Tlačiar Jiří Melantrich z Aventina a jeho dielo Knijžka Potěssytedlná wssechniem Tiehotnym zachovaná vo fonde Slovenskej národnej knižnice
The Printer Jiří Melantrich z Aventina and his work Knijžka Potěssytedlná wssechniem Tiehotnym preserved in the Slovak National Library

Summary/Abstract: Jiří Melantrich, the Czech printer and publisher, started with a small personal printing office and gradually built a large printing and publishing enterprise of European significance. The Bible became the basis for his editing activities. He also focused on printing the humanistic literature and Latin poetic collections. Additionally, he published various guides and dictionaries, legal literature, as well as cheap entertaining books of folk readings. After 1576, he started cooperating with his son-in-law, Daniel Adam from Veleslavín, who took over the printing office after Melantrich´s death. Of no less importance were also his contacts with the court of the Czech governor, the Archduke Ferdinand II. Melantrich used these contacts for his business activities, as proved by an assortment of published books. However, in the collection of Slovak National Library, we can find works of this publisher also with other although no less interesting topics. One of the preserved Melantrich´s works is Knijžka Potěssytedlná wssechniem Tiehotnym, in which he deals mainly with the prayers for pregnant women, as well as for women after the pregnancy. Moreover, the book includes advice or obligations for men, instructing them how should they behave toward women during this period.

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