Renesansinis Jono Bretkûno Postilës (1591) árišimas: Vlado Daumanto ir LMAB egzemplioriai
Renaissance bindings of Jonas Bretkunas' Postilla (1591): The copies of Vladas Daumantas and of the Library of Lithuanian Academy of Sciences in Vilnius

Summary/Abstract: In this article I analyze the bindings of two copies of Jonas Bretkûnas' Postilla (1591), which are kept in the Library of Lithuanian Academy of Sciences in Vilnius (LMAB) and in Kaunas Art Gallery of Mykolas Žilinskas. The provenance of both copies proves previous ownership by Königsberg libraries. Neither of the copies is rebound nor are the edges recut. The binding of the LMAB copy may have been repaired - the front paste down may have been pasted down at a later date. The bindings of both copies belong to the tradition of the German bookbinders of the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century. They are sewn onto thick double cords with thread. The wooden boards are covered in light brown bleached calf, and the books have metal clasps. Both covers are decorated with the same blind stamps: at the center, a small rectangular field is formed with a single plate and surrounded by two roulette borders (i.e. probably stamped from a wheel) and a single fillet. This pattern of a central rectangle surrounded by roundel borders corresponds to the decorative binding style that was most often used by the bookbinders who worked for the Castle Library in Königsberg from the fourth decade of the sixteenth century onwards.

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