Prace bibliograficzne Kazimierza Budzyka

Abstract

The subject of this paper are the bibliographical methods used by Kazimierz Budzyk, a distinguished Polish library and book scholar. An important part of the paper concerns information about the sources of his interest in Polish books, and especially in their older forms. The paper also contains a discussion of Budzyk’s views on bibliography as an auxiliary discipline of literature. The bibliography which Budzyk called a “book-knowledge” one allowed him to discover the dependencies of the form of the book with its production and consumption. The basic part of the paper presents the unique research methods used by Budzyk. As a bibliographer he was interested in the old art of printing, the passage of the book to the reader and its connections with the subsequent persons having influence on its functioning author, editor, corrector, printer, publisher, bookseller, librarian. The main aim of Budzyk’s was identification and chronlogization (relative and absolute) of the editions of such works as: Sowizrzal polski, Worek Judaszowy by Sebastian Fabian Klonowie, translations of works on law by Bartłomiej Groicki and the parliamentary constitutions of the 17th century. Budzyk’s outstanding achievement was the improvement of the methods which were earlier used only by Kazimierz Piekarski and the elaboration of his own methods (variant setting technique, “book-knowledge” works preceding the bibliographic listings, investigation of the so called “blocks”, etc.). Budzyk’s research range was very rich. It was based on typographic analysis (the method characteristic for bibliographical monograph) which consisted in examining and comparing print details (title pages, fonts, ornaments, etc.), in linguistic and orthographic analysis, historical and archival research. The particular research methods have been presented on the basis of Budzyk’s publications — “book-knowledge” dissertations, bibliographical monographs, and bibliographies which made it possible to grasp the differences in the analytical procedure of the researcher.