Kasper Straube (also Kaspar or Caspar, also known as The Printer of the Turrecrematas) was a German 15th-century printer from
Bavaria
Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a States of Germany, state in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the list of German states by area, largest German state by land area, comprising approximately 1/5 of the total l ...
.
He was active in
Kraków
, officially the Royal Capital City of Kraków, is the List of cities and towns in Poland, second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city has a population of 804,237 ...
between 1473 and 1477, decades before
Johann Haller. His
Latin
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almanac
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''
Calendarium cracoviense'' (Cracovian Calendar) of 1473
Norman Davies, God's Playground, vol.1, chapter 5
/ref> is regarded as the first work printed
Printing is a process for mass reproducing text and Printmaking, images using a master form or template. The earliest non-paper products involving printing include cylinder seals and objects such as the Cyrus Cylinder and the Cylinders of Nabon ...
in Poland
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.[Wieslaw Wydra, "Die ersten in polnischer Sprache gedruckten Texte, 1475-1520", '' Gutenberg-Jahrbuch'', Vol. 62 (1987), pp.88-94 (88)]
Other surviving printed works by Straube include:
* Juan de Torquemada: ''Explanatio in Psalterium''
* Franciscus de Platea: ''Opus restitutionum usurarum et excommunicationum''
* Augustine of Hippo
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: ''Opuscula (de doctrina christiana, de praedestinatione sanctorum)''
See also
* History of printing in Poland
* Incunable
An incunable or incunabulum (: incunables or incunabula, respectively) is a book, pamphlet, or broadside that was printed in the earliest stages of printing in Europe, up to the year 1500. The specific date is essentially arbitrary, but the ...
* Johannes Gutenberg
Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg ( – 3 February 1468) was a German inventor and Artisan, craftsman who invented the movable type, movable-type printing press. Though movable type was already in use in East Asia, Gutenberg's inven ...
* Movable type
Movable type (US English; moveable type in British English) is the system and technology of printing and typography that uses movable Sort (typesetting), components to reproduce the elements of a document (usually individual alphanumeric charac ...
* Printing
Printing is a process for mass reproducing text and images using a master form or template. The earliest non-paper products involving printing include cylinder seals and objects such as the Cyrus Cylinder and the Cylinders of Nabonidus. The ...
* Global spread of the printing press
* Florian Ungler
References
External links
Kasper Straube
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German printers
Printers of incunabula
15th-century German businesspeople
Businesspeople from Bavaria
Medieval German merchants