Contents of the Meeting of the MOKKA-R Association on 17th December 2007

Contents of the Meeting of the MOKKA-R Association on 17th December 2007

Contents of the Meeting of the MOKKA-R Association on 17th December 2007
Edited by István Monok and Judit Nyerges
NSZL–HAS Institute for Literary Studies–MOKKA-R Association Budapest, 2008., 160 pages

[Booklets of Hungarian Book Review and MOKKA-R Association, 1.]
ISBN 978 963 200 549 2

Language: 
Hungarian
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The first item of the Booklets series is the contents of the meeting of MOKKA-R Association held on the 17th December 2007. Five papers are published in this volume, including three on typography.  Noémi Viskolcz’s essay is about of Matthaeus Cosmerovius, 17th century Viennese typographer of Polish descendance, his relations with Hungarian aristocrats and his Hungary-related assignments. Judit V. Ecsedy’s publication is entitled Hungarian Printer’s and Pubisher’ Devices in the 18th Century; Melinda Simon explores The Seeder’s Image in Printers’ and Publisher’s Devices; Róbert Oláh presents the library of János Süllye Püspöki, pastor of the Reformed Church in Mezőtúr; Krisztina Varsányi studies the form, function and distribution of the early press in her work The Meßrelatio, or Fair Booklets – the first printed news periodicals.

Booklets of Hungarian Book Review and MOKKA-R Association

For centuries, books were the only means of passing on cultural values, so the history of books is related to all the areas of cultural history. No wonder that a number of new institutions for presenting book culture history are currently being set up. As one of Europe’s oldest book history periodicals, Hungarian Book Review cannot assume the publication of all the writings on book history in Hungary, it has joined MOKKA-R (the old books section of Hungarian National Joint Catalogue Association), an entity founded in 1994 to coordinate the elaboration of old books. Our series of booklets presents primarily the lectures held at the MOKKA-R department sessions, but also gives room for works on book history with larger extent than publishable in Hungarian Book Review.

The publishers of the series are NSZL, the Institute for Literary Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Science, and MOKKA-R Association.