Juan Planck
Juan Planck (also known as Juan Blanco, Johann Planck, Johannes Planck and possibly Johannes de Salsburga, Johann von Salzburg, fl. 1479-1484) was a fifteenth-century German cleric turned printer who became a founder of the printing business in Iberia.[1][2]
Career[]
Planck is thought to have collaborated with two other Germans, , and , with Botel as the master craftsman teaching the other two, as early at 1473, possibly in Barcelona.[3] In 1475, Planck published the first clearly dated printed book in Barcelona.[4] After Holz's death, the remaining two renewed their arrangement in Zaragoza in 1477.[5]
In 1477, Planck also began working with Pablo Hurus (with whose brother, Juan/Johann, he is not to be confused).[6][7]
Planck never had his own press and his name does not appear in any colophon, but a series of editions have been attributed to him such as Ethica ad Nicchomacum (1473), printed with Botel and Holtz, Vita et transitus sancti Hieronymi (c. 1476-77), printed together with Botel and Paul Hurus, or the Fables of Aesop (1482) with Paul Hurus.[8]
Identification with Johannes de Salsburga[]
Planck may or may not be identical with the Johannes de Salsburga who worked alongside Paul Hurus in Barcelona, appearing alongside him in the colophon to a 1475 Barcelona edition of Perottus's . (Little else is known about Johannes de Salsburga; another possible identification is with one Juan Gherlinc). Johannes de Salsburga also printed the following volumes in Barcelona in 1475:[9]
- In Catilinam orationes
- De Bello Iugurthino
- In C. Sallustium invectiva
- De coniuratione Catilinae
- Invectiva in M.T. Ciceronem
- Epitomae rerum Romanarum
External links[]
- Record in the Consortium of European Research Libraries Thesaurus
References[]
- ^ A Gordon Kinder, 'Printing and Reformation Ideas in Spain', in The Reformation and the Book, ed. by Jean-François Gilmont, trans. by Karin Maag (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998), pp. 292-318 (p. 292).
- ^ 'Impresor: Johannes Planck', in Corpus de Incunables de Clásicos Latinos en España.
- ^ 'Impresor: Johannes Planck', in Corpus de Incunables de Clásicos Latinos en España.
- ^ A Gordon Kinder, 'Printing and Reformation Ideas in Spain', in The Reformation and the Book, ed. by Jean-François Gilmont, trans. by Karin Maag (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998), pp. 292-318 (p. 292).
- ^ John Scott Lucas, Astrology and Numerology in Medieval and Early Modern Catalonia: The Tractat de prenostication de la vida natural dels hòmens, The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World, 18 (Leiden: Brill, 2003), 88 fn 26.
- ^ Jordi Torra and Montserrat Lamarca, Catàleg dels incunables de la Biblioteca de la Universitat de Barcelona (Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona, 1995), p. 290.
- ^ 'Impresor: Johannes Planck', in Corpus de Incunables de Clásicos Latinos en España.
- ^ 'Impresor: Johannes Planck', in Corpus de Incunables de Clásicos Latinos en España.
- ^ 'Impresor: Johann von Salzburg', in Corpus de Incunables de Clásicos Latinos en España.
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