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Kasper Straube

Kasper Straube (also Kaspar or Caspar, also known as The Printer of the Turrecrematas) was a German 15th century printer from Bavaria.

He was active in Cracow between 1473 and 1477, decades before Johann Haller. His Latin almanac Calendarium cracoviense (Cracovian Calendar) of 1473 is regarded as the first work printed in Poland.

Other surviving printed works by Straube include:

  • Juan de Torquemada: Explanatio in Psalterium
  • Franciscus de Platea: Opus restitutionum usurarum et excommunicationum
  • Augustine of Hippo: Opuscula (de doctrina christiana, de praedestinatione sanctorum)
  • References

    Kasper Straube Wikipedia