Personalităţi ale culturii române implicate în tipărirea cărţilor româneşti vechi (secolele al XVI-lea şi al XVII-lea
Personalities of Romanian Culture Involved in the Printing of Old Romanian Books ( between the 16th and 17th Century)

Summary/Abstract: The first Romanian printing institution was founded in the Romanian County in the first quarter of the 16th century. This is the time when the first book printed in the Romanian territory was given to the public. As time went by, more and more printing houses appeared, thus increasing the production of Romanian printed books. Then, like nowadays, printers felt the need to insert, within the book, references to its content, to the conditions the book appeared or some thoughts of those who had toiled to print the book addressed to the readers. This was also due to the fact that the majority of these books were religious books that had been either printed in Slavonic or translated into Romanian from original Slavonic or Greek editions. Our study is a corpus-based analysis of prefaces and epilogues. We have mainly focused on printings in the Romanian Counties from the beginning of the first printing house on Romanian territory, that is the first decade of the 16th century to the end of the 17th century, and try to identify the personalities that were involved in the printing process, to identify and stress those ones who toiled to print the books. Had it not been for their remarkable efforts, the Romanian culture would have lost a very important sector.

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