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On the aficionados of Gutenberg’s invention
Kraków undisputedly is in first place when it comes to printing in Poland. It is here that Poland’s first printed work was published in 1474.
It was a wall calendar that came from the printing press of Kasper Straube. A year later, the first Polish printed book came off the same press. It was Explanatio in Psalterium written in Latin. The year 1513 brought the first book written in Polish, and was entitled Raj duszny. Literally “Paradise of the soul”; it was a reworking of a popular prayer book written by Biernat of Lublin. Unfortunately, its only copy known in modern times was lost during the second world war. Interestingly, Florian Ungler, who was the first person to undertake printing books solely in Polish, was a Bavarian!
On the map: Bernardine Church. The cloister of the Bernardine Fathers was probably the sea of the first printing house in Kraków
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