Vanished components : evidence for the partial survival of Tabula Cebetis Editions

The essay is devoted to the history of the printed production of the Tabula Cebetis in Krakow in the opening decades of the sixteenth century. The key sources for this study are texts and images bought not only by the learned, but also by students of the local univeristy and communal schools, objects which were relatively small, cheap and as such prone to destruction. Stuyding the few surviving copies of this text, this piece aims to recover (parts of) editions of the Tabula now lost but plausibly assumed to have been published: firstly, it traces an edition that has completely disappeared; secondly, it speculates about the original design and appearance of those that have been preserved in unique, incomplete copies; as a text separated from a lost picture it was once presumably joined with, and as an illustrated broadside initially produced to accompany the reading of the dialogue.

Artykuł poświęcono krakowskim wydaniom Tablicy Cebesa z pierwszych dziesięcioleci XVI wieku. Analiza zachowanych broszur i drzeworytów wskazuje, że materiał zabytkowy, którym dziś dysponujemy, to tylko ułamek ówczesnej produkcji wydawniczej. Wydania Tablicy skierowane były do uczniów i studentów, którzy zaczytywali dostępne im egzemplarze.