable work is the Mavro breviary
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from 1460, which he wrote and illuminated. Between 1484 and 1505, he served as a canon
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of Senj.
Printing press
Shortly after, he became acquainted with the printing technology, for which he sought financial support in Senj. He then traveled toVenice
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where he learned the printing process and acquired all the printing tools needed. In 1493, he also printed his first breviary, under the guidance of Andrea Torresani.
In the following year, he founded the Senj printing press together with Silvester Bedričić and Gašpar Turčić. On August 7, 1494, the first work of the printing house was completed, a glagolithic
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missal
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, the second edition of the Missale Romanum. A further six titles were published before the press ceased operation in 1508. The most prominent of these was Spovid općena (1496), the first book printed in vernacular Chakavian
Chakavian or Čakavian (, , , proper name: or own name: ''čokovski, čakavski, čekavski'') is a South Slavic supradialect or language spoken by Croats along the Adriatic coast, in the historical regions of Dalmatia, Istria, Croatian L ...
dialect, and the only Croatian non-liturgical incunabula.
He is known for creating a unique method of composite ligature Ligature may refer to:
Language
* Ligature (writing), a combination of two or more letters into a single symbol (typography and calligraphy)
* Ligature (grammar), a morpheme that links two words
Medicine
* Ligature (medicine), a piece of suture us ...
s in printing; a technique of creating ligatures from fragments of letters which requires particular aesthetic sensitivity. This was taken from existing Glagolithic hand-written codices.
See also
* List of Glagolitic books * List of Glagolitic manuscriptsFootnotes
External links
Baromić, Blaž , Hrvatska enciklopedija
{{DEFAULTSORT:Baromic, Blaz People from Senj 15th-century Croatian writers 16th-century Croatian people Croatian printers Printers of incunabula Croatian typographers and type designers Year of birth uncertain