Kasper Miaskowski, *Collection of Rhythms* [1861]

Size: 20 cm

Volume: pp. 8, 307, [5].

Binding: period half-leather.

A 19th-century edition of *Zbiór rytmów* by Kasper Miaskowski, an early Baroque poet from Greater Poland who wrote in the spirit of the Counter-Reformation. The collection was first published in 1612 and expanded in 1622 in Poznań; this edition reproduces the text from 1622. The religious section contains Passion meditations, penitential works, and polemics against Protestantism, while the secular section features landowning, political, and occasional poetry, including depictions of the daily life of a Wielkopolska nobleman. Contemporaries placed Miaskowski on a par with Jan Kochanowski. The edition was prepared by Kazimierz Józef Turowski (1813–1874) as part of the “Biblioteka Polska” series, in which he made Old Polish texts available to the public.

Solid block. Period half-leather binding with natural discoloration.

An item from the 18th Polish Antiquarian Book Auction.