THE NEWSPAPER PRINTING COMMUNICATION OF SENJ Cover Image

NOVINARSKA TISKOSLOVNA KOMUNIKACIJA SENJA
THE NEWSPAPER PRINTING COMMUNICATION OF SENJ

Author(s): Stjepan Špalj
Subject(s): Museology & Heritage Studies, Preservation, Local History / Microhistory, 15th Century, 16th Century
Published by: Senjsko muzejsko društvo i Gradski muzej Senj
Keywords: the newspaper printing communication of Senj;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this work is to interpret the news contained in colophons of the Senian glagolitic printing-house works (1494 - 1508). The author expounds the printing-house work, a way the printing was done, the organization of work itself, workers and the interpretation of typogram. The author further gives the exact meanings of word's colophon and impress and, according to newspaper principles, elaborates the colophon news. The printing-house and colophons are placed historical developmental phase of the Croatian and world journalism. At first they were not contemplated as the newspaper materials, but they have all the elements of the news as a journalistic type. Afterwards followed the printed books, which provided further information's. intention was in the first place to inform wide audience who, where and when were the protagonists of the events, which were their intentions and what was that urging them to write, which in fact is an essence of the journalistic news. Therefore they cam be considered the forerunners of the newspaper and printing communications as comprehended today.

  • Issue Year: 28/2001
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 65-78
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Croatian